How to pay with Google Wallet using your Samsung Galaxy Watch

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Yes, you tin pat your Samsung Galaxy Watch to salary for purchases and proscription pinch cards saved connected your Google Wallet. You conscionable person to group it up and make judge you meet a mates of criteria. First, some Google Wallet and its tap-to-pay capacity must beryllium disposable successful your region. They're already supported successful nan US, and you tin cheque Wallet's thief page to spot if they've already rolled retired to your location. 

Second, your Galaxy Watch must beryllium moving Wear OS type 2.0 aliases newer, which puts Samsung's Tizen-powered Galaxy Watch 1, 2 and 3 models retired of nan running. If you person a Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 aliases a later model, spell up and travel our instructions below. To cheque if you person a supported device, swipe down connected your smartwatch, spell to Settings and past pat "About watch." From there, you tin find its Wear OS type nether "Software information." 

How to instal Google Wallet connected your devices

• On your Galaxy Watch, swipe up to entree your apps drawer and occurrence up nan Play Store. Search for Google Wallet and instal it connected your wearable.
  -If you don't person a fastener surface yet, you'll beryllium prompted to group it up. You tin take betwixt Pattern and PIN. A surface prompting you to cheque your telephone will popular up connected your watch arsenic nan Wallet apps betwixt devices sync. If you take PIN, tick "Unlock without pat aft PIN entered" truthful you don't person to pat an OK fastener aliases a cheque people each clip you cardinal successful your your PIN.
• Do nan aforesaid point connected nan Android telephone linked to your watch. Simply download and instal Google Wallet from nan Play Store.

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How to adhd a costs method to your Samsung Galaxy Watch

• Tap nan "+" tile connected your Galaxy Watch and cheque nan Wallet app connected your telephone to adhd a costs card. 
• In nan "Add to Watch" surface connected your phone, you tin spot nan action to adhd a card. 
• Here, you tin take 1 of nan cards you've antecedently saved connected Google Play for subscriptions aliases in-app purchases. The Wallet app will inquire for immoderate of nan card's specifications for confirmation, specified arsenic its CVV, expiration day aliases nan cardholder name
• You tin besides adhd a caller in installments aliases debit card. If you take this, you tin either scan nan paper to automatically extract its accusation aliases type its specifications manually. 
• After choosing aliases adding a card, nan Wallet app will corroborate pinch your slope whether you tin usage that peculiar paper for Tap to Pay. Not each cards and banks support nan capability. You tin cheque out Google's website for each supported cards and banks successful nan United States. If you're not successful nan US, simply take your region successful nan drop-down menu. 
• Once you've linked a supported card, you'll spot a surface connected your phone's Wallet app telling you that your paper is ready. It besides links to instructions connected really to usage nan tap-to-pay feature. 
• On your Galaxy Watch, you'll now spot nan paper you've added successful nan Wallet app. The first paper you adhd will beryllium your default paper for tap-to-pay purchases, but you tin alteration it by tapping connected your paper of penchant and choosing "Make default."

How to usage Tap to Pay for purchases

• You tin only salary without having to unlock your smartwatch if you person a Pixel Watch 2 aliases a newer Pixel device.
• On a Galaxy Watch, you will person to unlock your device, unfastened the Google Wallet app, move your wrist and past clasp nan look of nan smartwatch adjacent to nan paper reader. You person to do nan aforesaid for nationalist transportation, but the reader astatine nan gross aliases entranceway must of people support Tap to Pay. 
• You will cognize if nan costs is successful if your smartwatch vibrates, makes a sound and shows a bluish checkmark connected its screen. 
• Take statement that you tin salary pinch a non-default card: Just swipe up to nan paper you want to usage connected your watch's Wallet app and hold for "Hold to reader" to show up.

If you're successful Japan...

• In Japan, Google Wallet besides supports Suica and PASMO prepaid IC cards. However, you tin only usage them pinch smartwatches purchased successful Japan, since those devices support Sony's FeliCa contactless technology. 
• For Samsung, nan models that support FeliCa are the Galaxy Watch 6, Galaxy Watch 6 Classic, Galaxy Watch 7, Galaxy Watch 8, Galaxy Watch 8 Classic and Galaxy Watch Ultra. 
• To adhd a Suica aliases PASMO card, pat "Add" successful nan Wallet app connected your watch and prime one. You tin besides adhd money to nan prepaid cards from wrong nan application.