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Apple Cash and Apple Pay outage hits US users

Minor Apple outage July 31, 2026

Outage timeline

Jul 31, 7:53 PM

Detected by StatusGator

Possible outage detected

1 hour and 45 minutes earlier

Apple Pay and Apple Cash not working

StatusGator detected a possible Apple outage while their official status page still reported no problems. An Early Warning Signal was sent to StatusGator users 1 hour and 45 minutes before Apple acknowledged it.
Jul 31, 8:11 PM

Social media posts
Social media complaints

StatusGator detected outage related social media posts.
- Reddit • Jul 31, 9:31 PM • about 2 months ago
  
  Is anyone else having this issue? Both my husband and I are. "Unable to Connect to Wallet Services" I then tried to transfer money sitting in my Apple Cash to my bank and am also having the same issue.
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Jul 31, 8:27 PM

Added by StatusGator

StatusGator note

StatusGator confirmed the outage by attempting several Apple Cash transfers and received an error message.
Jul 31, 9:38 PM

by Apple status page
Outage officially acknowledged

Warn

Some users may experience issues with Apple Cash at this time.

Affected components:
- Apple Cash
  
  Up
  
  Warn
Aug 1, 4:57 AM

by Apple status page
Outage resolved

Up

Affected components:
- Apple Cash
  
  Warn
  
  Up

Incident summary

Users across the United States faced disruptions to Apple Cash and Apple Pay, affecting sending and receiving funds, wallet connectivity, and tap payments. The issue was first detected by an early warning signal at Jul 31, 2026 7:53 PM UTC, roughly 1 hour and 45 minutes before Apple acknowledged the incident on its status page at Jul 31, 2026 9:38 PM UTC. Apple’s status updates then listed Apple Cash as degraded as the issue unfolded.