Is that iOS?
Using your own wallet is not available on iOS, because Apple hates us. Primal would happily include it in the iOS version if they were permitted to.
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😢 thanks for confirming
I’ve logged into Primal via browser and used NWC and that worked! So, at least there is a way to zap from your Hub - just have to do it via the browser rather than the iOS app.
That's frustrating, since the native client will generally be a better experience. Glad there is a work around, if you want to use Primal in some capacity with your own NWC wallet.
If it makes you feel any better, connecting a NWC wallet to Primal on Android doesn't make that wallet show up in Primal's wallet interface. That part of the app just becomes useless. All you can use NWC for is zapping. You still need to use something like Alby Go for other wallet functionality.
I just looked into nostr:nprofile1qqsraldwhvwcjgltmxwfu7kw8dqef2692yhzheuurd7k3kfy8cxjdqg9cvnm5 on iOS and it has the NWC option and I was able to connect my hub to it and zap just fine!
So this means nostr:nprofile1qqs9xtvrphl7p8qnua0gk9zusft33lqjkqqr7cwkr6g8wusu0lle8jcq9vhrm should be able to do the same… unless Damus found a loophole…
Damus and Primal each made different tradeoffs in order to get Apple's blessing to be added to the app store.
Primal only allowed their own wallet, with the ability to buy sats directly within the app, and giving Apple their 30%+ cut out of each purchase, but users can zap individual posts by default.
Damus has no built-in wallet, and no way to buy sats directly and give Apple their cut, so they had to have zaps on individual posts disabled by default, so that users could only zap other users' profiles, rather than their posts. There is a workaround by going to https://zap.army and following the instructions there to enable a script that adds zapping of individual posts back into Damus.
It may seem like Damus was the clear winner here, being able to have NWC connected wallets, no 30%+ cut given to Apple, AND a workaround to enable zapping posts directly. However, I can attest to how confused users are when they first start using Damus and they can't zap posts. The AskNostr hashtag is filled with questions from Damus users about why they can't zap people. It's bad UX, but there is nothing that can be done about it, since zapping posts cannot be built into the app without Damus being rejected from the app store.