ExxonMobil’s Speedpass+ app has added support for Apple Watch payments, letting you charge your gas bill with a tap on your wrist. The update, added to the Speedpass+ app this morning, will let any Apple Watch owner authorize a payment using whatever stored option they choose, be that a manually inputted credit card or via Apple Pay. ExxonMobil first added Apple Pay support to Speedpass+ in March of last year, and the new updates should work at more than 10,000 Exxon and Mobil gas stations in the US, the company says.

While this should be useful for the eager mobile payments fan, the Apple Watch is still in a peculiar position. Apple’s watchOS quietly lost app support in the last…

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