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BY FAR #3 is the most annoying UX on iOS 26 - I fall for it every single time when trying to change payment method. Not only does it undo years of muscle memory, it's so unbelievably unintuitive to have the first button change address instead of payment method

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Why would you need to change your address at all? That's part of the card details. No other payment system does that!

Not the address, but the phone number has a bug I run into it occasionally. Some merchants support the +1 country code, some are local US only and don’t expect it. Safari’s auto-fill figures this out when filling the form. But then I go to Apple Pay, an it replaces the phone number with a 1 at the beginning and drops the last number, then I get an error that something is wrong. Initially took me a while to realize what was happening and that you can edit the number in the Apple Pay overlay before it applies it to the order. Just a bit annoying

It changes the shipping address, not the billing address.

And yeah, I do tap it to change what card to use. "Every single time."

I don't get it. The screenshot on reddit appears to show that tapping on the card changes the billing info, and under that there's a separate button to change the card. So far as I can tell that's the same on iOS 18? The only difference is that tapping on the card doesn't do anything. What's the "muscle memory"?

iOS 18 is what introduced this. In iOS 17 you could tap the button with the card to change the payment method.

You're right my bad, iOS 18 introduced it and I'm still mistapping 2 years later.

I'm so tired of looking like a boomer that doesn't know how to use their phone when I'm paying with Apple Pay irl and I need to change the card, now a classic iOS user humiliation ritual :,)

I didn’t even know this is an issue. It’s written right there, “Change Payment Method”.

Not an iOS user but I can totally see why this is an issue: Users read from top to bottom and once they think they found what they search they click it without analyzing the remainder of the screen.

So in this case you find a button that looks like it changes the payment method (because in earlier versions it did and it's a common UI pattern) and don't even see the button below that acually does this.

Sounds like a luxury problem to me. You have an iPhone and a credit card, probably also a mobile data plan to make it work.

I guess taxing the rich is a pretty good way to get superrich.

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