can't delete billing address from wallet or apple pay

So moved over to the phone 6s, did a restore from backup, and have noticed that in my wallet, my apple pay credit cards are defaulting to an old address I had in my profile a while ago. I have the option to delete, which I do and it keeps coming back. Tried removing all my cards from apple pay, reinstalling, new cards, etc and the address keeps populating as an option, and every time I delete it from wallet, it appears whenever I go back. This address does not exist in my profile anywhere in my address book, I even recreated a new profile with a different name (added my middle initial).


Any thoughts? The only thing I can think of, which I don't want to do, it do a complete wipe and reinstall everything manually.

iPhone 6s, iOS 9.0.2

Posted on Oct 8, 2015 4:43 AM

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Posted on Apr 27, 2016 8:11 AM

I was able to solve this issue in two steps on iOS 9.3.1:


1. Open Contacts. At the top, tap the contact that says "My Card". Update the address info there as desired.


2. Open Settings > Wallet & Apple Pay

2a. Shipping Address; Edit to remove any outdated addresses, add any new one(s) you may wish, and select your default.

2b. Select each card and scroll down to Billing Address. Modify as appropriate as you did for shipping addresses.


Note: Apple Wallet seems to pull default addresses from the contact card designated as "My Card" first, and those addresses can only be edited in Contacts. After editing contacts, the old addresses still remain in Wallet, but then can be removed from the Wallet settings. So you must make changes in order.

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Oct 10, 2017 10:07 AM in response to Pooshka

I completely agree with you. Fortunately for me there are only one or two places that have my affected card on record. I’ve reported this in as many ways to Apple as I can. i even participate In the beta iOS program so I can send bug reports through that mechanism. Apparently as onerous as this is for us not enough people are affected to really get their attention.


When I went to my bank someone there said oh, you can change that in Settings. I told them you can try. They actually took my phone and made the changes telling me it was fixed. I just said wait a minute, I restarted my phone and the old address popped right in there. So the other card is on its way.


This is morning I got a fraud alert from the bank because Apple tried to process a charge for a new Apple Watch that I ordered several weeks ago. It must be shipping soon. But I didn’t realize at the time that the old address had been entered under the billing address. So the bank rejected the transaction. I had to go to the order and put it on another card account. Maybe everyone should try to make a purchase with Apple and have all of them rejected. Maybe that would get their attention.

Dec 30, 2015 2:46 PM in response to Markusck

someone please answer this. I am having the same issue. Lists an old BILLING address that is no longer in my address book OR the credit card company. Called apple and as usual, USELESS. I don't accept their option to wipe my phone and set up as new thereby losing all data. And when i try to use apple pay, it say Billing address is incorrect. APPLE, GET ON IT ALREADY. your millenials make big bucks, do you job and make your products work already.ENOUGH

Apr 23, 2016 5:22 AM in response to Baumer

This was awesome insight. Didn't know how logically connected things were in iOS! Once you've put your correct address in your contact info, open Wallet up, click on the card you have the issue with, then it the circled i in the bottom right corner. Go to Billing Address and click Edit in the top right corner. Then click on the red circled - (dash) to delete the address you do not want. This will cure it!

Jun 24, 2016 6:34 PM in response to alissabree

Unfortunately this does not work for me. I have removed the old address from my contact card as well as the site used to manage my AppleID, but every time go into my wallet and Apple Pay settings, my old address still shows up for each card in my digital wallet as a billing address option. I can delete the old address, go up one level in the settings, then back into the specific card and the old address will have reappeared. This is true for EVERY card in my wallet where the old address was used.

Oct 5, 2017 6:30 PM in response to Pooshka

My guess is that even if you set it up as a new device once you log into your iCloud account the addresses will come back. I had this beaten in iOS 10. It had only occurred on my iPad Pro. I replaced it with a new iPad Pro and no longer had the problem. It had never occurred on my phone or my watch. Now in iOS 11 it’s back on my iPad and on my new phone.

Oct 10, 2017 9:15 AM in response to papjo

I’m actually aware of this solution. And it’s guaranteed to work for obvious reasons. However the reason I didn’t bother mentioning it is that, at least to me, it’s the most cumbersome and ridiculous way of solving an issue that’s clearly Apple’s fault, and not your bank’s. I have numerous automatic bill payments set up using the affected credit card. Why should I go through an additional hassle of updating each and every automatic payment just to fix single Apple-caused issue? That would be a major pain you know where.


So, to summarize solutions (however painful they are):


- get a new iPhone


OR


- get a new Apple ID


OR


- call bank and have them reissue a new credit card with a new credit card number

Apr 3, 2017 9:52 AM in response to papjo

@papjo I will let you know if/what I hear from AppleCare (Wed at the earliest). My phone was exchanged for an unrelated issue earlier in the year, it did not make a difference in my case.


I did, however, find a small glitch in my bank's address system that seems to have corrected the billing address in the iPhone Wallet app, as well as in the Apple Watch Wallet app. For example...


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I will delete any of the incorrect addresses, selecting only the correct one, tender the purchase, and later go back to find all three of the incorrect addresses remain.

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