StooLaird
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Q: Apple Pay stopped working. Now get "Canot Set Up Apple Pay" error

I'm having real difficulty in trying to set up Apple Pay on my iPhone and it's driving me crazy!

 

Until a few weeks ago, I had Apple Pay set up and functioning absolutely fine on both my iPhone 6 and Apple Watch.  Then I noticed that my cards weren't showing on my Apple Watch despite still showing and functioning perfectly fine on my iPhone and being set to "Mirror my iPhone".  I tried to add the cards back manually but to no avail.


Shortly after this, I began to notice that Apple Pay wasn't working on my iPhone for In-App purchases (still worked for in store, contactless purchases) so to try to resolve these issues I deleted both of my cards from my iPhone and tried to re-add them.  When I tried to re-add them however, I got the "Cold Not Set Up Apple Pay - An error occurred while setting up Apple Pay" error.  Despite trying everything below, the same problem still persists and it's driving me crazy! Can anyone help?


Tried so far:

- Deleting cards from iPhone and re-adding

- Unchecking "Wallet" from iCloud options

- Signing out of iCloud

- Switching iPhone off and back on

- Update of phone software

- Putting phone into DFU mode and updating from there

- Reset of Keychain on my Mac

- Changing region on iPhone from UK (where I am) to US to UK to Sweden to UK


NB As an aside, another strange thing that I've noticed is that now when on my home screen I swipe left to the new search screen, nothing shows - just a blurred version of my background.  There are no recent contacts, suggested places, recent news articles etc.  Could this also be linked?

iPhone 6, iOS 9.0.2

Posted on Oct 13, 2015 1:28 PM

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Q: Apple Pay stopped working. Now get "Canot Set Up Apple Pay" error

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  • by Jonathan UK,

    Jonathan UK Jonathan UK Oct 13, 2015 2:11 PM in response to StooLaird
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    Oct 13, 2015 2:11 PM in response to StooLaird

    StooLaird wrote:

     

    I had Apple Pay set up and functioning absolutely fine on both my iPhone 6 and Apple Watch.  Then I noticed that my cards weren't showing on my Apple Watch despite still showing and functioning perfectly fine on my iPhone and being set to "Mirror my iPhone".

     

    Hi

     

    If you previously had Apple Pay working on both your watch and your iPhone, you would originally have added your cards separately to each device. Adding cards to your iPhone does not automatically add them to your Apple Watch (they are not supposed to sync between the devices or be "mirrored").

     

    Cards are added to your iPhone via the Wallet app:

    Set up and use Apple Pay on your iPhone or iPad - Apple Support

     

    Cards are added to your watch via the Apple Watch app on your iPhone (which adds them only to your watch, not to your iPhone):

    Set up and use Apple Pay with your Apple Watch - Apple Support

     

    If you did have cards added to your watch, they may have been removed automatically at some point (eg if you disabled Wrist Detection).

     

    In respect of the issues that you are now experiencing in trying to add cards back to your iPhone (having removed them), considering the steps that you have already tried, I suggest that you contact Apple Support:

    https://www.apple.com/support/iphone/contact/