Yes, I've confirmed it works twice already. Are you mirroring your iPhone in Passbook & Apple Pay in My Watch app? If it shows up on your lock screen on iPhone, it most definitely should show up on your Watch.
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Yes, I've confirmed it works twice already. Are you mirroring your iPhone in Passbook & Apple Pay in My Watch app? If it shows up on your lock screen on iPhone, it most definitely should show up on your Watch.
It works for me.
I've got two faves and the one always shows up, even if I'm not at the starbucks, just in the general neighborhood. The other does not, but it doesn't show up on my phone either - that location hasn't worked well in years.
I've been using the starbucks card again ever since I could on the watch. I just use siri to launch passbook so I don't have to launch it from the app screen. I actually saw my first Apple Watch sighting there over the weekend. AN older guy with the same config. SS with BSB. His other wrist had a Rolex which just made me laugh for a couple minutes.
Yeah, they really need to ditch their Rolexes for good because they look like tools. This soon-to-be Edition (and former Rolex) owner is the smart one.
Well I feel like a dumbxxx. I rechecked all my settings for alerts, favorite stores, etc. and set out to test this AM. Walked down to the Starbucks hoping to see it pop up on my watch. Nothing. But I did have the red dot on the top of the watch showing missed notifications. I swiped down and there was passbook and my Starbucks card. At 6:55 AM. My do not disturb settings end at 7AM. Well, that's it. I'm just a big dummy.
As a note of caution I found that the geofence for Starbucks hit battery life on my 5s very hard. I ended up disabling it and suffering the couple of taps required to bring up my Starbucks card; it is easy enough to do in the queue or while ordering.
I do feel like an idiot when twisting my arm to make the watch face the reader, though. I may just use my iPhone in future.
I do feel like an idiot when twisting my arm to make the watch face the reader, though. I may just use my iPhone in future.
The red dot doesn't necessarily mean a missed notification. If you do not have sound alerts enabled no the iPhone, then the Watch will not alert you via haptic or sounds. Instead you'll just see the red dot.
You can get haptics without the sound turned on. Both my iPhone and watch are silent, but I do get haptics.
I also have location turned off for the Starbucks app to prevent excessive battery drain, but it's the Passbook that pops up the Starbucks notification on the lock screen when you're at your favorited stores. So it'll still work if you have location services turned off for Starbucks but on for Passbook.
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Haptics still work when on mute.
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Sorry for the confusion. I mean the app specific notification settings on the iPhone. For example, if you configure Facebook to show a banner and badge icon, but disable sounds for that app completely, you will not get haptic feedback for Facebook notifications on the watch. You'll just see the dot.
I use it all the time. If you set all your favorite stores all you have to do is swipe down on the watch and hit the passbook notification when you walk in to Starbucks.
Truth. I hope Target adds it soon, along with its store credit cards. The big stores jumping aboard is when it should really take off. I was tickled to death when our vending machines at work all of a sudden took credit cards AND APPLE PAY this week. I love using it when I can, but right now that's mostly been a few vending machines, Walgreens, Firehouse Subs and McDonald's if I go inside or if I feel like educating the person working the drive-thru window on how to work the system. A company with that much clout should really have a "this is how to do Apple Pay in the drive-thru" instruction board at those windows. It's really not that hard, but they just don't do it much because it's just us iPhone 6 owners and a very few Android-based phone owners.
The Passbook scanning has been nice, but if you've used it as much as I have at Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts, you know how much of a pain it can be when either their scanner decides to flake out or the sun shines right on your phone. That's why when the big group of companies talked about an Apple Pay alternative involving QR codes, I thought they were just damn stupid or in 2010.
I was reading this thread the other day and decided to try the Starbucks card in my Passbook this am. I got to the drive up window and put my watch out to have her scan the code screen and she couldn't get it to read. I pulled it up on my phone and it worked fine (as always). Kind of disappointing. I'm sure it had something to do with the sun. Regardless, Applepay is clearly the better long term solution. I did use Applepay at McDonalds the other day. Their issue is that they have to stick their entire payment terminal out the window for you to use the NF sensor. It's not really meant for drive thru's. It did work though.
Did they not use a portable reader? McDonald's training manual specifies a portable reader which makes for seamless transactions, but I've heard of some locations handing out the regular reader.
If it was actually portable and you thought it was too big, don't worry as that's their problem and I'm sure it'll shrink in size over time as typical with technology.
http://9to5mac.com/2014/10/13/mcdonalds-apple-pay-training/