Apple Pay Using Wrong Card

I selected the card I want to pay with from wallet. I try to make the payment with that card. On my phone it says the payment failed, however the card reader says the payment was accepted. I then get a notification that a different card in my wallet was charged even though I did not want to use that card.

Posted on Aug 12, 2025 12:39 PM

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Posted on Aug 12, 2025 12:45 PM

That s not possible. When using Apple Pay, you choose the card before completing the process, and that is the one that is used. It cannot and will not magically use another card that was not selected.


How exactly did you try to make the payment? How did you choose the card exactly, what did you do?


The charge on the other card may be for something else and just coincidentally happened at the same time as your Apple Pay failed charge, but probably has nothing to do with it.


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Apple Pay Using Wrong Card

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