Some questions about "Charge to mobile" on iOS

[lanceuppercut]

I was looking around at "charge to mobile" options as I know Three do it for Google Play but not for iOS and EE apparently do it for iOS but only on pay monthly contracts.

So anyway I checked the Apple site about it (https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT205102) and it appears that O2 now offer the ability to buy apps and such on both pay monthly and PAYG now (https://www.o2.co.uk/charge-to-mobile), I'm not sure when this came in but, great, this might actually be of use to me!

I have a question though, if I have £10 on my PAYG card, but I'm wanting to buy something for £15, does it take the £10 from my O2 PAYG card then bill the rest to my iTunes account or does it flatly refuse because I don't have enough credit on the PAYG card?

I know it does that with the App Store if you have credit, it takes any credit you have first then uses your payment method for any outstanding amounts.

If I buy something like this (https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B079Z947MP), how long does the £10 credit stay on my card for?  I think I read somewhere most PAYG cards expire after 6 months of non-use, even if there's credit on it at the time?

Thanks.

[lanceuppercut]

If I have a number that's been disconnected due to non-use, if I call customer services and have them reenable it, does the credit I had on there at the time, get restored too?

[MI5]

Yes you can get the credit reinstated, usually around 24 hours after the number though, not immediately.

[lanceuppercut]

That's not too bad, good to know, thanks.

[Anonymous]

It's not axiomatic, I had an ''Orange" sim with credit, that was in a phone that was turned off for three years or so. EE went back to the legacy Orange team but the verdict was a resounding 'nous sommes désolé pour la gêne occasionnée, mais NON!, is not possible monsieur!'

[jonsie]

O2 will restore any credit that was on the account but you need to make sure you ask them to if the operative doesn't mention it to you.