What you need to know
- Lime has added an App Clip to its iPhone app to make it easier to hire a scooter.
- Users won't need to have the Lime app installed to hire their ride.
Another iOS 14 feature doing the business.
Scooter hire company Lime has added a new feature to its iPhone app that makes it easier and quicker to pay for a scooter than ever before. By adding an App Clip to its app, Lime now allows users to pay for their scooter hire without actually having the app installed on their iPhone.
First spotted by The Verge, the feature makes use of iOS 14's App Clips feature. That allows users to scan a QR code on a scooter and have the App Clip spring to life. From there, everything behaves like a real app – including payment processing. App Clips are great because it means users don't need to download huge apps just to get whatever they're trying to do, done.
Customers who don't have the Lime app on their phone can still ride by taking a photo of the scooter's QR code and paying through Apple Pay or Google Pay. Lime says it will be a useful tool for first-time riders who don't want to commit or don't have space on their phones. The functionality works by temporarily downloading a portion of Lime's normal app. It uses the Instant Apps feature on Android, while on iPhones it makes use of the new App Clips feature, which arrived last year as part of iOS 14.
Users will need to have an iPhone running iOS 14 or later in order to enjoy this new feature, of course. Any of the very best iPhones available today will do the job, as will whatever Apple announced later this year, too.
The latest Lime app update also adds support for reservations as well as recommendations for scooters based on their battery levels, too.
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