Hi, everybody! The only reason I'm still using a Samsung phone is because of Samsung Pay. Here in Brazil banks usually have more credit cards allowed on Samsung Pay compared to Google Pay - and that she case of mine.

I would like very much to buy a new Pixel phone, but SamPay would be really missed for me.

There's anyway of making it work on a non-Samsung phone via apk or otherwise?

I just got a Watch 4 and was trying to figure out how to pay for stuff with it. I figured out that unlike on my phone, you actually have to have a pay app open on the watch for it to work (right?) and so it's good to have a quick shortcut to a pay app. And since the long-press back button is not (easily) changed from opening Samsung Pay, I figured I would just use Samsung Pay since I already use the double tap home button for something else.

But when I try to setup Samsung Pay on the watch and click on "Add Card" it tells me to "Check your phone" but nothing comes up on my phone. And if I try to add the Samsung Pay/Wallet app on my phone, then the Play Store says that app is not compatible with my Pixel 5a phone and won't let me download it.

Doing some Googling it seems like Samsung Pay recently dropped support for non-Samsung phones. https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-pay-doesnt-work-3178129/

So does this mean that the non-changeable long press back button is essentially broken now unless you have a Samsung phone? I hadn't seen this particular issue before on the lists of things that don't work with a non-Samsung phone (mostly they just talk about the ECG and blood pressure), so not sure if I'm just missing something to get Samsung Pay to work?

Edit: Got it to to work by searching for "Samsung Pay (Watch Plug-in)" in the Google Play store on my phone and clicking on "Open". For some reason the watch is not automatically bringing up that plug-in when clicking on "Add Card" on the watch. But by getting that app to open on my phone using the Play Store then I could add a card. It's a little weird because that "Samsung Pay (Watch Plug-in)" is not a selectable app on my phone, I can only open it by searching the Play Store for it on my phone and that store sees I already have it installed and so gives me the option to "Open" it.