Ryt Bank now supports Apple Pay. Here’s how to add your Ryt Card to iPhone and Apple Watch
- ID
- 32121
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 06 Oct 2026, 11:31 AM
- Fetched
- 06 Oct 2026, 12:11 PM
- Provider
- SoyaCincau
- Category
- malaysia-tech
- Original URL
- https://soyacincau.com/2026/10/06/ryt-bank-supports-apple-pay-how-to-add-to-apple-wallet/
- Source URL
- https://soyacincau.com/feed/
Summary
- Score
- 3.0
- Created
- 06 Oct 2026, 12:11 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- saas_startup_foundersdevelopers
What happened
Ryt Bank enabled Apple Pay on 6 October 2026, letting users add the Ryt Bank Visa Debit Card — including the virtual card, no physical card required — to iPhone and Apple Watch; SoyaCincau reports it as the first licensed digital bank in Malaysia to support Apple Pay, after Ryt added Google Wallet in January 2026. Separately, Ryt Bank said its eKYC system now supports the new MyKad rolled out on 17 September 2026, after many eKYC systems had trouble identifying it because the redesign moved the chip to the rear and the cardholder photo from right to left. Ryt Bank said it worked with its eKYC technology provider on the fix, prioritising affected customers' pending applications.
Why it matters
The Apple Pay part is consumer convenience, not a build decision — nothing changes for you unless you use Ryt Bank personally. The eKYC item is the one that matters: a national ID redesign (17 Sept 2026) broke identity verification across multiple Malaysian eKYC systems, and Ryt needed weeks plus a third-party vendor to recover. If your product onboards Malaysian users via MyKad, the concrete action is to test your own KYC flow against the new card format and confirm whether your provider handles the relocated chip and flipped photo, and to know your manual fallback before the next ID or document format change.
Discussion angle
If a national ID format change can silently break onboarding for weeks, what does your fallback path look like — manual review queue, alternate document, or vendor SLA — and would you have noticed before your signup numbers dropped?