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Google Pay is officially dead in the US. Just got the email. (lemm.ee)

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We are writing to inform you about changes to your Google Pay experience. As we continue to provide safe and seamless payments to users around the world, we are also simplifying the app experience in the U.S. For years, Google Wallet has been the primary place to securely store payment cards used for tap and pay in stores, alongside your other digital items like transit cards, driver’s license or state IDs, and more. While in-store and online payments via Google Pay are unchanged, the U.S. version of the standalone Google Pay app will no longer be available for use starting June 4, 2024.

Anywhere you normally use Google Pay — from checking out online to tapping and paying in stores — remains the same. If you use your Android phone to shop in stores where Google Pay is accepted, you can continue to tap to pay in stores with the Google Wallet app. Learn more about Google Wallet.

Here are the key changes and important dates:

• As of today you will no longer be able to view or activate deals in the app. If you previously activated a deal, and are still waiting for cash back, regular reward timelines apply. We know finding the best deal is important when shopping, which is why we launched a new deals destination on Search.

• Changes to peer-to-peer payments: As of June 4, 2024, you will no longer be able to send money to, request, or receive money from others through the U.S. version of the Google Pay app.

• Manage your Google Pay balance from the Google Pay app until June 4, 2024: You can use the U.S. version of the Google Pay app until June 4, 2024 to view and transfer your Google Pay balance to your bank account. You can continue to view and transfer your funds to your bank account after June 4, 2024 from the Google Pay website. Learn more about transferring money out of Google Pay.

If you have linked accounts on Google Pay to monitor your transactions and insights, you’ll still be able to view your transactions on the Google Pay website in the transactions tab after June 4, 2024. If you wish to disconnect your accounts after June 4, 2024, you will be able to unlink them on the Google Pay website.

If you've used the Google Pay app in the U.S. to send money with Wise from the U.S. to India or Singapore, this feature and related transaction information will no longer be available in the app starting June 4, 2024. This does not impact your Wise account, which you can continue to access at wise.com.

Google Payment Corporation's Customer Service and Error Resolution Policy and applicable processes still apply to report unauthorized transactions related to Google Pay. If you have any further questions about your balance in the app, you can learn more about your Google Pay balance.

For all other questions related to the app, please visit this article or the Google Pay Help Center.

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[-] AlternateRoute@lemmy.ca 160 points 5 months ago

So use google wallet..

Instead of rebranding / upgrading one product, Google continues to make new products and have awkward migrations between them.

[-] tbhall77@lemmy.world 86 points 5 months ago

And that is why I have been slowly moving away from them one product at a time.

[-] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 123 points 5 months ago

slowly moving away from them one product at a time

you'd make a great google manager!

[-] DarkShaggy@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

Hilarious

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

This weekend I'm going to take a stab at this peertube thing. I want to see how it works.

[-] bluGill@kbin.run 10 points 5 months ago

It works great however a lot of content isn't there.

[-] Link@rentadrunk.org 6 points 5 months ago

What alternative is there to Google Wallet?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 32 points 5 months ago

A literal wallet

[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 26 points 5 months ago

PayPal, Zelle, Apple Pay, a credit card, cash.

[-] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Checks, money orders.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 11 points 5 months ago

Beaver pelts?

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Very small rocks

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

A duck!

[-] BossDj@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

Who are you so wise in the ways of science?

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

There are some who call me....Tim?

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[-] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Samsung pay is still pretty cool. Was the bomb when they supported MST in addition to NFC.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

PayPal is more evil then just about anyone else

[-] xep@fedia.io 4 points 5 months ago

I'm not in the US but don't use it at all. Maybe I wouldn't be able to avoid it if I had to make payments on the Google store.

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[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 85 points 5 months ago

It's just a name change, again. It'll be android pay again in a few months. Then if you're really sad about loosing Google pay you'll just need to wait a year or so and it'll be rebranded Google pay again.

[-] DarkShaggy@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago

This is so true of Google.....

[-] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 5 months ago

Except it isn't just a name change because with this change you can no longer use it for person to person payments.

[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Never knew that was a feature in some countries. Well, typical Google dropping features when rebranding.

[-] laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 months ago

But they'll totally bring the best features from the old one into the new one!

