Paying with Apple Pay is very convenient, especially if you have an Apple Watch: you press a button several times and voila, you can now bring the watch closer to the payment terminal. If you only have one card added to the service it’s that simple, although if you have multiple cards you may have seen that the one that appears by default is not the one you want .
This requires you to go through the extra step of selecting the card you want to pay with, scrolling with the digital crown on the Apple Watch or your finger on the iPhone. It’s not the end of the world, but we can save it choose the card we want as the default payment method.
A card for the iPhone, and if you want another for the Apple Watch
To be able to choose the credit or debit card that we want to appear by default in Apple Pay, we just have to access the settings of our iPhone and enter the ‘Wallet and Apple Pay‘. There we will see a list of the maps that we have configured and below, the ‘Default map’ option:
All we have to do is select the card we want from the list that will appear, and that’s it:
This option changes the iPhone’s default map, but you need to go to a separate section to do the same on the Apple Watch. No problem: in the iPhone Watch application, you have exactly the same section, “Wallet and Apple Pay”, with the same options and the same interface. Simply repeat the process.
Apple separated it because that way we have the possibility to have a default card on the iPhone and another on the Apple Watch, in case it suits us according to our needs. In any case, if we want the same, we just have to access this menu from two different applications. It will only fly for a few seconds.
