{"id":2181,"date":"2022-04-21T17:30:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T15:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/ongoing-apple-pay-outage-affects-mastercard-credit-and-debit-card-users-u-fixed\/"},"modified":"2022-04-21T17:30:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T15:30:26","slug":"ongoing-apple-pay-outage-affects-mastercard-credit-and-debit-card-users-u-fixed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/ongoing-apple-pay-outage-affects-mastercard-credit-and-debit-card-users-u-fixed\/","title":{"rendered":"Ongoing Apple Pay outage affects Mastercard credit and debit card users [U: Fixed]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"source-title\">Ongoing Apple Pay outage affects Mastercard credit and debit card users [U: Fixed]<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-text\">\n<div >\n<p>Outages in Apple\u2019s online services are not unusual, but this one is rather peculiar. Some users may not be able to add their Mastercard credit and debit cards to Apple Pay on Wednesday, according to Apple. The company says there\u2019s an ongoing outage in its payment system, but it seems to only affect Mastercard users.<\/p>\n<p><span ><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Update:<\/em><\/strong> Apple says all issues have now been fixed and users should be able to add their cards to Apple Pay. You can read the original article below.<\/p>\n<p>The outage was confirmed by Apple on the company\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/systemstatus\/\">System Status webpage<\/a>, where users can find details about all of Apple\u2019s online services. There, Apple says that the outage on the Apple Pay platform began around 3:54 a.m. PT. The situation was briefly fixed at 1:23 p.m. PT, but the outage again affected Apple Pay users at 2:10 p.m. PT.<\/p>\n<p>Apple clarifies that only some users have been affected by the outage \u2013 more specifically, Mastercard credit and debit card holders.<\/p>\n<blockquote >\n<p>Some users are affected. Mastercard card holders may not be able to add cards in Apple Pay.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, the outage comes on the day Apple is rolling out Enhanced Fraud Prevention for Visa credit and debit cards on Apple Pay.<\/p>\n<p>Despite what Apple says, it\u2019s unclear whether today\u2019s outage is also affecting other parts of Apple Pay, such as NFC and online payments. Let us know in the comments below if Apple Pay is working as expected for you today.<\/p>\n<h2 >Read also:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>iOS 15.5 beta 2 hints at Apple Pay support for Bancomat and Bancontact networks<\/li>\n<li>Apple to rebrand iTunes Pass in Wallet app with iOS 15.5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n<p><!-- youtube embed -->\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-image\">https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/9to5mac.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2021\/06\/Apple-Pay-competitors-could-include-EU.jpg?resize=1200%2C628&#038;quality=82&#038;strip=all&#038;ssl=1<\/div>\n<div class=\"source-link\">https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2022\/04\/20\/ongoing-apple-pay-outage-affects-mastercard-credit-and-debit-card-users\/<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ongoing Apple Pay outage affects Mastercard credit and debit card users [U: Fixed] Outages in Apple\u2019s online services are not unusual, but this one is rather peculiar. Some users may not be able to add their Mastercard credit and debit cards to Apple Pay on Wednesday, according to Apple. The company says there\u2019s an ongoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pr.gagadget.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}