Update on September 23, 2022, at 9:36 PM EST: According to Apple's System Status page, the company has resolved all issues and outages affecting Apple Pay, Apple Card, and the Wallet app. If you were having an issue trying to add a card to Apple Pay or your Wallet app, you should be able to now. Also, if you were having trouble making an Apple Pay purchase through your browser, you should also be able to do that now.
If you're having issues with some of Apple's services right now, you're definitely not alone.
On the company's System Status page, Apple has confirmed that is it currently experiencing a number of issues that are impacting Apple Pay, Apple Card, and the Wallet app. The other services are currently holding up okay, but these ones are causing havoc for users.
According to Apple, all of the issues started around 10:42 AM EST this morning and are all still ongoing. The company says that some users may not be able to add Apple Card to the Wallet app, add cards to Apple Pay, or use Apple Pay on the web.
You can find out all of the details about the issues below:
- Apple Card
- Today, 10:42 AM - ongoing
- Some users are affected
- Some users may not be able to add Apple Card to Wallet.
- Apple Pay and Wallet app
- Outage: Today, 10:42 AM - ongoing
- Some users are affected
- Some users may not be able to complete adding cards to Apple Pay.
- Apple Pay and Wallet app
- Issue: Today, 10:42 AM - ongoing
- Some users are affected
- Apple Pay web transactions might be impacted.
Apple hasn't said when the issues will be resolved
Apple has not said exactly when the issues will be resolved, but we'll be sure to stay on top of the System Status page and update this article once the company has addressed all of the problems.
The issues seem to be affecting users who are trying to set up their new Apple Watch Ultra which launched worldwide today. However, the problem doesn't seem to be limited to Apple Watch and is affecting people on their new iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro as well:
I guess Amex/Apple still haven’t gotten all their issues worked out huh pic.twitter.com/XGpDHSFKSNSeptember 23, 2022
The only people who will be spared from this affecting their new Apple product will be those who picked up the new AirPods Pro 2. While it might be a weird feature in the future, we all have to live without Apple Pay support in our earbuds for now!
