Is Apple Pay down?
No. Apple Pay is working.
We load Apple's payment gateway host and its merchant validation endpoint. Checked from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt 2 minutes ago.
Last 24 hours · no failures
What Apple Pay says
Apple's system status lists no current issue for Apple Pay, read 7 days ago. Their page Ours is above, from trying the real thing.
Last 90 days
working 100% of the time since 19 Oct 2026 (10 days) (0 incidents)
No incident has been recorded yet.
Is it just my store?
If Apple Pay is working and your store still can't pay, the fault is in your setup. Bilby will walk your store now and show you the screen. Free.
Check my storeHow we check
Every 5 minutes, from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt, we load Apple's payment gateway host and its merchant validation endpoint. Not a ping. Not their status page.
Normally 1.0 s from Sydney, 461 ms from Virginia, 279 ms from Frankfurt — the slowest step we run, measured since 19 Oct 2026 (10 days).
How we check, in full — the method, the rule and our own four canaries
Also live
Put this on your own status page
It redraws itself every minute and links back here. Free, no account, no tracking.
<a href="https://navaal.ai/status/apple-pay"><img src="https://navaal.ai/status/apple-pay/badge.svg" alt="Apple Pay status" height="22"></a>Questions
- Is Apple Pay down right now?
- No. Apple Pay is working. We load Apple's payment gateway host and its merchant validation endpoint. Checked from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt 2 minutes ago.
- How do you know Apple Pay is down?
- Every 5 minutes, from Sydney, Virginia and Frankfurt, we load Apple's payment gateway host and its merchant validation endpoint. Not a ping. Not their status page.
- Apple Pay is up but my store isn't. What now?
- Then the fault is in your setup — your theme, an app or your domain. Bilby will walk your store, try to buy something, and show you the screen where it stopped. It's free.