NatWest status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of NatWest 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 NatWest users through our website.

• Website (37%)
• Mobile App (32%)
• Transactions (11%)
• Login (11%)
• Transfer (11%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent NatWest outage reports came from the following cities: Plymouth, Buckingham, Milton Keynes, Manchester, Maidstone, London, Dunfermline, Leicester, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Stalybridge.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Plymouth	Mobile App	7 days ago
Buckingham	Login	7 days ago
Milton Keynes	Transfer	20 days ago
Manchester	Website	2 months ago
Maidstone	Website	2 months ago
London	Mobile App	2 months ago

Full Outage Map

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NatWest Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Mando (@AcFanatic2020) reported 4 minutes ago

  @johntierney73 @NnatMmac @NatWest NatWest are still **** like this

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  IrrationalSloth (@IrrationalSloth) reported 7 minutes ago

  @DaveCrypto101 @pokemondealsuk Natwest provide virtual cards and i had no issues, though ive not used their virtual cards

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  Lyn Hamilton (@LynHami27606202) reported 7 minutes ago

  Anyone else having problems with their NatWest Banking App following the last 2 phone updates? Last time I had to phone NW and they said they had others saying the same. I had to delete and reinstate my APP. I had an update last night and now can’t get in my NW Banking APP again

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  MarketNewsFeed (@MarketNews_Feed) reported 8 minutes ago

  NATWEST H1 2026 EARNINGS - Q2 PRETAX OPER PROFIT GBP 2.29B (EST 2.01B) - H1 IMPAIRMENT CHARGE OF £280 M, PREV Y/Y £226 M - KEEPS ORDINARY *** AROUND 50% ATTRIBUTABLE PROFIT - SEES 2026 ROTE +19% - STILL SEES 2028 ROTE ABOVE +18% - STILL SEES 2028 CUSTOMER ASSETS AND LIABILITIES RISING +4% FROM END 2025 ...

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  Matt Connolly (@MattCon90191238) reported 10 minutes ago

  @ikeijeh @MetroUK Until quite recently the City had done a good job of resisting ugly modern towers (with the exception of Natwest Tower). And then suddenly in the early 00s the gloves were off and it became a free for all. Was this down to any one individual?

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  mitchelle holland (@mitchlog) reported 10 minutes ago

  @Resist_CBDC Natwest bank tell you to download carbon tracker on their app said would help reduce my bills 😵‍💫😵‍💫

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  Tommy P (@TomPowell6742) reported 12 minutes ago

  @stephenpollard Tesco/NatWest comparison assumes all businesses are the same. But Rail is a natural monopoly and already depends heavily on the state. It's a question of public service versus commercial service. Rails different as passengers can't switch provider in any meaningful sense.

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  geekgoddess (@geekgoddess2024) reported 13 minutes ago

  I was in a union at NatWest and honestly they seemed more interested in protecting the company relationship than representing ordinary staff. So spare me the lecture that unions automatically speak for all working people.

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  lauren ୨୧ (@michellesdowden) reported 15 minutes ago

  natwest resolved my problem in my favour hahahahahaha shame @ booking . com

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  The Morangutan (@MorangutanMan) reported 19 minutes ago

  @Jenny_1884 I was thinking about the little things from back then that nobody remembers these days. People stopping you in the street to ask if you know what time it is. Those plastic guards that went up and down over the Natwest/Midland bank ATM. Silly things like that.. Yes take me back.

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  WGCitizens (@WGCitizens) reported 20 minutes ago

  My reward for years of customer loyalty to NatWest bank? Their pockets stuffed with profit and the high street branches closed, including WGC. Customer service? Nah, just shareholder fixation…and a failure to support those who’ve supported their company.

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  jackduk (@jackduk1) reported 21 minutes ago

  @DebtFreeBy30UK I'm no expert, but it might make sense to pay minimum on your cards, throw everything at Monzo, then MBNA, Barclays then NatWest. Don't bother investing with this much debt. Squeeze some out of your weekly spend, even 30 quid a week will help. Move debt around to 0% early.

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  Ali@Makely (@MakelyStudio) reported 23 minutes ago

  10 years. 50M+ users. £11M+ revenue impact. Citibank. Mercedes. Sky. Virgin Media. NatWest. I spent a decade fixing conversion problems at companies most startups would kill to work with. what I learned: the same broken patterns show up everywhere - onboarding that loses people in the first 60 seconds, pricing pages that confuse instead of convert, signup flows with friction nobody ever fixed. now I build the same systems for funded startups.

