Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Paypal reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.

• Sign in (46%)
• Errors (34%)
• Website Down (20%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Paypal outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Sydney	Sign in	7 hours ago
Houdelaincourt	Website Down	2 days ago
Saint-Maximin-la-Sainte-Baume	Website Down	3 days ago
Colonia los Sauces	Sign in	3 days ago
Brisbane	Sign in	4 days ago
Northwich	Sign in	4 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Katherine Argent (@effthealgorithm) reported 5 minutes ago

  Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

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  Folurdir (@Folurdir) reported 9 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal Hello! I need help with a login issue. I need to reset my password but I no longer have access to the registered phone number. I cannot send you a DM directly. Could you please send me a DM so I can provide my account details securely? Thank you!

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  Ask PayPal (@AskPayPal) reported 9 minutes ago

  @uday1kiran Reliable ways to identify a PayPal number PayPal rarely calls you without request PayPal does not make unsolicited phone calls. If someone calls claiming there’s an “urgent problem,” it’s very likely a scam. Phone numbers depend on the country PayPal does not have a single universal phone number. Numbers vary by region and can change. The only safe way to confirm a number is: Log in to your PayPal account Go to Help Center > Contact Us Check the official phone numbers listed for your country If the number is not listed there, do not trust it.

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  Doug Woolley - Payments '𝕏'pert (@dougpayments) reported 10 minutes ago

  @RonColeman @Square @PayPal Yup that's the problem with payfacs - they're just too massive to be able to actually help It's the opposite with a traditional processor. You own your account... Call us, text, whatsapp, email... Think of us like a partner of your business that actually wants you to succeed and help you scale You'll be a lot happier

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  Sean Smith - Please Help Read Pinned Post (@seansmith) reported 10 minutes ago

  My Hoyer lift has broken. I need to get a new battery ASAP, and to order it will be about $400. I'm STUCK in my wheelchair because another lift is unsafe with my brittle bones. Any help sharing my pinned tweet/my PayPal, PLEASE, I need it...NOW. #ShareMyPinnedTweet

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  Maríada (@CaAnCaCa) reported 12 minutes ago

  Hi @AskPayPal I have a PayPal account registered in Chile but I currently live in Spain. I’m trying to close it to open a new one, but I get an unresolved issue error with no details. Can you help? Thanks 🙏🏻

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  x (@xaoticatech) reported 15 minutes ago from West Lake Sammamish, Washington

  @tesla_na I'm so sorry that I'll crush your business. The reason my physics equation powers Tesla is because I really like your company. Unfortunately, Elon would rather go bankrupt than fix his atrocious 1990s web stack or interfaces. PayPal boomer's legacy code, release 2.0.

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  Mimi✿ (@Miimilkybo) reported 22 minutes ago

  @Nataenha_ I'm too sad tbh bc i was so close to getting VIP1, but then PayPal had problems...

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  renagadelang (@renagadelang) reported 24 minutes ago

  @FanDuel_Support I tried to withdrawn to my paypal like I have been for years now and it keeps denying it. I got on a chat log with fanduel with somw lady who named Rene and she was terrible. No help what so ever trying to see why its not approved for withdraws when used last wek

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  𝐂𝐈𝐑𝐈_𝐕𝐓🐾🪶 (@Ciri_VT) reported 25 minutes ago

  @xmysticdancex The intent was clearly to help creators protect their personal information, which is important. The issue is that the original post framed it like “switch to a business account to hide your info,” but did not explain what using a business account actually means. A PayPal Business account is not just a privacy toggle. It is meant for people receiving business payments, invoicing, selling goods/services, taking commissions, etc. There can be tax, verification, recordkeeping, and account-setting implications. OP only clarify much later her error, but some people might not see that (since its not in the original post). That is why I wanted to add the warning respectfully.

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  The Apostle Natalie Young 🎤 RHL Ministry Radio (@ApostleNatalie) reported 25 minutes ago

  I'm trying to figure this out because I have to create an invoice and none of the items are correct. We no longer are going to use PayPal we can't even get the money out the portal cuz I'm not going to give them a credit card. The tech world is frustrating I cannot say that enough and we don't have enough protection. I don't think I'm going to ever get over it. It's low down and ***** and it needs oversight that it's never had.

