When you send money with Venmo you get choices between public, friends, or private feed. I believe it defaults to public feed and if you don’t change that then any of your friends who are using Venmo can see your transactions. I always change mine to private.
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 12:15 PM, Alan Lemly <wale...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I've never sent money with Venmo but I've spent some time messing with the > app since Sherry's post. Some of my problems with it are I'm unable to turn > on Touch ID and passcode. The app takes you through entering a 4-digit PIN > and verifying it and after completion, the Touch ID and passcode setting is > still turned off. I've written Venmo Support about this and we'll see what > happens. When attempting to authorize and remember a device using Venmo, > VoiceOver isn't clear at identifying which devices if any have been so > remembered. Also, I have to sign into the app each time I want to use it > which is insane in this day and age and no doubt relates to my Touch ID > setting difficulty. The app will work but I find things such as this a little > too clunky for my taste. And why anyone would let their financial > interactions be reported by such an app is beyond me. I expect one can turn > off this setting but I'm surprised by what was displayed by my few contacts > using Venmo who have apparently left some sort of public setting turned on. > > Alan Lemly > > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of > Robin Frost > Sent: Saturday, October 31, 2020 2:26 AM > To: viphone@googlegroups.com > 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, sherrywells1...@gmail.com 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? 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