Originally Posted by
Loren Pechtel
I was out all day, when I got home last night I decided to see if anything along those lines was possible--and it's working fine! Absolutely no changes on our end, their system must have had some sort of hiccup. I am going to look into the account recovery stuff for future reference, I didn't know it existed.
And on my PC I'm not finding any "emergency contact" setting. Phone only, perhaps?
A lot of functions are either phone only, or much more intuitive on the phone versions. I think emergency contacts is phone only, but I can't state this with 100% confidence because it's possible that it's buried somewhere on the PC/Mac versions.
The "WeChat Team" contact is available on PC/Mac, and I've had good results fixing problems...apart from not being able to connect my BOC account (they want me to go into a BOC branch and ask them to swap my first and last names; that's not going to happen; thankfully Alipay isn't anal about this).
Following is a checklist of items if you want your WeChat account to be fully functional during your China trips:
-use a Chinese phone number that fulfills the real name registration requirement
-connect your WeChat account to one bank account; it doesn't matter if you actually use this bank account; you simply need it for WeChat pay to work at all
-get the health code miniprogram
-set 3 emergency contacts, and also use an easy (for you) password