Apple Pay in Apple Watch stopped accepting my cards
Some time ago I raised here an issue I have with my Apple Watch Series 8 (cellular 45 mm) - 1 card could not be added to Apple Pay on the Watch, yet working on my iPhone. (Thread here) I followed suggestions from here (region, local settings, VPN, physical location, contacting bank etc.) but that did not solve the issue and I just gave up - it was one card of 6 I have and not the most important one. OK, life goes on.
But now I received a new card from my bank and that could not be added, either (same story - no problem on the iPhone). Strange.
So I contacted Apple, spent over an hour with 3 support reps (including one senior Apple Pay support rep) - did restarts, resets, factory resets… result? Now I can’t add any of my cards, not even those that worked before. So I am getting a feeling that since some moment in time (likely between spring and summer this year) I can no longer add cards to Apple Pay but only on my watch. And those are 4 different banks, different cards (MasterCard, Visa).
I am still doing some tests myself to figure out the root cause better (I am an IT guy, so… you know). I paired the watch with another phone and different account, can’t add my cards. But I can add my wife’s cards!
Any hint, suggestion, help is appreciated. Thank you!
Apple Watch Series 8