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GPay App and P2P Payments Will Stop Working in the US This June

An anonymous reader shares a report: When Google Wallet launched in 2022, Google kept the "GPay" app around in a handful of countries. The company announced today that the old Google Pay app is soon going away in the US. That app, which appears as "GPay" on your Android homescreen, was Google's prev...

That app, which appears as "GPay" on your Android homescreen, was Google's previous vision for mobile payments and finance. It was "designed around your relationships with people and businesses" with conversation-like threads serving as a purchase history, while keeping track of your spending was another big aspect. As part of the app going away, Google is shutting down peer-to-peer payments that let you send, request, or receive money from others in the US.

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