I love using Apple Pay in stores because it is such a quick and secure way to pay for items. Two years ago, Apple debuted Express Transit with Apple Pay, which allows you to pay for a subway ride in New York (and some other cities) by simply holding your iPhone close to the contactless reader at a turnstile.
If you don’t live in New York but you still want to see how easy it is to use the system, Chance Miller of 9to5Mac noticed that Apple just added an Augmented Reality experience to its webpage dedicated to the New York MTA transit system. Scroll down that webpage to the section that says “Take a virtual trip with Pay” and then tap the link that says Experience in AR. When you do so, you will place a picture of a turnstile wherever you are in the real world, and then you can place your iPhone on the reader to to pretend to pay.
The whole thing is a little silly, but after you do it, you will definitely understand from first-hand experience how easy it is to pay for a subway ride with an iPhone. And the next time that you are in New York or another city that supports this system, you will know exactly what to do. According to this page, you can currently use Express Transit with certain transit systems in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, Portland, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C. Outside of the U.S., you can use Express Transit with certain systems in China, Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, and parts of the United Kingdom.