Google is retiring the standalone Pay app in the United States. Users have until June 4 to transfer the balance to bank accounts.
Google Pay is a secure mobile wallet that lets users send money to businesses or friends, make online purchases, pay bills, and earn rewards that translate to cash-backs or discounts.
The app has over a billion downloads on Google Play and is used by people across 180 countries on various platforms (Android, Windows, macOS, iOS, ChromeOS).
The tech giant announced that the change affects only the U.S. version of the standalone Google Pay app. The service will remain available with all its regular features, including finding deals and getting cash-back rewards, until June 4, 2024.
After that date, though, peer-to-peer payments through the app will no longer be supported for the U.S. market.
Users that fail to transfer funds out of the app by the time it retires can still do it through the Google Pay website.
U.S.-based users can find detailed instructions on how to move their money out of Google Pay in this guide. Also, more details about the sun-setting process are available on the updated support page.
Google recommends U.S. users to switch to the Wallet app, which the company says is used five times more than Pay in the U.S.
Wallet is designed as a more comprehensive solution that lets users store payment cards as well as other digital items like transit cards, driver’s licenses, state I.D.s, and more.
Google Wallet’s focus extends beyond just payments to include a broader range of digital wallet functionalities, and the tech firm feels it better matches the needs of the U.S. demographic.
Referring to users that rely on Google Pay to send money from the U.S. to India or Singapore through Wise, a financial platform for cross-border payment transfers, Google says that the feature will no longer be available starting June 4.
For these transactions the company recommends doing the transfers using the Wise account.
Comments
b1k3rdude - 4 months ago
Heh, this is exactly why I dont have any GG services. The myopic pencil necks shut anything that isnt making bank.
junkbondtrader89 - 4 months ago
"Heh, this is exactly why I dont have any GG services. The myopic pencil necks shut anything that isnt making bank."
Because they shut down old obsolete services you don't subscribe to Google? Lol what a terrible reason. And I guarantee you do use many Google services without even realizing it.
You know who else suits down services that are costing them money? Any good business that ever existed. Also I can't recall any major Google services shutting down. They have many, so maybe some smaller ones have... But yeah it's really not an issue or a good reason to avoid google.
ViceKnightTA - 4 months ago
Err...is someone bored? This is a hoax just like the one about Gmail.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/02/22/gmail-says-its-here-to-stay-after-sunsetting-hoax-circulates-on-x/
junkbondtrader89 - 4 months ago
Dude that Forbes article is about Gmail not Google pay. This article even links to real Google webpages discussing it. Stellar research there.
U_Swimf - 4 months ago
gmail is sunsetting the BROWSER client service. Ya know before apps, there were websites you manually navigated to, without shortcuts, in order to check your mail. Basically the html version of the website is stopping so you are forced to use the 'modern' webapp and all it's additional services, tracking, contact managing, settings which many overlook with reaching permissions into most all other linked google services...
junkbondtrader89 - 4 months ago
This is such a trash article. Pathetic "journalism". Clickbait title. They are shutting down a feature not the app
U_Swimf - 4 months ago
Actually it's the reverse. The app is shutting down. And the service will still have your card info and be able to charge you later given the managed subscriptions everyone is automatically added to by terms of use..
I notice lots of new ATMs are following this same business model of acting like banks with none of the liabilities or expectations as whatever they get called