Here's how much you can now spend with Apple Pay in the UK

Apple Pay, the contactless payment service that launched alongside the iPhone 6, was previously constrained to payments of just £20 ($30) but the UK Cards Association, an industrial card payment group, has raised the limit of contactless card payments to £30 ($46).

The UK Cards Association has acknowledged that contactless cards have been widely adopted and see a very low rate of fraudulent activity. According to the group, customers with a contactless card spent more in the first six months of 2015 than in the whole of 2014 showing a huge amount of growth.

Transaction volume from contactless cards, according to the association, jumped from £287 million ($441 million) in January to £567 million ($872 million) in June, giving a six-month total of £2.5 billion ($3.8 billion).

Apple Pay was introduced to the UK in July and is available in 250,000 stores with the backing of eight regional banks with more, such as Lloyds, coming soon.

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