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Paying for stuff with your Wear OS smartwatch might be about to get a lot more annoying. Google Wallet, which has been going through some changes, could soon ask users to verify transactions with a PIN every time they try to make a tap-to-pay transaction.
Recently Wallet added extra verification to transit payments, which was designed to make the process more secure without sacrificing any convenience in the process. Unfortunately Google Wallet then decided it was going to reset the verification clock every 3 minutes, regardless of what your phone is doing. Now it looks like this same annoying system could come to Wear OS as well.
The original user to report this claims to be from Asia, while there have also been comments from users in Europe and the U.S. Though some insist that this method of verification has been in place for years, plenty of others are adamant the verify-every-time system is brand new.
Android Police has speculated that this could be a bug, thanks to Google globally implementing verification rules that require near-constant verification on all transactions. The relevant support page makes no mention of smartwatch transactions, and instead focuses on making payments with your phone.
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