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  Zack Azharemys, a Vtuber Merc in training (@Azharemys) reported 26 minutes ago

  @SparkysTech @PayPal I'm sorry mate. That is absolutely a terrible situation... I really hope you can recover the money :/

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  yul🪽 (@rosesvasline) reported 27 minutes ago

  @whoiscalaca @yuerivt in this case the artist asked the patreon team to talk to paypal then the issue was solved

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  Maverick (@Maverick_usa2) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Cointelegraph Big move by PayPal — doubling down on crypto and payments signals serious long-term commitment 🚀

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  CosmicD (@CosmicD) reported 30 minutes ago

  @NoMooreMercy @gabefollower honestly, they should trace these orders .. the problem is that legit players like me aso have been clicking for 33 minutes for my paypal transaction to work. But maybe it's a certain pattern they can discover with the type of email adresses used, addresses... and if they find it they should brick the controllers by serial number. (but only if they find a very legit way of tracing them)

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  Hama (@Hamayuwawa) reported 32 minutes ago

  @amyelrad Haha men are terrible but PayPal link in bio #womanmoment

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  Rick Rick.. nirvanafan#1 (@yesman000000000) reported 32 minutes ago

  now donnaai cant get a debit card or payment from paypal because they cant take visa os mastercard now.... fck it shut all the banks down then.... we dont need these people running ****.

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  Eden (@eden_bch) reported 32 minutes ago

  @vincenzo_micale The interesting question isn’t where they spend. It’s how they process. Psychic = MCC 7299, declined by Stripe, banned by PayPal. Whoever onboarded them solved the harder problem.

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  Sarcastic Geek (@gozkybrain4u) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Chinemife Your problem is confusing terminologies with actual understanding. Why hasn’t he built another PayPal!?

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  科技立委葛如鈞 Ko Ju-Chun (@dAAAb) reported 41 minutes ago

  Every payment protocol just got a passport office. Kite launched mainnet + Agent Passport — $35M from PayPal Ventures & General Catalyst, unifies x402/AP2/MPP/MCP under one identity layer, 90+ services, PayPal & Shopify pilots live. Stripe shipped Link wallet for AI agents — OAuth-secured spend requests, virtual cards per agent via Issuing for Agents, stablecoins "coming soon." Mac Minis sold out because of always-on AI agents. Alberta's $195B fund (AIMCo) bought $219M Strategy (MSTR) — first BTC allocation ever. National Bank of Canada holds $273M. Canadian institutions arriving through equity proxies while agents get their own wallets. AllUnity EURAU euro stablecoin → Solana. MiCA-compliant. DWS + Flow Traders + Galaxy. Euro stablecoin market doubled since early 2025. Payment protocols shipped for 6 months (x402 100M+ txns, MPP $5B+). Now the identity layer is consolidating them into one passport. The agent infrastructure stack is completing itself — from the top down. Consensus 2026 starts Monday in Miami. The conversation has already moved past "should agents have wallets" to "which passport do they carry." #AIAgents #Web3 #Stablecoin

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  Franc Hudi (@franc_hudi) reported 43 minutes ago

  @askpaypal I can't log in. App approval is forced and SMS codes expire immediately. I can't access my account. I'm very disappointed that PayPal has disabled contact or assistance without logging into my account. I'm having trouble logging in due to 2-step verification.

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  Aster 💤💚🎩 (@AsterDeluseanVT) reported 43 minutes ago

  God, so much to do- Creating a business account without PayPal being an angry father is so frustrating, especially when I get error messages over the simplest of things.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 44 minutes ago

  @wellospov_ @avipat_ Kled is an iOS app that pays users to upload photos, videos, and other everyday content from their camera roll. That data gets licensed (with consent) to AI companies for training models. No ads, fast payouts via PayPal/Venmo/Solana. It's been out of beta a few months and has seen massive uploads, but they've had fraud issues in some regions like Nigeria.

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  Exedious (@Exediouss) reported 45 minutes ago

  @V0IDEYEDPANDA could try checking your email, usually most companies will send you an "unknown login location!" email, but i'm not too sure about paypal?

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  Marvin (@aleksandarsix) reported 46 minutes ago

  @AskPayPal i can not do anything sice i do no have paypal account, did you even read the issue?

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  Tammy Reed (@TammyRe54042232) reported 48 minutes ago

  MR.BEAST is a fraud when it comes to his pay out online games. If he did pay out then he would be sending my PayPal account 4500.00 but not one cent. Any boby else having this problem?

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  Franc Hudi (@franc_hudi) reported 51 minutes ago

  @askpaypal I can't log in. App approval is forced and SMS codes expire immediately. I can't access my account. I'm very disappointed that PayPal has disabled contact or assistance without logging into my account. I'm having trouble logging in due to 2-step verification.

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  wendigHoe🇨🇦 (@69wendigo) reported 53 minutes ago

  @Dskins207 @PayPal they used to be REALLY good...if you got scammed they would always fix it. PayPal is saying that I signed up to some subscription. (was signed up with my email not by me obv) and that I did it but with ZERO PROOF of me doing it

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  Ƀ (@CryptoChrisG) reported 54 minutes ago

  Poached this tweet: “Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???”

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  ifourth (@ifourth) reported 55 minutes ago

  The hidden cost of eCom no one talks about: everyone holds your money. Stripe and PayPal hold payouts and skip weekends. Amazon pays every two weeks. Etsy holds yours too. Meanwhile Facebook Ads charges you every threshold, weekends included. You pay fast, you get paid slow. eCom life lol