New Delhi, Aug. 1 -- Apple Pay was reportedly down in the wee hours of Saturday, with outage reports spiking on Downdetector around 3 am (IST). Many also took to social media to report issues with Apple Inc.'s mobile payment and digital wallet service.

As many as 1270 incidents of Apple Pay outage were reported on Downdetector at 2:48 am. Users told the outage-tracking platform they were unable to complete transactions or transfer funds through Apple's Wallet ecosystem.

The platform's data indicated that payment issues and funds-transfer problems accounted for most of the complaints.

Downdetector's data suggested the disruption was concentrated around money transfers rather than purchases. The platform reported that 57 percent of compl...