Wise introduced its digital cards into Ukraine. I have already added it to Apple Pay. I want to use it as a default payment method for Apple subscriptions but I'm getting an error that this card is not available for Ukraine.
Yeah, that is true. I have asked about internal payments (in Apple account), not Apple Pay.
I also reached out to Wise with this problem, and we figured out that you don’t support cards issued from a different country/region, which is set in account settings.
In other words, I’m from Ukraine. I have set region Ukraine in my Apple account. Wise provided the card, which was issued in UK. So Apple declines to add this card to an Apple account.
The same problem is with Payoneer. It’s weird because, in fact, I registered an account in Wise, and they provided a card officially. I can use it everywhere. Including Netflix, Google, Apple Pay, but I can’t use that card in my Apple account.
Probably you need to change the politics for Ukraine that we can use cards issued from different countries. At least you should give the ability to add cards issued from UK and USA for Ukrainian users.
Hello eugene,
Thanks for reaching out to the Apple Support Communities! For issues adding a card as a default payment method for apple pay, we recommend checking out this article for Apple Pay participating banks in Africa, Europe, and Middle East. Per the article, Wise is not a participating bank.
If you continue to have issues, check out this steps in this article If you can't add your card to Apple Wallet.
Take care!
Hi,
the question Eugene asked is not about Apple Pay (which works well with Wise card), but about default payment method for Apple account. We want to use Wise or Revolut cards to pay for subscriptions in Apple account. Currently, we are getting error that card does not belong to the region of account.
Regards,
Roman
Same here. I should probably switch country in iCloud, but that affects all the pricing, and I’m still in Ukraine. So, I don’t see a reason to do it to just pay for subs in AppStore. I’ll probably move my subs to direct ones for every service.
I have the same issue. Waiting when apple will fix it.
Wise cards as a default payment method in Ukraine
