Is there a benefit to alerting Apple Card of a large pending purchase for smoother approval?

Anybody else try to do that with an Apple Card?


Will be charging $10,000 on Apple Card later today for part of HVAC home installation. I wanted the charge to go through smoothly, even though it's still under my available limit.


Maybe it will be fine, but I alerted a different Mastercard credit card of mine of a similar HVAC charge today to avoid their fraud dept. from flagging it.


It doesn't seem as straight-forward to call any Apple Card fraud dept. number ...Just curious.



Posted on Apr 24, 2025 11:10 AM

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Apr 24, 2025 12:01 PM in response to Mac Jim ID

Well thanks, Mac Jim ID. I had seen that number but thought it corresponded to a generic Apple support I had seen earlier and didn't call that one. I went back to it to call and in fact it hooked me up to Goldman Sachs Apple Card support, and I did request the fraud dept. to let them know in advance.


(Incidentally, they said it never hurts to have them annotate the upcoming large purchase on my account, but it doesn't guarantee that it would automatically go through, and to just call them back at the same number to troubleshoot it then. The phone wait was only about 5 minutes, so I suppose I could do that again while the HVAC technician waits if need be.)


So thanks again, too bad I was my own impediment to progress.

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