This lets you pay with PayPal just about anywhere.

PayPal

This alone is pretty neat.

you could use separate cards to budget or to compartmentalize spending.

Person paying at a coffee shop using Apple Pay

Using Apple Pay.Dan Burton / Unsplash

you might also easily view your spending and balance in the familiar PayPal app.

Say what you want about PayPal, but its app is way better than most banking apps.

Which is pretty much anywhere that accepts cards with a chip-and-pin system.

PayPal app on a phone

PayPal App.PayPal

This is the same as using any other credit or debit card with Apple Pay.

Pay at restaurants, withdraw cash from your PayPal account at compatible ATMs, and so on.

Apple Pay Is Safer

Apple Pay is already a kind of virtual card.

PayPal Debit card on a phone

PayPal Debit Card on App.PayPal

That’s protection number one.

Number two is biometrics.

But is there any security advantage of using PayPal and Apple Pay together?

In payment security terms, you’re probably alreadymore than covered by Apple Payalone.

But for convenience and flexibility, it’s a hard combo to beat.