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long hold to re-arrange your rearrange what your default card is - but to the bottom of the stack - is dumb
Apple has my location at every moment of my life, from birth to natural death, and they can't switch the default card based on the store I'm in? Will wonders never cease.
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For all I know there is something like that, but it'll be buried in settings, probably in accessibility, where nobody ever goes. Discoverability of options on the iPhone is fraught with danger and distrust, I learned about CarPlay widgets a few days ago and I've used it for years . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rUminiQjtM
From my limited experience, Apple often denies the obvious for the sake of asthetics. For example, the simple utility of a [Backspace] key.
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When my wife worked retail (20+ years ago), she had to verify the name on the card with the name on the machine with the name on their ID. They caught a decent number where the machine had a different name pop up than the card showed. And WAY more when comparing both to their ID. They called her "The Bulldog" because of how vigilant she was about it. That store lead the region in CC Fraud. But soon they were the bott…
At least in my experience the "name on the machine" back then was just read from the magstripe - I had access to a track 3 writer and had some fun copying my credit card info onto my driver license and swiping that.
It is (or was last time I played with card readers). But a person would sometimes use a stolen card with their name on the physical card so it matched their ID.
I guess people weren't updating it digitally? Maybe it was easier to just clone a card onto a card you already have?
The wallet app UI is the peak of Apple's 'single 20y/o in sf' design. Anyone that has multiple card from the same bank (because, say, you have a personal account and a shared account with your partner) has to do the "pick between the two identical looking top 20px of cards" dance every time they use Wallet to pay for something. It is mind-boggling that the current UI persists.
Switching your card when using Apply Pay as part of checkout on website was better when tapping the card icon allowed you to switch the card you are paying with but since iOS 26 that is for editing your billing address… if you want to change the card you have to select option below that with no icon titled “Other Cards & Pay Later Options”
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From my limited experience, Apple often denies the obvious for the sake of asthetics. For example, the simple utility of a [Backspace] key.
Apple's keyboards have keys marked delete or a symbol where other keyboards have keys marked backspace, delete, or a symbol. Their utility was the same in my experience. What obvious difference did I not see?
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When my wife worked retail (20+ years ago), she had to verify the name on the card with the name on the machine with the name on their ID. They caught a decent number where the machine had a different name pop up than the card showed. And WAY more when comparing both to their ID. They called her "The Bulldog" because of how vigilant she was about it. That store lead the region in CC Fraud. But soon they were the bott…
I worked retail for a bit in high school. I tried to check card vs ID name for about a week before the manager told me to cut that shit out - too many wives, kids, etc using "dad's" card (this was 1994, so it was almost exclusively dad's card - I imagine that's changed in the last 30 years).
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...so you keep the one you primarily use in the front of your card slot in your wallet, and the one you don't use often behind your other cards. Apple wallet solves this in a similar way, letting you arrange the order
I didn't know I could do that, so I just gave it a try. First instinct, double tap the side button to open Wallet. Couldn't rearrange the cards there. So,I opened Settings app and couldn't rearrange the cards there. Finally, I opened the Wallet app and found I could rearrange cards there, though there's no visual indicators that I can. I accidentally changed my default card on the first attempt.
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The same is true in a physical card wallet. An 80 year old with early onset challenges can work this wallet, pick a card, and then hold the phone to the reader at a store. It's all co-opting "familiar" actions for them, not tech-like, which means they can do it. The biggest UX issue Apple has for that persona isn't the wallet, it's the lack of physical home button. Everyone in their 70s and up seems to be given pause…
First; have you heard of a sharpie? Second; have you tried this with actual 80yr olds with early onset? Because I have. It doesn’t work, not even close. The steps require to get to that point are impossible for an 80yr old with early onset to even get close to. From trust, to setup, to even the stupid double-click with arthritic fingers, it’s fraught with roadblocks. And forget swiping. This is a massive problem. The…
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> The same is true in a physical card wallet. Not at all. In my physical wallet, those identical looking cards have different names on them, ie. and for joint accounts. I can also mark them up with a marker, or request a different picture from some banks. In iOS I need to remember that the one ending with 0044 is mine, and 0073 is for our joint account. I have no way to add an alias or distinguish them otherwise. Thi…
> I have no way to add an alias or distinguish them otherwise. Seeing ones own name on a physical card also doesn't say say which joint account it is, yours or your partners (my partner and I each have Bank X, and each have a card for the other, which only has our own name, so, I feel your pain). But, there is a way! 1. Tap the card, then tap the card[123] icon upper right and "Enter physical card information". 2. Ei…