What should I do if Barclays is down for me?

Check the card and the app separately. Card payments usually run on rails that stay up while the app itself is unreachable, and the reverse also happens. Avoid retrying a transfer that appeared to fail. Duplicate submissions during an incident are the most common way one payment becomes two. Try the website rather than the app. Mobile clients are updated more often and a broken release affects only the app. Wait before assuming a missing deposit is lost. Direct deposit and transfer settlement run on batch schedules that an outage delays rather than cancels.

Banking & Finance

Is Barclays down right now?

No, it’s up.

Barclays appears to be up and running normally.

checked 2026-09-08 03:50 UTC

responded in 46ms

HTTP 200

Over the last 7 days, Barclays has answered our automated checks with 100.00% availability and a typical response time of ~56 ms. No outages have been recorded in the last 90 days.

Barclays provides retail and investment banking in the UK. Online banking and the mobile app run behind a login, and payment rails such as Faster Payments are separate again from all of it.

Is Barclays down for everyone or just you?

Our automated checks are reaching Barclays normally right now, and it answered our last one in 46ms. That makes any trouble you are hitting more likely to be local to your connection, account or network than a full outage, which usually means you can fix it from your end.

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Barclays response time (last 24h)

Last 24h

peak 138 ms

Barclays incident history (last 90 days)

JulAugSep

up
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down
no reading

No incidents in the last 90 days, from our checks or Barclays’s own status page.

Barclays uptime

100.00%
7 days: 100.00%
30 days: 100.00%
90 days

Measured since 2026-08-21. Windows reaching further back are averaged over the 19 days we watched, not the full period. Counts our own checks. Days Barclays reported an incident are coloured in the timeline above but do not change this figure.

What to do if Barclays is down for just you

Check the card and the app separately. Card payments usually run on rails that stay up while the app itself is unreachable, and the reverse also happens.
Avoid retrying a transfer that appeared to fail. Duplicate submissions during an incident are the most common way one payment becomes two.
Try the website rather than the app. Mobile clients are updated more often and a broken release affects only the app.
Wait before assuming a missing deposit is lost. Direct deposit and transfer settlement run on batch schedules that an outage delays rather than cancels.

Frequently asked questions

Barclays appears to be up and running normally. Last checked 2026-09-08 03:50 UTC.

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