Disable Apple Pay constantly asking me to enter a credit card

Had the same problem and think I’ve figured out a fix

Click set up Apple Pay/finish through the Setting option, ask to put in card details manually, then put in a 16 digit fake number e.g. 1234 1234 1234 1235 and click enter

It rejects it and says card isn’t elgible for apply pay. Click set up later.

Also hide all wallet notifications through Notifications.

Haven’t had any prompts since.

Let me know if this works for others.

OMG... how immensely annoying that

Apple is not making it easy to get rid of the

'add credit card' prompt out of the wallet.

Another nail in the proverbial. That plus

not being able to use an iphone just like any

other external hard drive. Grrrrrrr.....

Nope. I put a boarding pass in my wallet. ADD A CREDIT CARD blocks the boarding pass from being use by covering up the USEFUL information (the boarding pass) with USELESS information to add a card. I don't use it for paying, nor will I. I'd like to use it for boarding passes, but will print the **** things before I us iPay. So - how do I get that obnoxious popup off my wallet screen?

I had the same aggravating problem. I finally clicked on the the message and it disappeared and did not return. I did not have to enter any credit card info. I can't recall what the message said but maybe "SUBMIT" or "Continue".

There must be some people at Apple that have strange reasoning.

Just trying to respond to your post became a PIA. They sent an authorization code to my phone so I could sign in.I am already on an authorized iMac. then they treat the sign in as a new computer and I have to say that Safari is safe to use.

This process is becoming rubbish.

Anyhow, good luck and I hope your grief is eliminated.

I too did this and it worked....Went to Settings, Setup Apple Pay, Enter iCould password, press "setup later in wallet".

Hopefully that will keep the nag screen off too...

Ridiculous to pay $1k for a phone to get nagged to use a proprietary payment app. At least Amazon gives the choice of paying more to opt-out of ads on their devices.

So far what I did was:

Go to Settings

Click the Finish Setting Up Your iPhone

The notification for the Apple Pay came up

Click Cancel on the top left corner

I also turned off Apple Pay Cash via Settings > Wallet & Apple Pay > Apple Pay Cash toggle OFF

Hope this works

Tap on the boarding pass. The "add credit card" will temporarily go away.

But only temporarily. Apple really, really, really wants your credit card info and won't fix this inconvenience even if you are "inconvenienced" off a flight.

Which just makes me more determined that they'll never, ever, ever get this from me.

In iOS 11.2, you don't even have to put in a fake CC #. After you click the reminder/nag bubble asking you to complete your setup, just click the link at the bottom of the Set up Apple Pay/Wallet screen that says "Set up later in wallet..." and the red reminder bubble on the settings page will go away.

I did the same thing for Face ID on my iPhone X (still prefer passcode) and the nag to set up Face ID disappeared as well.

Hope this helps.

Thanks MWoodhead, I followed what you said with shutting off each option & then notification in settings but there was also a Wallet & Apple Pay app so I also shut it down the same way but I still had the 1 over notifications in settings, so I clicked back on settings update & up popped the notice with the set up Apple pay again so I clicked on it & it started doing the update (& I saw that the 1 over notifications finally disappeared) & up came the pop up with set up now or a set up later options which I clicked on & problem was finally fixed but only after the 1 over notifications was gone! Thanks for the help & hope I helped a little bit too.

What you need to do it go ahead & set up Apple Pay & then when it is set up it will have a off & on switch & then go through your settings & shut off each part of that App as above go to Notifications & switch off the sounds badge app icon lock scree & show in history & then notifications itself, then go down to the new app Wallet/Apple Pay& do the same thing & shut each one off individually & then the Apple Pay itself. I know it ***** but you already have a credit card for Apple in phone, but I did not have to add my debit card when I did it this way. So I hope that helps.

All you have to do to turn it off is go into your phone's settings and click "Wallet & Apple Pay.

I am on IOS 11.2.6

I just upgraded to iOS 11.01 and have no plans to use Apple Pay and I too found that there is no way to stop the constant prompting to "complete setup iPhone" or "Apple Pay" (it alternates). Why would a company that used to pride itself on ergonomic behaviors create such software?

Go to 'Settings' then 'Wallet & Apple Pay'. You will see at the top of that screen 'Apple Pay Cash'... just slide the green dot to the left and Apple Pay will not appear in your wallet.

Under IOs 11.2.6, go to settings-->wallet and apple pay-->Apple pay cash, turn switch off. And that's it. You can disable notifications as well, but this stops the setup request.