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by sbysb 1535 days ago
This must be regional because I have been using a chip-and-pin card for the last 5 years and I cannot for the life of me remember the last time I had to physically swipe the card. Tap support is definitely still spotty but that is something that is more of a convenience than a security issue
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I also can't remember the last time I had to swipe a card where I am in the US. I also prefer using Apple Pay, and tbh, can't remember the last time I had to use my physical card.
It's still relatively common to have to swipe cards at gas stations in the US when you're buying gas. And a fair amount of the parking meters may still be on swipe (NYC meters outside of Manhattan come to mind). The places that haven't upgraded are ones with a lot of POS stations to upgrade.
Yep these two places are very common to be swipe only. I have to go a human teller at <massive and famous hospital> to pay for parking and the cc machine will still only read swipes.
Also US based here, and can't remember the last time I had to swipe.

There are even places with no swipe, where we can only use chip.