How to get rid of "Finish Setting Up Your iPhone" badge?

I upgraded to iOS 11.2.

There is now a red badge under Settings on "Finish Setting Up Your iPhone.

Under Settings>Finish Setting Up Your iPhone there are two apparent options:

• Back, and
• Set Up Apple Pay

How do I decline Apple's invitation to manage my financial transactions and mine them for data?

Solution 1:

1. Go to Settings>YOUR_APPLE_NAME_HERE and click Sign Out if you have not already.

2. Go to Settings>Finish Setting Up Your iPhone and click Set Up Apple Pay.

3. Enter a fake Apple ID and/or password and submit. You will be told that one or both the Apple ID or password you entered was not found.

4. At this point there will be a Cancel button in the top left: click it.

The annoying red badge and the Finish Setting Up Your iPhone option should both be gone.

Solution 2:

After restoring my iPhone from a backup using iTunes, I was already signed into iCloud with my Apple ID. Yet I had this "Finish Setting Up Your iPhone" message and badge on the Settings app, which was super annoying. Whenever I tried to "finish" the setup, the set up would never finish because I was already signed in!

To resolve this (make sure you have a backup of your data before proceeding!), do the following:

1. Settings > Your Name > Sign out
   • Enter your password (this will turn off Find My iPhone which is ok)
   • You will be asked what info your want to keep on device. I didn't keep anything because I backed up my phone before this using iTunes.
2. Settings > Finish Setting Up Your iPhone
   • Follow the process, sign in with your Apple ID and password and finish all the steps.

Now everything works and there is no more red notification icon on the settings app on the home screen!