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hey welcome back guys so today on this
video we are talking about Wells Fargo
Bank and more specifically how to lock
and unlock your Wells Fargo debit card
if you lost it or you're not sure
exactly where it is or maybe you want to
put some sort of a hold or a restriction
on it so let's go ahead and talk about
this first off I'm gonna go ahead and
open up the Wells Fargo Bank app if you
don't have the app already be sure to
check the video description below I'll
try to leave a link there or you can
simply go to the Apple Store or Google
Play and download it just look for Wells
Fargo it's this red yellow and white app
right here so I'm gonna go and open it
up now alright so I went ahead and
opened up the app right now and it is
asking me to login
I have not registered my touch ID yet so
I'm gonna go ahead and login now off
screen alright I went ahead and logged
into my Wells Fargo mobile app and again
what we're doing is locking your wills
Fargo debit card a brief rundown on why
you would want to do that well there's a
couple of different reasons first and
most obvious would be if you lost your
debit card but you think you might find
it at one point in the near future so
this is a lot different than reporting
your card lost through the bank because
by locking the debit card it helps avoid
any kind of transactions or at least
most transactions from billing onto the
debit card while it's out of your
possession and you can easily reactivate
the debit card if you find it and I'm
not sure if you're like me but I have
encountered this a few times I think
that I've lost my debit card it's not my
wallet I've looked all over the place
and then come to find out two days later
it's in my pants pocket and if you
report your card lost through the bank
then that means you're gonna have to
wait for one to be mailed to you or
replaced at a branch so that can be kind
of inconvenient this is a good way to
kind of put it on hold help avoid any
kind of fraudulent transactions and
still have the opportunity to reactivate
the card if you find it but how do you
do that through the app so let's go
ahead and go through the steps first off
like I said you want to go ahead and log
in through your Wells Fargo banking
mobile app once you've done that what
you want to do is go ahead and click on
the account that you're working with if
you have multiple accounts be sure that
you're choosing the correct account that
you want to work in for me I only have
one Wells Fargo account so I'm going to
go ahead and click on that now
all right I went ahead and clicked into
my Wells Fargo checking account on the
app and then the next place you want to
go is right here on this top line it has
a lot of different options for your
checking account we're not gonna worry
about those what you want to do is go
ahead and scroll all the way to the left
until you see more and that's these
three little dots right here once you
open that it's gonna open up a drop down
menu so I'm gonna go ahead and do that
off screen now all right so I went ahead
and open up the more services menu and
what you want to do is scroll down until
you say turn card on or off and they're
referencing your Wells Fargo debit card
turning it off or on so I'm gonna go
ahead and click on that now alright so I
went ahead and clicked on that and then
here is the menu option so as you can
see on the top turn card on or off and
what that's going to do is go ahead and
pause the debit card so right here you
can see a couple of different options
the first one is to turn off your debit
card your Wells Fargo debit card and
that will prevent most new transactions
from billing but keep in mind that any
kind of recurring transactions could
stop bill on to the account so that
could be a good thing or a bad thing if
you have a gym membership or some kind
of subscription service that bills
monthly that's still usually gonna go
through so just be aware of that this
next option allows you to turn off
transactions that would occur outside of
the United States so that's kind of a
neat function if you don't do a lot of
transactions out of the u.s. you might
want to go head and have that off and
that way if somehow someway someone
duplicate your card overseas they can't
use your Wells Fargo debit card so if
you want to go ahead and disable your
Wells Fargo debit card it's pretty
simple this looks like a slider but it's
actually a button so if you want to turn
it off right now it's in the on position
with because it's green if you want to
turn it off you just simply touch this
button there you go and it's thinking
and now it says that the card is now
turned off and it does give you more
information right here you're welcome to
read through it it's basically saying
that most transactions will now be
declined while that card is off and also
that they are gonna send an email or a
notification that your card is now off
I'll go ahead and show you that email
now all right so I just got that email
confirmation here it is and it's just
confirming that the Wells Fargo card has
been turned off as I had requested so
make sure that you understand you will
receive that in your email inbox
and then you'll also receive one once
you turn it on so let me go and flip
back to the app and then we'll go ahead
and turn the app back on all right so
here we are back in the app and we're
gonna go ahead and turn on our Wells
Fargo debit card now and all you do is
just click on this button once again and
it's thinking and there you go now the
button is turned green so that way you
know that the card is now turned back on
the nice thing is your debit card number
through Wells Fargo does not change when
you do this that Wells Fargo debit card
number will stay the same now when you
do turn on your debit card again you
will receive another confirmation email
confirming that the debit card has now
been turned on let me switch over to
that email and I'll show you that all
right so here is a copy of the email
that I received confirming that the
Wells Fargo debit card has been turned
on as we had requested and also this is
the email account that I'd set up when I
set up my online banking through Wells
Fargo so if you have multiple emails
just be sure that you remember the email
account that you set the account up with
let me switch back over to the app
alright so there you have it that is how
you disable and enable or turn off and
turn on your Wells Fargo debit card if
you know an easier way to do this be
sure to leave me a comment below I'm
always kind of curious but hopefully you
found the video useful if so click
thumbs up and I hope to see on the next
one thanks for watching
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