India, Aug. 1 -- Apple Pay is down for thousands of users across the US, with many reporting they are unable to connect to wallet services.

According to Downdetector, outage reports began around 5 p.m. Friday. Users have reported issues with Apple Cash transfers, including difficulties sending payments to others.

Some users said they encountered two error messages: "Unable to connect to wallet services" and "User cannot receive payments sent with Apple Cash at this time."

Apple has not yet issued a statement on the reported outage.

One user complained, "Sent Apple cash, money deducted from my account however receiver never recd it."

Another added, "Can finally get past the pinwheel to send, then it times out after I do the face scan ...