iPhone cameras to soon scan & save credit card information

NEW DELHI: Apple announced a slew of features with iOS 8, but more are being discovered as developers go through the new operating system’s software development kit. One of the new features that iOS 8 will bring to iPhones is to scan and save credit card information by simply clicking a photo.
Technology website 9Tto5Mac has discovered this new feature, wherein users simply need to take a photo of their credit card with the iPhone’s camera to input the information while making a transaction in Safari browser.Once the picture is taken, Apple’s character recognition technology will fill credit card details in the text fields of the website.
The option will pop-up each time a user makes a transaction on an e-commerce website via Safari.

Users will also be able to take the credit card’s photo for information and save it for later use. They can simply go to the ‘Passwords & Autofill’ settings to save the data of a new credit card.
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