How to find your Apple Card number to buy something online

How do you buy something with a credit card that has no numbers printed on it? Fortunately, thanks to the Wallet App, you can get your card number in just a few seconds with no fuss.

The Apple Card has long been known to not feature any numbers on it. While a large portion of this choice was likely aesthetic as a card number would ruin that sleek, minimalist luxury feeling, there's also a security angle to omitting a visible number.

The Apple Card has the ability to switch your card number on the fly. This means that you — not the card issuer — are the first line of defense against card theft. If ever you feel like someone has the ability to do something nefarious with your card number, you can request a new card number instantly.

Requesting a new card number is always one tap away

That still leaves the question of how you get the card number in the first place. Unsurprisingly, like a lot of services designed by Apple, it's a relatively quick process.

On your iPhone, open the Wallet app.
Select your Apple Card by tapping on it.
Tap the additional options menu designated by the three dots in the upper left corner.
Verify your ID, either via passcode, touchID, or faceID.
Tap Card Information.

Step by step walkthrough of retrieving your Apple Card number

Once you're in the menu, you can scroll down and see your card number and the associated security code. In this menu is also the ability to request a new card number.

After you buy something with your Apple Card, it's important to make sure you know how to pay off your purchases as well.

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38 Comments

boxcatcher 274 comments · 9 Years

About 5 years ago

Man, if someone can’t figure this out on their own ...

Soli 9981 comments · 9 Years

Hopefully you won't have to do that as Apple Pay gets more common for websites, but in lieu of that being an option I would suggest people add this information to 1Password (or another password manager) so that you can easily use that CC with a click without having to look it up each time.

iOS_Guy80 899 comments · 5 Years

Soli said:

Hopefully you won't have to do that as Apple Pay gets more common for websites, but in lieu of that being an option I would suggest people add this information to 1Password (or another password manager) so that you can easily use that CC with a click without having to look it up each time.

Or add it to the Apple Password manager.

macgui 2456 comments · 17 Years

boxcatcher said:

Man, if someone can’t figure this out on their own ...

That's easy to say while looking at a tutorial. That said, a UI should be intuitive enough where nobody has to 'figure' it out at all. And a lot of Apple UI is not well done.

Also this little tutorial serves to answer all the panicky questions about buying online that people have been asking since the card was announced. Now they can know in advance without having to figure it out.

seanismorris 1624 comments · 8 Years

Can you have one fixed one and one ephemeral?

Or when you generate one, is that the only one temporarily tied to the account?

For example, you might use the fixed one on Amazon, but any other purchases online gets a temp.