Apple Card, Apple Pay, Maps and Messages Experiencing Outages [Updated]

[MacRumors]

Apple is having trouble with a number of services at this time, and along with problems that are preventing people from installing macOS Big Sur and slowing down third-party apps, Apple Card, Apple Pay, Maps, and iMessage are experiencing issues.

According to Apple's System Status page, Apple Card and Apple Pay are seeing a complete outage. Users are not able to complete Apple Pay transactions, and some users may be unable to apply for or manage an Apple Card on Apple.com.

Maps traffic and routing and navigation is also out, and Apple says that the services "may be slow or unavailable." The same goes for iMessage, with Apple saying that some users are affected and may be unable to use iMessage at this time.

It's not clear when these services will be functioning properly again, but if you're having problems with Maps, Messages, Apple Card, and Apple Pay, you're not alone. Users are also unable to install macOS Big Sur at this time.

Update 2:30 p.m.: According to Apple's System Status page, the issues with Apple Card, Apple Pay, iMessage, and Maps have been fixed.

Article Link: Apple Card, Apple Pay, Maps and Messages Experiencing Outages [Updated]

 

[idark77]

I have also problems with Apple TV+...

 

[Packers1958]

Just took this screen shot. A lot of issues.

 

[dontwalkhand]

I am just going to turn this off and try again in an hour. Was hoping to get to play with the new OS.

 

[ouimetnick]

I’m curious to know if this is a hack or DoS or DDoS attack? One thing to just have one service suffer an outage, but it seems numerous Apple Services are having trouble right now.

 

[Brendan03]

I posted on the Big Sur issues thread before this was posted -- For about 10 minutes I couldn't access my orders on the Store page, to check my tracking on my incoming iPhone 12PM. Was receiving a Gateway Timeout but it's since returned to normal.

May also be worth noting that the Apple Australia server status page is showing less issues.

Apple - Support - System Status

Status for all planned and unplanned events for Apple Services.

www.apple.com

 

[sw1tcher]

It was the totally jealous PC guy Apple brought back. He did it. He's the saboteur.

 

[NewUsername]

I’m curious to know if this is a hack or DoS or DDoS attack? One thing to just have one service suffer an outage, but it seems numerous Apple Services are having trouble right now.

Intel strikes back.

 

[-DMN-]

They gotta cut cost somewhere, now that they're including power adapters with the M1 MacBooks.

 

[dakwar]

 

[Larabee119]

Intel strikes back.

The Empire Strikes Back!

 

[JosephAW]

Did we ever figure out what caused the YouTube outage? Maybe it’s related?

 

[Mike MA]

Ouch, didn’t think about the likelihood of Apple Card facing an major outage. If Apple Music or TV+ are temporarily out of service this might be excusable. But not being able to do your payments (worse case on the road) is a no go, this requires zero downtime as you are used to from the traditional credit card companies.

 

[Canyda]

I legit think this knocked out my AirDrop, too, as it kept timing out on me between my work phone and personal phone more than an hour ago, and then about 15 minutes ago suddenly the AirDrop receiving pinged on my work phone.

 

[larrylaffer]

It sounds like the certificate validation outage is just trickling down to other services.

 

[CJ Dorschel]

YouTube was down and other services from other companies are experiencing issues.

 

[Toratek]

One wonders if this is some kind of server/ddos attack on Apple.

 

[gimbal]

Outage also affecting opening any app on most Macs. Apparently the outage (or overload?) includes ocsp.apple.com -- every time you launch an app, the Mac checks the ocsp server for certificate revocation. If the server is down there is a long time out, and the app just bounces and doesn't open. The solution is to go offline to launch the app, or, to block ocsp.apple.com in etc/hosts (or using little snitch). Apple doesn't seem to be acknowledging the issue - but Twitter is blowing up with Mac users confused as to why suddenly their Macs are so slow.

 

[jonblatho]

Ouch, didn’t think about the likelihood of Apple Card facing an major outage. If Apple Music or TV+ are temporarily out of service this might be excusable. But not being able to do your payments (worse case on the road) is a no go, this requires zero downtime as you are used to from the traditional credit card companies.

The Apple Card outage seemingly refers specifically to the application process. Even if transactions won’t run through via Apple Pay (which is apparently also experiencing issues), you do still have the physical card.

 

[jamescharley22]

System Status says Apple Pay and Apple Card are back up! ^u^

 

[luvbug]

"It's not clear when these services will be functioning properly again, but if you're having problems with Maps, Messages, Apple Card, and Apple Pay, ..." or your significant other, "you're not alone".

 

[Apple_Robert]

I am just going to turn this off and try again in an hour. Was hoping to get to play with the new OS.

Won’t be happening today. Maybe tomorrow.

 

[EatinPonies]

I feel so dirty... had to use Google Maps in CarPlay to get home this afternoon! Ewwww

 

[rmiller065]

Looks like Apple Pay is back https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

 

[clive27]

Maybe they upgraded their server with M1 processors.