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BEST (and WORST) UK bank apps for the iPhone
As early as 2014, I looked at all the important British financial applications and assessed them from poor to good. What is most amazing is that the many libraries that had the poorest applications are now the libraries that have the most upgraded applications. TSB Mobile Banking par TSB Banque, Lloyds Banque Mobile Banking par Lloyds Lloyds et Halifax Mobile Banking par Halifax.
I group these three apps together because they are all exactly the same App that just skinned for each bench. To be fair, they were significantly enhanced during 2014, when they were, when they were just mobiles integrated into an application. In all three applications the used frameworks is slowly and faulty.
But the last thing in the casket for these three applications is that they don't actually work with the iPhone's Touch ID touch screen to make it easy to securely log in. Yes, even after two years these applications still need to be PINed. Believe it or not, logging in with a personal identification number (PIN) is actually an improvement on what happened when you had to type in a user name and passcode each and every day to log in.
Nevertheless, I still find the app' s styling a little too web-like, but on the positive side they are actually well thought-out applications in view of what is offered inside. Secondly - and you will find that this will be a reoccurring issue - Nationwide still does not have Touch ID registration so it will be at the bottom of this mailing together with others who do not.
At the same time, it offers some good, fundamental functions that any bank application should have. On the inside, you can review your electricity, saving, credit card and mortgages bank transaction, statement and balance checks, move funds between bank and home bank deposits, make payment to your customers, review and reverse debit and normal payment history. A further neat little thing is the application that lets you quickly and simply see your saving interest rate and administer your overdrafts.
One of the better applications in 2014 has gone down in the chart for one reason: NO NO ID TOUCH assistance. Note: NoTouchID = an application that is behind with time. Apart from that, this is a business application that really does take full benefit of the cell phones. Does most of the things the other bank applications do - verifies account and statement accounts, makes payment and transfer, finds branch offices - but the true reasons why this application is better than the above is that it allows you to setup notifications that are sent to your cell phones when your credit drops below or above a certain amount, and it also allows you to view missing or stolen credit or debit card information.
Replying to loss or theft is something we will do from our mobile phone as soon as we realize the card is gone, so it makes good banking sense to add an easy-to-use function for notifying banks of missed maps to their applications. There is no more important news I can think of than one from my own banking institution that my credit is below a certain limit.
Since the last raid on the bank application, Santander has added the possibility for all your bale layers to view your loans on the account start page. Now we have created the basis for a good Banking application. First Direct and HSBC both provide Touch ID functionality! Wellcome to 2016, people - we really appreciate that.
Both of these applications are also grouped because they are basically the same application that has only been redesigned for each individual bench. There is the default PIN record that every banks application should have, and when you login, you can see and control all your account information. You can also use the applications to make payments and make money transfer directly from the inside.
Or you can send funds to anyone in your contact lists using only their telephone number (a function that some of the applications on this page now support). I' m actually a larger fan of Santander's app's look and feel, but give these two Apps Touch ID log files they' re better overall.
From The Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest apps we are in the "great" group. Again, these are just a redesigned versions of the other ones, but both feature Touch ID as well as a 5-digit security login point that allows you to login and view all your account information in one place (current, credit and savings).
One really neat thing about these applications is that they also allow you to get a 4-digit passing code when you are at an ATM and notice that you forgot your credit card. A further astonishing function is known as " Save Your Contact ". "With this all you need to have is the telephone number of someone who also uses the application, and you can immediately mail them funds that will be directly paid into their banking inbox.
It is one of the few bench applications that can be used universally so that it also works on the iPad. When there is a golden level for wireless applications, you can still find it in the Barclays Wireless application from Barclays National. It' s so well crafted and feature-rich that I would immediately change from any other UK financial institution if I wasn't already a member.
While Barclay on the other hand, amazingly, does not even have Touch ID log-in supported - a seldom mistake for the banks, as they are so advanced in terms of other functions. It' s the other functions that give this one application a Touch ID passport. In fact, I haven't signed in to my Barclays accounts since I downloaded this application.
My entire bank transactions are handled through her portable application. It' s so feature-rich that you can even add an individual picture for each individual user so you can tell them apart more quickly. It even contains a PIN that businesses are used to. Obviously Barclays has invested a great deal of effort and cash in his portable effort and this is evident.
Barclays Mobile Banking application regularly gets updated with not only Bugfixes, but also important new functionality - most recently the possibility to take and store photos of and safe finance files in Barclays own cloudIt solution. If Barclay's would just include Touch ID functionality, you could call this application "perfect".....
Naturally, the UK's best bank application rankings could undergo radical changes in the next few month. Depending mainly on which bank will not currently take full benefit of Apple's Touch ID accessibility - a user friendly and secure user experience that is appreciated by many.