Google Wallet gets American Express support on Fitbit, notification improvements, and more
You could use American Express on Fitbit Pay, but support was lost when Fitbit devices migrated to Google Wallet.
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- Google is rolling out a new version of Google Play Services, bringing new features to Google Wallet.
- On Fitbit devices, Google Wallet now supports American Express cards.
- On phones, you can now choose to authenticate debit/credit card payments for your public transit journeys.
Google Wallet is a mobile payment app from Google that lets you store your card information securely on your phone and use it to make payments. If you’ve stayed loyal to the app all these years as it went through its rebrandings, Google has released new features that make the Google Wallet app a better experience.
As part of Google Play Service v24.16, Google is rolling out a few new features to Google Wallet. On Fitbit devices, you can now use American Express cards. This has been a long-standing user complaint, as Amex worked on Fitbit Pay on older Fitbits. When Google migrated to Google Wallet on Fitbit, American Express support wasn’t present, and this is finally being rectified.
