The latest version of IOS for iPhone, iPad, and iWatch devices really, really wants you to set up Apple Wallet / Apple Pay. Your devices want you to embed Apple in the middle of every purchase, and they’ll pester you every time you pick up your device with full-screen dialogs insisting that you need to finish setting up Apple Wallet. Right. Now.
I try to limit the number of things that can access my money, and I have no reason or desire to set up Apple Wallet, so I turned the notifications off. They are embedded in three separate places on the iPhone.
Go to Settings > Notifications > Wallet, turn Allow Notifications off.
Go to Settings > Wallet & Apple Pay, turn Double-Click Home Button off.
Go to Settings > Safari, scroll to the bottom, turn Check for Apple Pay off.
After you update the three settings above, you will still see a notice in Settings stating Finish Setting Up Your iPhone.
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- Click
Finish Setting Up Your iPhone. - It’ll prompt you to
Set Up Apple Pay. - Click
Set Up Apple Pay, then exit without doing anything.
- Click
No more nag screens!
Hope you found this useful.
Article updated on 2018-07-10
I did all 3 of the above suggestions. I still have a notice in Setting stating “Finish Setting Up Your iPhone”. When I click on the notice, it’s prompting me to “Set Up Apple Pay”. How do I get rid of this reminder?
Click “Set up Apple Pay”, then exit without doing anything.
Accept the prompt to set up apple pay (either do it from the popup nag message, or from tapping on settings and doing it there), but don’t actually do the setup; instead, at the first screen, look to the bottom. There is a place to click that says “Set up later in wallet”. Click that, then you’re done! No more nagging messages.
That link at the bottom no longer exists!!
Thank you!! I LOVE Apple Pay – but only on my phone and watch, I do not need it on my iPad. The nagging was incessant.
Thank you!!! I now have no more notices!!!
Thank you Earl!
Thank you! It worked for me and I am the “technology impaired!”
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I think something may have changed. The suggestions above no longer work. The ‘Set up later in Wallet’ link no longer exists. So the wallet is currently rendered unusable.
The point of the article is to turn off the nag screens without setting up the wallet. If you don’t set up the wallet it is rendered unusable.
If you want to use the wallet, set it up. Setting it up will also get your phone to stop nagging you since you have now complied with its orders and it got what it wanted. For now. Until it wants something else.
Read the instructions. No more Apple Pay. It’s pretty god damn simple… because this article makes it simple. Did it in one try, while extremely drunk. You need to learn to read. Thank you master of the iPhone, Earl C. Ruby III
Thank you for the step by step directions. Worked great on my girlfriends phone. I on the other hand love Apple Pay
Thanks Earl, that was so annoying!!
How do I get the billing verification to go away?
So nice to have this gone.
Thank you so much for this! I just hit “cancel” in the upper left of the screen in the last step, in case that is what people are looking for.
Now if only the Apple Pay icon also vanished from new Message blanks. Leave it to Apple to rub our noses in their, uh, profit centers.
HELP .
Cannot access my seats in WALLET—did all the steps, lost the red number 1 but cannot get it off my WALLET.