(They do not consider that feature that you care about to be one of the "best features")

[-] then_three_more@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

One of these days ~~Assistant~~ Gemini will be as capable as Google Now.

[-] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

"Google Pay" app is going away, but the "GPay" app is not, and you can use that for person to person transactions. Yay Google naming conventions.

[-] Glowstick@lemmy.world 83 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No, the standalone google pay APP is just having it's features transitioned into google wallet. Google payment services is totally unchanged.

Quote:

Anywhere you normally use Google Pay — from checking out online to tapping and paying in stores — remains the same. If you use your Android phone to shop in stores where Google Pay is accepted, you can continue to tap to pay in stores with the Google Wallet app.

[-] rushaction@programming.dev 25 points 5 months ago

Except Google Pay had the ability to send money to/from friends and bill splitting. Wallet has no such features at all. And nothing they've published or any news on it seems to mention this. (Which has left me somewhat confused that I'm missing something. But as best as I can tell, I'm not)

[-] Glowstick@lemmy.world 22 points 5 months ago

Sure, but OP worded their headline to sound like they were talking about the google payment system itself, which is not what this news is about

[-] rushaction@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

D'oh. I missed that! 😔

[-] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Because Google is Google and can't keep their own shit straight, there is a bit of confusion. "Google Pay" is going away, but "GPay" is not. You can still use the GPay app for person to person transactions. Google Wallet is used for things like tap-to-pay. Both apps link to the same underlying account.

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[-] tsonfeir@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Good time for Apple to come in and offer an android option for Apple Pay. 😅

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 63 points 5 months ago

Much like Google Chat became Google Hangouts which became Google Chat, Google Wallet became Google Pay which became Google Wallet again.

How long before Google Play becomes Android Market again? Or YouTube becomes Google Video?

[-] FiskFisk33@startrek.website 27 points 5 months ago

youtube was never google video. Google video was a competitor to youtube, and perplexingly coexisted with youtube for several years after the google youtube aquisition.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Sure, which is why I didn't put "again" after that, but it was really just necessary for the joke (because yeah, it's obviously ridiculous).

[-] eee@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

I don't really remember what the names of Google apps are anymore. I just know there's an app I can use to tap to pay, and I have a custom icon for that app (since all of Googles app icons are so similar it's confusing).

Once they deprecate one app and move to the next, I'll just change the icon on that.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, and I use a Pixel, so I don't even really often have to hit any app icons at all, making this even more of a nothingburger.

[-] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Or like when Meet went away, but Talk in Gmail was renamed Meet and Duo also became corporate Meet.

Or something like that. Maybe Allo was involved.

[-] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Honestly who can tell at this point?

[-] penquin@lemm.ee 23 points 5 months ago

They waste so much money doing this dumb shit all the time. Create 6000 apps that do the same thing and each one is slightly different, then realize how stupid they are then combine them into one. Good old Google 😂

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago

Anyone care to point out highlights? I'm not reading a fcking tos.

[-] asap@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

The standalone Google Pay app will be shut down.

Google Wallet (which is almost certainly what you're using) will still be functioning as normal.

[-] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago

As well as losing the ability to send money from person to person. People will have to find another solution for that - Zelle, PayPal, Cashapp, etc.

[-] PaintedSnail@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Nope, you can do that with GPay, which is not the same as Google Pay, which is not the same as Google Wallet, but they all connect to the same account. Yay Google naming 😑.

[-] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago

Thank you very much!

[-] knobbysideup@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

I got tired of fighting with GPay on crdroid every other week. Got a card that works with my Garmin watch instead. No more nonsense.

[-] kandoh@reddthat.com 6 points 5 months ago

If ever there was a company begging to be broken up by order of the state....

[-] Etterra@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

I didn't even know that was a thing lol

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

I can't believe I could have used this to send money to India... all the hoops I had to jump through and I could have just used Google pay?

[-] RagingHungryPanda@lemm.ee 7 points 5 months ago

I've used Wise before and it's worked well. There is a fee though, so I'm not sure if it's better than PayPal. Good luck there.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

For some reason Paypal wouldn't even work. I ended up having to buy items in a game they played and then transferring the account to them so they could then resell it back into Indian Rupees. I tried so many other ways, there were either massive fees or it just wouldn't work. I could have used crypto, but she didn't trust it.

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