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Apple Pay experienced a global outage on May 16, 2025 affecting users.
The interruption started around 8:14 pm and lasted until 10:31 pm.
The affected services included Apple Wallet, Apple Card and Apple Cash.
Apple Pay experienced an important global outage on Friday, May 16, 2025, unable to make users unable to purchase or access. The disruption started at around 8:14 pm and began with the affected related services, including Apple Wallet, Apple Card and Apple Cash. Apple’s system status page indicated that the issues were resolved by 10:31 PM IST.
With over 745 million users worldwide, including over 60 million in the US, Apple Pay is the cornerstone of the company’s digital ecosystem. While Apple did not specify the number of affected users, it admitted that “some users may have experienced a problem with this service.”
Recorded on outge-tracking site dowtector 2,000 user reports in AmericaWith complaints of focus on payment failures and difficulties in transferring money. Disappointed users took on social media platforms to express their concerns and get information.
Dowtector’s outage map Major American cities including New York City, Los Angeles and Chicago shown issues of wider apple payment, as well as small -scale outages in UK and parts of Europe, affecting users’ ability to make transactions and use funds. There were widespread disruption across America.
Hundreds of users of apple pay users reported issues on the dowdater and social media, in which many received an error message, “Could not receive payments sent with Apple Cash at this time.”
A user commented, “All this is a problem with handing over to technocracy. App and services run on #Applepay, and when it goes down … The transaction is completely closed,” a user commented.
“Apple’s response? Do you think that Apple should be more transparent about such outage? How quickly they should accept and fix the issue”? Another user wrote.
‘Apple Pay Down is the last example of why a cashless society is a diastopian. Cash should remain so that we are independent ‘. A third user on X was written (earlier known as Twitter).