For iPhone users!
I just tried adding and recharging a Suica Card on my Apple Wallet using my international Visa card (Chase Sapphire Preferred) and it went through!
I’ve been trying everyday for the past week and it has been failing but maybe they have finally fixed the issue!
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Edit: From the recent comments, it seems that it is no longer working anymore. When I made this post around 3:20PM EST it was working. Seems like Mastercard and American Express are back to being the only ones working. 🙁
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Which App are you using? I found only japanese Apps for that :/
It’s good to have these data points, but I’m not going to hold my breath. This has actually been working on and off for months, with the occasional charge going through on Visa, and there was even a brief week or two where Visas worked again in general. I’d love to see it happen for real, but it doesn’t seem to be a priority to fix the 3D Secure stuff permanently.
I can add the Suica card to my Apple wallet, but I can’t put money on it using my Visa (Chase Sapphire Preferred). It keeps failing. However, my mastercard went through.
Weird that we are using the same card but having different results. It shouldn’t be this complicated!
My chase sapphire reserve (Visa) would not work but I used Apple Card (Mastercard) which is linked to my iPhone account worked so that was how I reloaded my Suica and Pasmo cards!
I use my Apple Card for anyone who doesn’t have a Mastercard. Hopefully that helps for anyone else who wanted to load with a Visa card!
Amazing that this post made it through Robo mods… I basically wrote a detailed guide explaining the Apple Card method that has no foreign transaction fees and 2% cash back but it got rejected by the mods and bots…
While we’re here, let’s cover SmartEX and a virtual SUICA combo. For SmartEX The opposite is true, Visa works and Mastercard appears not to. For that I went and got a Wells Fargo Autograph visa with no foreign transaction fees and no annual fees. Wondering how to get your obfuscated virtual SUICA from wallet into SmartEX? Download the regular Japanese SUICA app to your phone, open it and click the little i for info button, there is your complete SUICA number from wallet.