One of the most straightforward ways to use Apple Pay is from your Apple Watch, in order to add new credit or debit cards to the device, all you have to do is follow a bunch of simple instructions, and you’re good to go.
Setting up and adding cards to Apple Pay for Apple Watch
In order to use Apple Pay and make a payment on Apple Watch, the bank that you are working with has to support the payment services for starters.
You will be able to find the latest data on participating Apple Pay banks by heading over to the official Apple Support website.
There’s another possibility as well: you can follow the directions to add new cards in order to confirm whether the back that you are working with supports the protocol or not.
Anyway, here are all the required steps:
- Open the Watch app on your iPhone.
- Tap the My Watch tab.
- Tap Wallet & Apple Pay.
- Tap Add Card under Payment Cards.
- Tap Continue.
- Tap Enter Card Details Manually or hold your iPhone over your credit card in order to scan the data.
- Add your card’s Security Code.
- Tap Next.
- Tap Add.
- Tap Confirm for confirming the terms and conditions for your bank.
- Tap Text Message, Email, or Call to send yourself a verification message.
- Tap Next.
- Enter the Verification code you received.
- Tap Next.
- Tap Done when you’re all done.
After following all these simple steps, the result is that your bank is available with Apple Pay on your Apple Watch. Depending on the bank, you’ll receive confirmation via phone, email, letter and so on.
How to use Apple Pay on your Apple Watch
Here’s what you have to do in order to make a payment with Apple Pay with your Apple Watch via your card:
Double-click the side button and hold the display of the watch within a few cms of the contactless reader.
When you feel a gentle tap, the payment is confirmed. Push the Digital Crown to go back to your watch face. That’s all.
After finishing Theatrical Journalism at the Faculty of Theatre and Television in Cluj-Napoca, Rada reviewed movies, books, theatre pieces and she also wrote articles from the IT niche as a content editor for software producers. At the moment, she is working with various online advertising firms.