Apple Card Apple Card spending categories suddenly all showing as “Shopping” — and older transactions are changing too

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Anyone else seeing this?

Starting a few weeks ago, Apple Card transactions that used to code correctly (e.g., 'Food and Drink') are now classified as the yellow 'Shopping' category. Wallet still shows the right merchant logo, cleaned-up name, and icon — but the category is wrong.

• The problem was intermittent for a few weeks, but it’s been affecting nearly every transaction since I set up my new iPhone (iCloud migration, for what it’s worth).
• Older charges from those merchants have also been retroactively re-categorized as Shopping.
• Reporting individual transactions with “Report an Issue” hasn’t helped.
• Third-party apps like Copilot Money (which use the same Apple Card data feed) still show the correct category, so the raw data seems fine — Wallet is mislabeling it.
• I've found at least one person who is experiencing this on iOS 18 and an iPhone 16, so it might not be related to the new iOS (and it's ability to reclassify transaction categories).

Yesterday I used my Chase card at Verve Coffee (same merchant I often visit with Apple Card). Right after that, every past Verve charge on my Apple Card — the entire history — flipped to Shopping. I’m starting to think Wallet merges data across cards. If so, the category logic seems completely broken.

Spending summaries and those colorful category charts are basically useless if categories keep shifting. I feel like I’m slowly losing all meaning of the colors.

Is anyone else seeing the same thing? Have you found a fix or at least a way to stop Apple Card from re-classifying old transactions?