Samsung Wallet Has Your Back This Festive Season

Allaying Consumers’ Fears with Advanced Security Features: Samsung Wallet Remains the Trusted Choice

With the Festive Season fast approaching, Samsung’s advanced and innovative security features continue to make Samsung Wallet – the trusted choice for secure transactions and peace of mind.

Samsung Wallet is one of the easiest and safest ways to pay both online and offline using any of your eligible Samsung Galaxy smartphones and wearables^[1]. This digital wallet lets you securely organise all your essentials into a single app; from important credentials like credit cards, bank cards and passwords to on-the-go items like house keys, car keys, tickets and boarding passes when in transit as well as gift cards. You may find yourself navigating through a crowded mall during the busy holiday shopping season. Instead of fumbling through your wallet or handbag for cards, you can pull out your Galaxy phone, open Samsung Wallet, and tap to make an easy, secure payment. Whether online or in-store, Samsung Wallet keeps everything organised and accessible, removing the need to carry physical cards or cash.

Nowadays, there’s absolutely no need to carry around a million different belongings or worry about leaving anything behind. With Samsung Wallet security features, you can secure it all behind a PIN number or personal biometric data, so only you – can access it^[2]. Samsung Wallet is able to create a secure environment that allows you to make payments or manage your data with all your personal information well protected. When on a family holiday for instance, you can use your Galaxy Watch to pay for dinner while on the go. With your watch linked to Samsung Wallet, you wouldn’t need to carry your phone or wallet, and can go about your business confident in the knowledge that your payment information is safe and secure with biometric protection and the use of PIN numbers.

All eligible Galaxy smartphones are able to deliver complete wallet experience from payment to scanning. Also, you can now effortlessly tag Samsung Wallet with any eligible Galaxy Watch without using your smartphone. Samsung has continued to take its online security measures to the next level by using a variety of safety methods. Samsung Knox provides solid security and data protection from devices to the entire system, ensuring that your privacy is secured, at all times. You can also store and check your personal data and digital assets to make payments in an easy and safe way.

Samsung Knox offers the best level of security by constantly monitoring and protecting your phone from malware and other threats. For those who are looking for superior security, Samsung Knox includes a safety design where highly sensitive operations and information, such as fingerprint and payment information, are kept in a separate computer area known as a ‘secure environment’.

You can rest assured that there’s end-to-end secure transfer of sensitive data between Samsung Wallet and its partners. Normal applications or malware have no access to the information inside it^[3]. On top of this, there’s also tokenisation – a method of replacing your sensitive payment information (Card Number, Expiration Date and Security code to name a few) with a device-specific ‘Token’, which acts as a surrogate value. In mobile payments, Tokens are used to protect your payment information and reduce the security risks inherent to plastic cards.

Samsung has now also added extra layers of digital security to protect your payments, whether you’re online shopping or in-store browsing. And with Samsung Pay, one of the most convenient and secure mobile payment and digital wallet services, you can now tap to pay with your device, making in-store transactions quick, safe and contactless.

For an even more added layer of security, each transaction with Samsung Pay is covered by your bank’s fraud protection and offers authentication via fingerprint, pin number or iris scan. This ensures that your card information is encrypted in a separate and secure data vault^[4].

Say you’re attending a festive gathering with friends at a local restaurant and realise you left your wallet at home, you need not worry because Samsung Wallet on your Galaxy phone is all you need. You can tap to pay using Samsung Pay, which requires your fingerprint for authentication. The transaction is not only fast but also protected by multiple layers of security, ensuring that your payment information remains private.

Other exciting and innovative security features that Samsung has introduced, include the ability to unlock your car safely with an easy tap. If your car supports the NFC function, then you can unlock it by simply holding your smartphone to the door handle. Now you have a key that is safe, secure and always around when you need it^[5].

So if you’re looking to upgrade to a digital wallet for a faster, safer and easier everyday routine, Samsung Wallet is available on all eligible Galaxy smartphones and Galaxy Watch running Android 9 or higher⁶. This digital Wallet can be accessed easily by swiping up on the phone’s screen to open the Samsung Pay screen and then tapping Samsung Wallet.

And, for more information on Samsung Wallet’s innovative safety features, you can click on this link below: https://www.samsung.com/za/apps/samsung-wallet

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^[1]Terms & Conditions Apply. Samsung Galaxy devices & wearables supporting Samsung Wallet  include: Galaxy S24 Ultra, Galaxy S24, Galaxy S24+, Galaxy S24 FE, Galaxy S23 Ultra, Galaxy S23, Galaxy S23 FE, Galaxy S23+, Galaxy S22 Ultra, Galaxy S22, Galaxy S22+, Galaxy S21 5G, Galaxy S21 FE 5G, Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G, Galaxy S21+ 5G, Galaxy S20 FE, Galaxy S20+, Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20 Ultra, Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10e, Galaxy S10+, Galaxy S8, Galaxy S9, Galaxy S9+, Galaxy S7, Galaxy S7 Edge, Galaxy S8+, Galaxy Z Flip6, Galaxy Z Fold6, Galaxy Z Flip5, Galaxy Z Fold5, Galaxy Z Flip4, Galaxy Z Fold4, Galaxy Z Flip3 5G, Galaxy Z Fold3 5G, Galaxy Note20 Ultra 5G, Galaxy Note20, Galaxy Note20 5G, Galaxy Note20 Ultra, Galaxy Note10+, Galaxy Note10, Galaxy Note9, Galaxy Note8, Galaxy-A25 5G, Galaxy-A35 5G, Galaxy-A55 5G, Galaxy-A15 5G, Galaxy-A14, Galaxy-A24, Galaxy-A34 5G, Galaxy-A54 5G, Galaxy-A14 5G, Galaxy-A23, Galaxy-A33 5G, Galaxy-A53 5G, Galaxy-A73 5G, Galaxy-A32, Galaxy-A22, Galaxy-A22 5G, Galaxy-A32 5G, Galaxy-A52, Galaxy-A52s 5G, Galaxy-A72, Galaxy-A13 5G, Galaxy-A52 5G, Galaxy-A21s, Galaxy-A31, Galaxy-A71, Galaxy Note10 Lite, Galaxy-A30s, Galaxy-A30, Galaxy-A51, Galaxy-A70, Galaxy-A80. On Galaxy Watch6 and above: Users can install the watch plug-in through the Galaxy Wearable app and on Galaxy Watch5 and below: Users can install the plug-in through the Galaxy Wearable app to use Samsung Pay

^[2]Availability of Samsung Wallet and its features may vary by country/region, device model, carrier and firmware version and are subject to change.

^[3]Feature availability may vary depending on country/region. Please check the available features for the Samsung Wallet in your country by opening the Wallet application.

^[4]Supported items may vary depending on country/region.

^[5]Feature currently only applicable to BMW or Mini Coopers in South Africa. Support for digital car keys may vary based on vehicle. Please contact your vehicle manufacturer for more information.

^[6]All services, features, functionalities, contents, user interfaces and benefits described herein may change without notice, and their availability may vary by country/region, device model and OS version. Paid services are available after purchase.