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The top two financial activities of smartphone users are checking account status or purchase history and making payments to a business.

Google/Ipsos, U.S., "How People Use Their Phones for Finance Activities," n=500, smartphone users aged 18–64 who used a smartphone for finance in the past month, Oct. 2016.

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