Q: Having issues using apple pay using apple watch at starbucks.
Both credit cards have been verified and each says READY, but the Starbucks reader will not connect to my watch. Do I have a setting or settings - set wrong?
Watch Sport 42mm
Posted on Jun 8, 2015 6:22 AM
Unless you see a scanner with a wifi icon ( usually sideways ) or an Apple logo/icon the merchant doesn't have the necessary scanner to work with Apple Pay. If you have a Starbucks app with a card registered to it and if you have location services turned on for the app as well as Passbook the Starbucks Passbook scan code will pop up when you get to a store. I don't have one set up as a "favorite" store but it pops up anytime I'm at one - on the watch.
If you don't have a credit card set up with the Satrbucks app I don't believe the app will get inserted into Passbook. From what I saw today at their conference loyalty cards will become part of Apple Pay but they still need to have the correct equipment for you to be able to use it.
Posted on Jun 8, 2015 5:41 PM