Can I put my Oyster card on my phone?
Can I put my Oyster card on my phone? You must have a contactless and Oyster online account to use the app. The app will only work with contactless cards and/or Oyster cards; not Oyster photocards or other smartcards. You can only use the app if your Oyster card shows a 'D' symbol in the bottom left of the reverse side, as shown in the below image.
Do you need a photo for an Oyster card?
No photo ID is required when you buy an Oyster card, except where children are concerned.
Do you need an Oyster card or can you use contactless?
Contactless cards work in exactly the same way as Oyster cards and you save the £7 fee for the latter. BUT you need a card for each person - you can't pay for two with one card.
Does anyone still use Oyster card?
About a quarter of contactless payments are now made using either Apple or Google Pay, a figure that is ticking up all the time. In contrast, only 5.7m of the tens of millions of Oyster cards in circulation are still active. And as for paper tickets, in the past month just 1.7% of passengers bought them.
Do Oyster cards get demagnetized?
Oystercards don't use magnetic strips - they use a chip - therefore there's nothing to get demagnetised. And they don't have any power source on them, so they can't lose their power. Hmmm, I did wonder that, but I've never had one (live outside london so get paper travelcards).
Is Oyster cheaper than buying a ticket?
You can add money to an Oyster card or use contactless (card or device) straight away. You only pay for the journeys you make and it's cheaper than buying a paper single or return ticket (train companies may offer special deals on some journeys).
Is Oyster card cheaper than pay as you go?
It's more than 50% cheaper than buying a paper Travelcard or single tickets with cash. Oyster cards have a daily price cap – once you reach this limit, you won't pay for any additional journeys (excluding Thames Clippers River Bus where there is no capping).