Once you use the app to send someone money their name, or the one they use in Venmo, will be in a list of suggestions once you edit the to field.
Sent from Kimber's Red iPhone True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice.—Martin Luther King Jr. > On Oct 31, 2020, at 10:18 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > > Hello Robin, > > Thanks for this info. It took me a while to figure out that navigation > drawer is what you need to click to get to settings. What I want is to have > Venmo prompt me for a pin or password when I open the app. I found the > devices setting & mine shows my iphone & says I won’t be prompted for a > password if I use this device. I can find no way to change this. I created > a password when signing up but can find no way to get Venmo to use it. > > I don’t mind typing in a name when I want to send someone money. Is there a > way to add individuals to a list within Venmo? I’m not on Facebook & adding > contacts didn’t work. > > Lastly, I have not used Venmo yet. Will it prompt me for my bank info when I > try to pay someone? I’m guessing it will save this info so I don’t have to > enter it every time. I don’t want to do this until I make sure the app is > password protected. > > Thanks, > Sherry Wells > From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Robin > Frost > Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2020 3:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Venmo Questions > > Hi, > > I send money with it regularly and have had no issues with it. Perhaps it > isn't the most intuitive but it is certainly usable. Even if it doesn't > finish syncing contacts if you tap on request or send money there's an edit > field into which you can type someone's name or number and it'll find it > within its users. Then there are edit fields for amount and purpose and then > you can choose between request or pay. It's been so long since i set it up > that I can't recall if I could add info in settings or if I had to do it when > executing my first payment. > > You can also set whether your transactions I.E. recipients involved can be > viewed by other friends who are users by the public or completely private and > can also be set globally or on a transaction by transaction basis. > > > > It never asks me for any sort of password because i set it to remember my > device I use most often but if that is turned off it can employ a pass code > and Face ID when available and managing trusted devices is very easily done > all within the settings area of the app itself which you access after tapping > on the "navigation drawer." > > I discovered it when hiring someone to provide me a service earlier in the > year and when I asked what payment methods she accepted she said venmo. She > departed and I quickly made a B-line for the search engine of my choosing to > find out what she was speaking about as I'd no knowledge of it and didn't > want to admit such. She's only maybe 9 years younger than I am but I > suddenly felt very old and last century (laughs). But since it was her > favorite though she accepted others I learned how to use it quickly and she > was never the wiser but I did learn something new in 2020 so that's something. > > It's interesting to me that Venmo is a subsidiary of Pay Pal but the two are > still kept as separate entities. It reminded me of Procter and Gamble making > competing brands of soaps and the like and I giggled. > > > > I find Venmo quite a bit easier and more preferable to Cash App but as with > many things opinions and perceptions therein and one's mileage might vary. > > I hope this helps. > > Take good care. > > Robin > > > > On 10/28/2020 7:59 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hi list, > > Is anyone using Venmo? I tried installing it today & have some issues. > 1) Some of the privacy info & options were not readable with voice over > 2) I clicked on load my contacts & the app was still loading 45 minutes > later. I don’t have an excessive number of contacts, a little over 100. I > finally skipped this step. > 3) I was never prompted to enter any bank info for myself > 4) when I went back into Venmo later, I expected to have to enter a password. > One of the early steps in the install was to enter a password. The app > opened without my entering a password. > > I have not tried to transfer money yet. Perhaps when I do, I will be > prompted for bank info then. I want to wait until the app only opens with a > password before I enter any bank info. Or maybe you only get prompted for a > password when you try to transfer money? > > Has anyone else had these kinds of problems? Is there something I can do? > Any info would be helpful. > > Thanks, > Sherry Wells > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected]. 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