Pay with your smartwatch

In sure countries or regions, you lot tin utilise your smartwatch to brand contactless payments where Google Pay is accustomed.

To use Google Pay on your picket, yous need to:

  • Have a watch running Wearable OS two or newer.
  • Have a watch with NFC.
  • Be in a country or region where Pay on Wear OS is supported.
  • Ensure the Google Pay app is installed on your sentry. If information technology's not already installed, you tin download information technology from the Play Shop.
  • Use a supported menu.

Tip: PayPal on Google Pay isn't supported on watches.

Add a card to your watch

If you lot add a card to your watch, you won't need your telephone to pay.

Of import: At this time, you lot tin't add a disbelieve, loyalty, or rewards card to Google Pay on your watch.

  1. On your picket, open the Google Pay app Google Pay.
  2. Tap Get started.
  3. Gear up screen lock if you oasis't already.
  4. On your phone, follow the instructions to add a credit or debit menu.
    • Tip: This only adds a card to the Google Pay app on your watch non your phone.
  5. Your carte du jour will testify upwardly on your spotter.

Brand a payment in a shop

  1. On your watch, open the Google Pay app Google Pay.
  2. Hold your watch over the contactless payment reader until you hear a sound or feel vibration from your watch.
  3. If asked, selectCredit regardless of your type of carte.
  4. For debit carte transactions, you may accept to enter a PIN. Use the Pin you prepare with your bank.

Manage your cards

Pay with a non-default card

The outset card you add to Google Pay is used unless you cull to use another menu. Here'south how:

  1. On your picket, open the Google Pay app Google Pay.
  2. Gyre to the card yous want to use. When you see "Hold to final," it's ready to use.
  3. Hold your watch confronting the contactless payment terminal until you hear a sound or feel vibration from your scout.
  4. If you utilise a debit card:
    1. Select Credit.
    2. If asked, enter the pin you gear up with your bank.

Alter default card

Remove a carte du jour

Find past purchases

  1. On your watch, open the Google Pay app Google Pay.
  2. Tap a carte du jour.
  3. Swipe upward on the bill of fare to view your transactions.

Fix a problem

Can't add together a bill of fare or information technology was removed

Can't add a card

If you can't use your card with Google Pay, double-check the list of participating banks and supported cards.

If y'all have questions or feedback about your bill of fare, contact your depository financial institution.

Become a "Network mistake" when you add a menu

Make sure your phone is nearby. Your phone and watch should have Bluetooth turned on and an internet connection (either cellular or Wi-Fi).

Card was automatically removed

For your security, cards added to Google Pay on your watch are deleted when your screen lock is removed. To re-add your card, open Google Pay on your scout, add together a screen lock, and then add your carte du jour again.

Watch says "Can't connect" or "Can't check accounts" or says to restart phone

Watch says "Can't connect" and freezes when adding a card

  1. Make certain your phone'due south Bluetooth is on.
  2. On your telephone, open the Wear OS app Wear OS by Google.
  3. At the top, make sure information technology says "Connected."
    • If information technology says "Disconnected," effort these steps.
  4. On your spotter, open the Google Pay app and try to connect again.

Spotter says "Tin can't check accounts" when you open up the app

To fix this error, update the Google Pay app.

  1. On your watch, open the Play Shop app Play Store.
  2. Swipe from the pinnacle and tap My Apps.
  3. Scroll and tap Google Pay.
  4. Tap Update.
  5. Re-open up the Google Pay app Google Pay.

App says to restart phone

  1. Restart your phone (not your lookout).
  2. Wait 30-60 seconds. This makes certain your phone has installed updates needed to use your watch.
  3. On your spotter, open up Google Pay and tap Retry Retry.

Loading circumvolve doesn't stop

Close the Google Pay app on your lookout and open up information technology over again. If that doesn't piece of work, to restart the watch, hold downward the Power button.

Trouble using Google Pay on watch in stores

1. Make sure watch is on tight and unlocked

Tap the screen to find if Google Pay asked yous to unlock your sentinel. If so, unlock it before you pay.

ii. Brand sure Google Pay app is open up

Just before you lot pay, open Google Pay on your sentinel and make sure you can encounter the card you want to pay with on the screen.

3. Hold your lookout man at the reader longer

Try to agree the NFC on your sentinel over the reader until it beeps and your sentry vibrates.

You tin besides try to hold your picket confronting the reader in a dissimilar position. This helps considering your spotter talks to the reader using NFC (Well-nigh Field Communication). Most watches' NFC antenna is backside the screen but check your watch's transmission for the exact location.

4. Make certain the store accepts contactless payments

Ask the cashier if the store accepts contactless payments. If they don't, you need to apply a physical card.

Prepare Google Pay equally your default for payments

Afterwards you lot download Google Pay on a new device, y'all may demand to set it every bit your default for payments.

  1. On your watch, open up Settings.
  2. Get to "Connectivity," or "Connections," section.
  3. Tap NFC.
  4. Ensure Google Pay is selected as your payment provider.

Tip: If yous accept Google Pay installed past default, yous do not demand to go through these steps.

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