Apple Pay and Apple Cash are down for many iPhone users

Trying to make a payment using your iPhone? You might need to use a third-party service, as Apple Cash appears to be down, and Apple Pay looks to be struggling too. Apple Pay outages appear to have started around 11 a.m. Eastern Many users on social media have reported being unable to use Apple Pay today. Based on the reports, the issue seems to affect both Apple Pay and Apple Cash. These problems appear to have started shortly after 11:00 a.m. Eastern. I have verified that Apple Cash isn’t working for me or many other iPhone users. Apple Pay, however, appears to be a problem too. Personally, I had an Apple Pay transaction fail after a long delay around 11:50 a.m. then it worked after a re-try shortly thereafter. Reports online, however, indicate plenty of users are unable to make Apple Pay payments at all. Apple has not yet updated its system status page to note the outages. But we will update you when we get confirmation. [Update 12:36 p.m.: Apple’s page now acknowledges ongo ... Read full article.