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Apple Card Outage Persists for Several Hours [Resolved]
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or the cloud servers - amazon, who else?
My American Express has an insane APR, but I pay everything off on the month, so have never paid a penny in interest. It's the other fees that they rape you with. Foreign currency fees, etc... I've been taken for that fee too many times. It's hard to tell if I've saved any money overtime too. I get 'spot' conversion rates, supposedly, and they are usually better than the inflated rates others charge, but still, sometimes it hurts on small things...
But it's such an honor to carry The Apple Card! Yeah... Hmm... Still can't share the one the wife has. I'm retired, so Goldman can require my credit report, and also require she doesn't have one anymore. It seems more trouble than it's worth. Wish we had it for the IMP we bought, but other than that, *shrug*... There are better cards, there are worse too... If Gringotts had a credit card... But wouldn't that be cool?
More likely iCloud.
A leak in the pipes. Definitely... For sure... Or something...
I also have zero balance but if something does come up I’m not going to use the high apr card. That’s all I’m saying.
Yeah, it was broken this morning and my purchase got declined. When I reached out through the app to see why, all I got was "We are unable to help you at this time". So I called, and got the exact same thing. Was super annoying. Used my other card to make my purchase.
Wonder if they were being DDOS'd? Good to see them get things back up.
More than you'll ever want to know:
www.f5.com
The short answer is yes. Both Visa and MasterCard have been DDOS'd before, pretty much any big bank or corporation has as well, often multiple times. None of the companies like to talk about it.
More than you'll ever want to know:
What Is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack? | F5 Labs
Learn how DDoS attacks can cripple your network, website, or business.
www.f5.com
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Apple Card outage in the UK is still going on. In fact it started years ago and shows no signs of resolution.
Mine, too. I think it was just the services that show your transactions and such, but, yup, fixed now.
Are there other cards that provide a service that shows up to the minute transaction details? I would imagine they have similar type outages, but they’re not named Apple, soooooo far less clickworthy.
Probably not a good card to revolve on anyways. I always pay my balance so APR is irrelevant to me anyways. If I was to revolve, I would be going for a zero APR card for a year or something or look for other solutions besides a credit card.
It may be one of those legacy things where having a low APR on a card makes someone “feel” better about the card? I believe there are folks that have low APR’s on this card, but I reckon they’re the folks that would absolutely positively NEVER have an opportunity to explore it’s use
Seems like there is a backlog. My 3 charges just came through 1 and 2 hours later.
Same. Some of my charges are still waiting to be applied to the balance interestingly enough. I have a $0.00 balance but at least 3 charges waiting to show.
One from this morning has yet to show in the Latest Transactions list.
As a new co-owner of the Apple Card I haven’t received any daily cash at all even though I have made transactions almost every day that have cleared and posted. Hoping Apple fixes this soon.
The card probably worked fine for making purchases though the article seems to imply that it did not. Apple’s quoted statement at the end says nothing about using the card for purchases. The problem was that you could not manage the card or view recent transactions. It would be the equivalent of logging into Citibank’s website and being told that the website was down for maintenance and to try again later.
NOTE: failure for purchases can be broken for any card when you swipe at the terminal and the terminal is unable to contact the bank to get an authorization. I’ve had that happen with all credit cards I’ve ever had. You typically have to use a different card and if that fails it usually means the problem is on the merchant’s end. Online retailers usually don’t show you this problem if they can’t authorize — they just try again before fulfilling the order.
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