Apple Pay (Wallet)

AVC · April 11, 2016, 7:48am

I use Stocard for just this purpose It works fine for loyalty cards that use barcodes.

Dan · April 11, 2016, 9:49am

I use that for my Village Cinema membership, but because we don’t have Apple Pay, I have to manually open the wallet app on my Watch.

It’s not a HUGE deal but, double tapping the side button to access any of your various memberships and bank cards is so much better

Dan · April 11, 2016, 12:39pm

So I found an article with more info on what you had found out, check this out:

I suggest anyone here with an ANZ card gives this a try, and let us know if anything at all happens.

tcn33 · April 11, 2016, 11:05pm

I don’t especially want to go to ANZ but I will if I have to.

Dan · April 11, 2016, 11:21pm

Hopefully this leak means that all the major banks will jump on, but same as you if it’s just ANZ, I’ll open an account with them specifically for spending

AVC · April 11, 2016, 11:46pm

Didn’t work for me with an ANZ issued MasterCard

Dan · April 11, 2016, 11:58pm

Apparently at least in some of the cases, it was Canadians who entered in the details.

So, if you change your account to Canada temporarily, it might repeat. If you can be bothered going to all that effort.

Dan · April 12, 2016, 12:00am

Also, in the cases where people got texts and emails, they still weren’t actually able to add it and still got the rejection. So you might receive the text and email in a bit.

tcn33 · April 12, 2016, 12:06am

That’s pretty similar to what happened when people tried to add an Amex before the official date. Emails and messages but couldn’t actually add the card. Judging by that it’s probably soon.

Just applied for an ANZ debit card account, just in case.

Dan · April 12, 2016, 1:19am

Really? That gives me more hope then, yeah good plan, I reckon at this rate we will have it mid year at the latest.

huy · April 12, 2016, 1:53am

I tried with ANZ Frequent Flyer Black AMEX and it failed too. Back to my Qantas Discovery (issued by AMEX) it is.

Dan · April 12, 2016, 3:40am

Would it be theoretically possible for you to change your iTunes account region to Canada and then try registering again? That’s how it was done in that article, someone in Canada tried to add their Australian friends card

mitty · April 12, 2016, 4:54am

I think by “Change to Canada” they just mean the region on your phone.

Dan · April 12, 2016, 7:47am

Yes, the region of the phone depends on the details in the iTunes account

bennyling · April 12, 2016, 8:14am

What?

Dan · April 12, 2016, 8:27am

You can technically change the region there but I’m assuming that for Apple Pay to act as if it’s in Canada, the account itself would have to be changed to Canadian. Similar to what we do when we want to download an app from the American App Store

mitty · April 12, 2016, 8:44am

Nope. You can add a US card in Australia if you have one. It’s got nothing to do with the iTunes account.

Dan · April 12, 2016, 8:50am

Well I’m not 100% on it but there’s some reason that a person in Canada was able to add an Australian bank card (or try to) and then get the text and email. So anything is worth trying, something caused it to trigger them.

Edit: Grammar/Spelling

Dan · April 13, 2016, 9:26am

I’ve been reading around a bit and apparently American Express support for Apple Pay in Australia was announced at the apple quarterly earnings and the next quarterly earnings report is happening on 25th April, fingers crossed it gets announced then

Gumby · April 14, 2016, 2:52am

I just tried to add my ANZ issued AMEX using both Australia and Canada as the region but no luck.