I am unable to add my Apple MagSafe Wallet to my iPhone

If you're not getting an immediate visual notification, it's not working properly.

Late to the party but I’m having the same issue and 18.01 didn’t fix it.

I just updated to 18.1 and see no benefit or fix to this problem. I deleted and re-added the wallet.

Then it does show up

but if removed, all I get is a tactile vibration and maybe a banner notification after a minute or two but the wallet location does not update within the FindMy app, just shows where it was as of many minutes ago.

That’s a possibility I considered, but I wanted the OP to describe what he’s looking for. I had a leather one that was constantly falling off my iPhone. I finally quit using it and bought a leather wallet and attached an Air Tags to it.

I have the same problem. It started today. I am getting “Not Your Wallet” suddenly. When I look for my wallet on “Find My”, it says location not found. I am also on iOS 18.0. My phone chimes when the wallet is attached and vibrates when the wallet is detached, I get no notifications other than “Not Your Wallet” at startup when I reboot my phone.

I'm encountering the same "Not your wallet" message when rebooting my iPhone 15 Pro running iOS 18. I have an Apple Leather Wallet with MagSafe. The only work-around is to remove the Wallet from Find My and re-add it. The issue happens each time I reboot my phone.

I have the same problem. Have been using an Apple MagSafe wallet purchased new since I got my IPhone 14 also new 2 years ago. Now with the iOS 18 update it says this is not my wallet. This is for sure a bug in iOS 18 no two ways about it.

I too get this error. I bought the wallet from an Apple Store last spring and it has always been mine. Error started with my new 16 ProMax and iOS 18. Now when I reboot my phone it says not my wallet and does not acknowledge it being attached. Removing it from my phone and replacing, I get the alert but it does not warn me after 1 minute that it is removed and still says my wallet is missing in Find My. Removing it from my devices and adding again in Find My results in the error “this wallet is already attached to this account. It works normally until I reboot and then I have to remove and add again in Find My to get it working. This must be a bug for sure.

Tried that they go through everything and you end up ages on the phone having to setup again all your wallet cards and they go a full reset and restore from backup. It makes NO difference. It’s a bug needs to be fixed

100% Jeff. I am explaining what Apple support make you do if you report the Mag safe wallet issue. By them asking you to do the reset has the knock on effect that your cards in electronic wallet will need to be set up again. Yes they trying to solve mag safe leather wallet issue by a reset but the reset will remove your cards from wallet App.

Same issue. When I upgraded to ios 18, for a day or two my leather Magsafe wallet gave the "Not my Wallet" notification. Then the leather wallet simply stop registering at all, and no location shows for it under FindMyiPhone.

Removing/reattaching the leather wallet does nothing.

I opened a BRAND NEW Apple leather Magsafe and tried it out. The new one worked better than the old one, but not 100% correctly.

When pulling the new one on and off the iPhone I get the tactile vibration but no immediate visual notification that it was removed. The new one eventually gets some kind of notification after some minutes, but not the proper notification more like a banner one.

So, I'd say that the issue might be a combination of hardware in the Magsafe leather wallet and software issue with 18.0 and 18.0.1

I have not yet tried the 18.1 I will just wait for the official update.

When I phoned Apple they wanted me to delete (not just turn off but delete) any VPN apps I have on the phone, and reset Network settings. From prior experience with this sort of thing, I don't think VPN has anything to do with all this, because all of my AirTags still work fine, so why would MagSafe wallet be any different. Plus the fact that all this started with 18.0 update cannot be simply a coincidence.

Is this UNIVERSAL with EVERYONE who has updated to 18.0 ? I am thinking yes, but that some may be experiencing it just the way I described with the brand new Magsafe wallet, that is, still getting tactile notifications and delayed banner - such that they don't really notice that something is amiss, or think that this is the "new way" MagSafe leather wallet is notified in ios 18 - tactually, delayed or banner only.

Hey,

I have had the same issue. Apple Support advise that If you go to settings, face ID & passcode then turn off stolen device protection, turn off your phone, restart it then turn back on stolen device protection the issue should be resolved.

So far this has worked for me.