Verifying Every Google Pay Transaction Now?

I was out and about yesterday, and every time I used my phone to tap (using Google Pay), it refused to work until I verified it was me, by, for example, scanning my fingerprint. I found this very infuriating and was wondering why this had suddenly started, because I've never had this before, and so was there something wrong with my account/card ?

Anyway, having done some searching, it seems like this has just been introduced by Google. You have to unlock the phone and re-verify ever purchase if it's not been recently unlocked (with 2 or 3 minutes), and unlocking by face or keep unlocked whilst on your body is not good enough either.

A bit more searching and I found you can disable this new feature, but only for public transport payments.

Has anyone else recently had this happen? My initial thought is that it has now made using my phone to tap a waste of time, I might as well just use my card instead, since I don't have to verify that.

I prefer it this way, purely for security reasons. But I might be in a minority on that.
I still carry a small RF-blocking wallet with me 95% of the time. But when playing around with the NFC scanner on my phone a couple of years ago I realised the wallet wasn't all that effective.
Just a few months ago I was looking at the same wallets being sold in a retail store and got the sales spiel so without revealing I already owned one I asked if I could try my cards in it. Placed the cards in the wallet, pulled the phone out of my other pocket and swiped past the new wallet only for the NFC reader to detect the cards. Surprise and uncertainty on the face of the sales assistant was the outcome.

So yeah, for contactless I prefer to authorize each time. Otherwise anyone passing by me in a crowd could tap 'n go without me realising.

Yes, that's what I think, It's £100 in the UK, so it should be the same, otherwise you might as well go back to chip and PIN.

Unlocking my phone isn't the issue for me, but having to do it again is. Say you order a drink at the bar, I'll get my phone out ready to pay, unlock it (because I don't want to hold people up by pissing around once the machine has been presented). And now what do I have to do ? Piss around because it's now going to lock the wallet app in the time I've been waiting for said ordered drink.

The whole idea of tap and go is that it's quick if you are making small payments (you might argue that £100 isn't small, but that's a different matter). Now it's tap, piss around, re-tap.

If the phone is in your hand, unlocked, it's unlocked. There is no fingerprint sensor until you tap on the payment device, and then it asks you to to scan your fingerprint again. And then 3 minutes later, if you have not completed your transaction, you have to do it again.

BUt I have now found it's actually possible to rescan, by opening the Wallet App, and if it needs re-scanning, it says so at the top and then you can rescan it.

But before, all I had to do was unlock my phone, I didn't have to open the app as well.

Or, bin all that nonsense off and use a card, which is what I shall now do.

I had this for a week or so and now it's gone again and I can pay without verifying.

I've not noticed the difference, mainly because I get my phone out of my pocket and unlock (fingerprint or face) it a few seconds before I'm due to pay. Now unless the machine takes more than a couple of minutes to sort out the payment then I'm never going to have to unlock it a second time.

Quickest way if this does happen is to switch of the phone and then scan print again

Indeed. I just have one card in my Google Wallet, so I never need to open the app in order to pay, as it's always running and there's nothing to select. BUt as you have several cards, you do always open the app first, obviously so you can select the one you want.

How did you add your Barclaycard to Google Wallet?

I have previously spoken to Barclays customer services and I just tried again and it didn't work.

Previously the Barclaycard app allowed cards to be added to a phone but that feature was removed and the advice was to use Google Wallet but Barclaycard cannot be added to Google Wallet.

I really want to be able to have my Barclaycard back on my phone again so any info on how it works would be great.

I only have one card in my wallet also and haven't stumbled across this as of yet despite using it at least a dozen times between Saturday/yesterday and today - however I only unlock my phone with the fingerprint scanner as and when I get presented with the terminal or when I select to pay now at a till.

Thank goodness I haven't seen anything like that on my phone yet. Used it today. Probably not rolled out to everyone yet, they're testing and watching reactions. It would really annoy me to unlock it twice. After all, the phone has already scanned my fingerprint, why do it again literally right away?