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  Mark (@MTrad25) reported 24 minutes ago

  Friday 31 July — what’s moving The week ends with the cleanest illustration of the new rule anyone could ask for. Apple beat on almost everything. Revenue $109.4bn, +16%. iPhone $54.25bn, +22% — its best ever June quarter. EPS $2.02 against $1.89 expected. The stock fell after hours, on guidance. Amazon raised full-year capex to $220bn — a number that would have been punished a fortnight ago — and jumped ~8%, because AWS grew 36.7%, its fastest in over four years. Microsoft up, Meta down, Amazon up, Apple down. The market is neither rewarding AI spending nor punishing it. It’s grading proof. Note the casualty: for two weeks Apple was the hedge, capex at 1.8% of revenue making it the place to hide from spending anxiety. On the night the spenders got paid, abstaining stopped earning a premium. Asia took the same message and amplified it violently. The KOSPI rose as much as 17% — its best day on record. Samsung and SK Hynix up near 30%. Taiwan +7%, Nikkei +5%. Now the number that matters: the KOSPI is still down ~25% for July, its worst month since 1997. A 17% day inside that is not recovery. It’s a market with the leverage stripped out of it — Korean authorities spent the week reining in leveraged products that had wiped out retail savings. And the FX story is the week’s thesis in miniature. Japan and Korea intervened jointly on Thursday — unprecedented, with the yen near a 40-year low. Then the BoJ held rates on Friday and the yen went straight back to 160.69. Coordinated intervention by two states bought roughly one session. Nothing about the rate differential changed, so nothing about the yen did. Which rhymes with the central banks. The Fed’s statement was near-identical to June’s — one verb and three dissenters — and Warsh signalled a step back from forward guidance. The BoE held 3.75% on a 6-3 vote, three hawks where two were expected, then Bailey immediately told reporters not to read it as edging towards a hike. September hike odds fell to 40% from above 50%. The bond market’s answer: long-end US yields near 19-year highs while the short end eased. A steepener built on doubt that anyone can anchor inflation. In London: the FTSE 100 touched a record 10,979.60 intra-day then closed down 0.1%. Rolls-Royce led, +6%, on H1 operating profit up 17% to £2.42bn. Today: NatWest, Taylor Wimpey, ITV, plus Exxon and Chevron. FTSE futures +0.4%. This was the week guidance died. Warsh won’t give it. Bailey disowned his own committee’s. Two governments spent reserves defending currencies and got a day. And Apple’s forecast cost it more than a record quarter earned. Everyone is being marked on evidence now.

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  Srijan (@ImSrijanG) reported 24 minutes ago

  @prasannalara algorithm podunga sir. Any chance of India chasing this down? Giving Natwest Final 2002 vibes

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  DJ-🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@DJUK61212471) reported 26 minutes ago

  Anyone on here using the natwest bank app , is it down for you too ? Not the normal 15 min maintenance break just unresponsive!

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  QuanChain (@Quan_Chain) reported 32 minutes ago

  Quantum readiness programs feel like progress. They aren't. NatWest and 10 others joined NQCC's QTAP cohort 3, awareness, not migration. Different problems. QuanChain's oracle-triggered key rotation solves the second in under 90 days, no protocol vote. Should regulators require migration proof, not just program enrollment, before 2028?

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  LiveSquawk (@LiveSquawk) reported 33 minutes ago

  NatWest H1 2026 Earnings - Q2 Pretax Oper Profit GBP 2.29B (est 2.01B) - H1 Impairment Charge Of £280 M, Prev Y/Y £226 M - Keeps Ordinary *** Around 50% Attributable Profit - Sees 2026 ROTE +19% - Still Sees 2028 ROTE Above +18% - Still Sees 2028 Customer Assets And Liabilities Rising +4% From End 2025

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  Teds (@Tedtalks13) reported 34 minutes ago

  Sorry also lloyds BAU NatWest BAU HSBC uk bau With foi of all collaborations or service agreements in IT

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  Friedericke Johnson (@Alfonsiawarrior) reported 34 minutes ago

  @BarclaysUKHelp @NatWest_Help @firstdirecthelp - NatWest after 20yrs lost £500 on fraud w no help so want strangle them, Barclays close a/cs via HQ, discrimination, FirstDirect just plain ignore you! Left them all!

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  Ali@Makely (@MakelyStudio) reported 37 minutes ago

  the thing AI has never once been able to do is walk into a room, understand the real problem before anyone's articulated it, and make a call that changes the direction of the product. I've done that at Sky, Virgin Media, NatWest and Citibank. that's still the job. and it always will be.

