Apple Pay and Apple Cash Hit by One-Hour Outage: Users Left Unable to Complete Transactions

Apple Pay and Apple Cash Outage Resolved On Friday, May 16, 2025, several Apple services, including Apple Pay, Apple Cash, Apple Card, and Apple Wallet, experienced an outage that lasted just over an hour. The issues began at around 11:14 AM Eastern Time, with users reporting difficulties completing transactions. By 1:01 PM Eastern Time, all problems were resolved, as confirmed by Apple's System Status page. During the outage, many iPhone users took to social media to voice their complaints. This incident follows similar outages of Apple payment services in December 2023 and January 2025.