Apple Pay on Apple Watch NOT Working After Updating to WatchOS 10

These type of issues are generally resolved by unpairing the devices, force restarting both devices and then pairing the devices again.

Do you know how to force restart both devices?

After 10.1.1 works fine... at last... ;-)

This worked for me. I unpaired the watch from the watch app

Try unpairing the watch from your watch app on your phone phone app then re-pair the watch via the phone app from the watch app again

Turn off assisted touch if it is on. It fixed my ultra.

I agree. Usually their updates are pretty solid but I’ve had a number of issues with iOS 17 and watch is 10. For me, when I double tap the button to bring up Apple Pay I just get a blank screen and I have to power off and on my watch and then wait until the cards get reloaded from my phone. Everything worked fine with watch os9.

Update: paid with Ultra upgraded to watch OS 10.0.1 at 2 stores within 10 min between transactions. First store: attempt to use Apple Pay resulted in the same double tap and re-try 3 times. On the way to the 2nd store I turned off cellular just to experiment. Apple Pay worked on the first try. Same default card used for both payments. Will try again soon. Posting per chance apple devs/PMs monitor discussion threads. This issue as I noted earlier would be super hard to factor into any test process. No issues with cellular on before dreaded 10.0.1 update.

I have been using my watch for payments and all was well. Things went south the moment I moved to the combination of iOS 17 and watch OS 10. Ever since double clicking the side button brings up the cards; but holding them to the reader doesn’t do anything. I have read every response here and will try now after having unpaired and re-paired my watch as well as turning off assistive touch.

The fix is to unpair watch and re-pair watch. Problem is the watch will again fail to work trying to use Apple Pay over time. A few weeks working then reverts back . Get the “Confirm AssistiveTouch is enabled”, which it is. Software?

Come on Apple $1600 worth of hardware should work as intended.

Iphone 15 Max Pro SW 17.5.1

Apple Watch 9 SW 10.5

My Ultra after watch OS10 update started having issues with Apple Pay too. Card is visible on side button double press but the wrist rotation makes it go away. Used Apple Pay about 5 times since the update. Each time took multiple attempts to get the reader to accept the card. Wrist had to be rotated to place near the reader super slowly. This never happened before. Please roll back the change that is triggering this behavior.

The cards stay on screen as normal, but the reader doesn‘t even notice them. I tried disconnecting the watch completely and setting it up again from the backup.

One thing I noticed is that before, the prompt to hold the cards against the reader when double pressing the side button didn‘t show up anymore, now it does again. I wasn‘t able to test if that fixed it, might be promising.

Is your iPhone updated to iOS 17.x.x?

No one from Apple watches these threads. You need to post a bug report or calm Apple Support

I have the Ultra. Wallet and Apple Pay works if I double press the crown.

iOS 17 has been a complete cluster for a lot of people, first time I've been extremely disappointed in an Apple update. If I recall the first time I used Apple Pay on my watch it may have done the exact same thing but it corrected itself, haven't had any issues since, with Apple Pay on the watch anyway.