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  Alison (@norallie) reported 40 minutes ago

  @Nora11447402 @bmstewart2004 I hope it ends up a quick and painless experience. My bank was NatWest btw. Very good service from them and they understood my issue straight away. They even backdated it to my cancellation date when the first unauthorized debit resulted in my receiving the product.

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  Gabriel Sutton (@GabSutton) reported 46 minutes ago

  @WestStandWindy @MightyMillers20 He doesn’t need to do an awful lot though. Can probably transfer the operating budget into club accounts from the NatWest app on his phone from his yacht. Steve will know how to buy a player and run the football side. Head coach arriving tomorrow. He’ll have a managing director (Paul Douglas?) handling the non-football side. Facetiously, you’d say of all the things Tony Stewart has got wrong in recent years, having a holiday in May is probably the one thing he’s got right!

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  Don Carlo (@ddavek007) reported 50 minutes ago

  @greyfinance How do you explain the sudden message from your customer care that you do not receive funds from NatWest thereby seizing fund's for almost 5 days

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  Magic hat 🎩 (@themagic_tophat) reported 52 minutes ago

  𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻 𝗖𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝟭𝟭𝟱 𝗱𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻? I know a certain commentator on the case (who claims insider knowledge) asserts there’s been no decision as of 2 weeks ago. But I very much doubt an initial decision is still pending - I believe it’s been issued to parties. There’s no reason why we would hear if it had. Initial decisions have never been published or leaked prior to the Final Award before. Why do I think it’s been issued? Because it’s been more than 19 months since the hearing concluded. A delay as long as 19 months for an initial decision on liability would put the integrity of the decision at risk and would raise questions over the arbitrators’ intentions (did they delay on purpose to damage it). I just can’t see them having done that. For context, NatWest Markets plc v Bilta (UK) Ltd [2021] was ordered a retrial when its decision was still waiting after 19 months at the High Court. The Master of Rolls at the Court of Appeal absolutely blasted the delay. He said decisions like these should need a good reason to take over 3 months in the courts and if they do, they get closely monitored. For it to take this long in private arbitration when there’s a requirement in the rules for a decision as soon as practicable… and the arbitrators have been working on other cases… totally inexcusable if it weren’t already out. Career enders for the arbitrators. A hearing on sanctions and final award should be quick too. So no excuses. Only 3 possibilities I see: 1) Initial decision was already issued to parties and a Final Award is coming imminently. Before the season starts. 2) They have the Final Award already but they’re waiting for the end of the World Cup before publishing it (they shouldn’t do this and it could even open themselves up to damages if this were the case) 3) City launched an appeal after the decision on liability was issued but before the hearing on sanctions, thereby delaying a Final Award Number 3) would be novel (i.e., never done before) but the rules do not explicitly prohibit it. I’ve hypothesised it as a possibility for a while. If so, we might not hear anything until 2027. The longer it goes without a Final Award, the more likely I believe that’s what’s happened.

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  Joe Smith (@IzriteAD) reported 52 minutes ago

  @peterjukes This was literally 3 years ago, the article states the short position was held since the spring of 2023 before the announcement that coutts closed his account. If Farage got the letter in June 2023 but they were already shorting NatWest, then this will be a non-issue.

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  Helen Macdonald 🇺🇦🖤💜🖤 (@alpacapower) reported 56 minutes ago

  @MartinSLewis @DrFionaCares I am leaving NatWest after 40 yrs because my nearest branch is now over 7 miles away, there are no cash points & they can’t explain why my second set of 2 debit cards refuse to work in card machines. And don’t get me started on bloody Cora… Customer service is dead.

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  Vin @ Vintuitive ⚡🌐 (@Vintuitive) reported 58 minutes ago

  @Gold_Phishy @troyhunt @haveibeenpwned His bank, NatWest, told him that it is blocking payments to PayPal accounts for his protection. He has used the same account for years to pay me via PayPal without any problems, until now.

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  Ian Darbyshire (@Ian_darbyshire) reported 60 minutes ago

  @stevemiddi1 @ArturNadol7566 @LloydsBank I have the internal Natwest interest forecasts and they were all going down at that time.

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  Pizza factory (@Pizzafacto90385) reported 1 hour ago

  @NatWest_Help Hi Louise, thank you for your response. The card is not a NatWest card—it's an Ebix Cash Forex Card issued in India. I have already contacted the card provider, and they advised me to speak with the ATM owner/bank to see if the card can be retrieved. All of my money for my stay in the UK is on that card, so I'm finding it very difficult to manage without access to my funds. I would really appreciate any help or guidance you can provide regarding whether the card can be recovered from the ATM at Tesco, 825 High Road, Leyton, E10 7AA. Thank you for your time and assistance. 🙏🏻