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The Apple Card Will Finally Roll Out in August

Apple's credit card is launching in partnership with Goldman Sachs and Mastercard. You'll be able to sign up for it over the iPhone Wallet app.

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The Apple Card is going to launch next month.

On Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed the coming launch, which had previously been pegged to some time in the summer.

"Thousands of Apple employees are using the Apple Card every day in a beta test and we will begin to roll out the Apple Card in August," he said in an earnings call.

Apple's credit card is launching in partnership with Goldman Sachs and Mastercard. You'll be able to sign up for it over the iPhone Wallet app, and it'll work wherever Apple Pay is accepted. You'll also get a company-designed "titanium card," so you can use the service at stores that don't accept Apple Pay.

The company's credit card will offer you 2 percent cash back on Apple Pay purchases, and 1 percent cash back on non-Apple Pay transactions. The highest 3 percent cash back offering will occur when you buy something from the Apple Store, Apple.com or iTunes.

The company is getting into the credit card business when it's increasingly relying on services for financial growth. In the fall, it plans on launching a new game subscription service called Apple Arcade, and a video streaming offering called Apple TV+.

The company's iPhone, on the other hand, remains Apple's biggest moneymaker. However, demand for the product has been declining as prices for flagship smartphones have reached around $1000 or more. In this year's second quarter, Apple's revenue from iPhones sales fell 12 percent year-over-year. Overall, the company's net income dropped about 13 percent from same period a year ago.

However, Apple saw a bright spot in sales for its wearable products, which include the Apple Watch and the Airpods. Revenue from wearables was up 48 percent year-over-year.

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Michael Kan

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I've been a journalist for over 15 years. I got my start as a schools and cities reporter in Kansas City and joined PCMag in 2017, where I cover satellite internet services, cybersecurity, PC hardware, and more. I'm currently based in San Francisco, but previously spent over five years in China, covering the country's technology sector.

Since 2020, I've covered the launch and explosive growth of SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service, writing 600+ stories on availability and feature launches, but also the regulatory battles over the expansion of satellite constellations, fights with rival providers like AST SpaceMobile and Amazon, and the effort to expand into satellite-based mobile service. I've combed through FCC filings for the latest news and driven to remote corners of California to test Starlink's cellular service.

I also cover cyber threats, from ransomware gangs to the emergence of AI-based malware. In 2024 and 2025, the FTC forced Avast to pay consumers $16.5 million for secretly harvesting and selling their personal information to third-party clients, as revealed in my joint investigation with Motherboard.

I also cover the PC graphics card market. Pandemic-era shortages led me to camp out in front of a Best Buy to get an RTX 3000. I'm now following how the AI-driven memory shortage is impacting the entire consumer electronics market. I'm always eager to learn more, so please jump in the comments with feedback and send me tips.

The Best Tech I've Had:

  • My first video game console: a Nintendo Famicom
  • I loved my Sega Saturn despite PlayStation's popularity.
  • The iPod Video I received as a gift in college
  • Xbox 360 FTW
  • The Galaxy Nexus was the first smartphone I was proud to own.
  • The PC desktop I built in 2013, which still works to this day.

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