18.4 Lock Screen Wallet shortcut button

[fede777]

Hi, like many others, I swapped the Lock Screen Camera button for the Wallet, since I don't like using the 2 press on the power button.

For some reason, as of today, when I press the Wallet button it opens the app instead of presenting me the "ready to pay" UI, like what the Double press on the side button does.

I do have a default card selected, it was working fine yesterday.

 

[russell_314]

Hi, like many others, I swapped the Lock Screen Camera button for the Wallet, since I don't like using the 2 press on the power button.

For some reason, as of today, when I press the Wallet button it opens the app instead of presenting me the "ready to pay" UI, like what the Double press on the side button does.

I do have a default card selected, it was working fine yesterday.

I just tested it on my iPhone 14 Pro Max on iOS 18.4 and it just opens the Wallet app. I haven’t tried it before today, so I can’t say if it would’ve done something different before.

Perhaps if you do this near a payment terminal, it will open the ready to pay UI? I don’t know because I’m home so I don’t have a way to test it now.

 

[BigBlur]

It's not possible to avoid double-clicking the side button to make a payment. Even if you bring up your card in the Wallet app manually, you still need to double-click the side button to confirm and activate the NFC chip. It's a built-in security feature that can't be changed or activated differently.

How long has this been "working" for you, or did you just do a quick test and thought it worked? I've noticed that if you double-click to bring up the card, and then go to your Notification Center/Lock Screen and tap the wallet icon...then it does what you want, but that's only because it was already open in the background. Perhaps that's what you did?

You can create a Shortcut to open a specific card and put that on the Lock Screen, but you'd still need to double-click the side button to confirm and activate it.

 

[fede777]

I'm 99% sure that since iOS 18 came out, and allowed us to change the Lock Screen shortcuts, the Wallet one worked the way I said, and it's not a merely Open app action, that's the whole reason why I swapped the Camera for the Wallet one and disabled the 2 click to bring up the default card UI.

 

[Ctrlos]

I'm 99% sure that since iOS 18 came out, and allowed us to change the Lock Screen shortcuts, the Wallet one worked the way I said, and it's not a merely Open app action, that's the whole reason why I swapped the Camera for the Wallet one and disabled the 2 click to bring up the default card UI.

You still need to double-click the side button to confirm FaceID. You can just hold an unlocked iPhone up to an NFC payment terminal and the card will pop up but you still need to double click to confirm the payment. This is one extra layer of security that Android Pay does not have, just using the lockscreen as the barrier. In theory somebody could just tap a reader on an unlocked Android phone whilst walking past and trigger a payment; on the iPhone this is impossible.

 

[fede777]

You still need to double-click the side button to confirm FaceID. You can just hold an unlocked iPhone up to an NFC payment terminal and the card will pop up but you still need to double click to confirm the payment. This is one extra layer of security that Android Pay does not have, just using the lockscreen as the barrier. In theory somebody could just tap a reader on an unlocked Android phone whilst walking past and trigger a payment; on the iPhone this is impossible.

Yes, like this, but still, the lock screen button brings the app and not the pay UI asking me to 2 press and Face ID, like it used to.

 

[AstonSmith]

I'm still on 18.3 and I just tested this out. I changed the bottom right button to be the wallet shortcut.

Upon opening, it does bring up the pay UI with default card selected (rather than the bog standard wallet app). However, it does insist on double-pressing the side button to make the payment.

 

[fede777]

I'm still on 18.3 and I just tested this out. I changed the bottom right button to be the wallet shortcut.

Upon opening, it does bring up the pay UI with default card selected (rather than the bog standard wallet app). However, it does insist on double-pressing the side button to make the payment.

Thanks for confirming I was not crazy haha, I don't know why it changed recently.