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.

• Transactions (24%)
• Login (24%)
• Website (19%)
• Mobile App (19%)
• Withdrawals (10%)
• Transfer (5%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent NatWest outage reports came from the following cities: Birmingham, Salford, St Albans, Ludlow, Bristol, London, Maidstone, Plymouth, Telford, Burry Port, Westminster Abbey, Chard, Reading, Bromley, and Islington.

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Birmingham	Website	2 days ago
Salford	Login	3 days ago
St Albans	Mobile App	3 days ago
Bristol	Website	4 days ago
London	Transactions	5 days ago
Maidstone	Withdrawals	10 days ago

Full Outage Map

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NatWest Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  🏳️‍⚧️ Esther :3 (@ArchiveEsthers_) reported 7 minutes ago

  £40 refund? Not processed Nationwide app? Not loading NatWest? Not allowing money transfers My patience? Lost a while ago RSD? Wants me to kms Tesco self checkout? A ***** My 2 hour lab? Started 6 mins ago Might just steal potatoes, burn down Tesco, then kms tbh

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  brucie 🦇🔊 (@famousbruce) reported 12 minutes ago

  @Loopify NatWest stopped me from buying crypto since about 3 years ago. It’s not a new problem, but I agree it is ridiculous that we are stopped from spending our own money.

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  TheTinMen (@TheTinMenBlog) reported 12 minutes ago

  @jimthegiant @ZackPolanski The best and easiest way to help your local communities/society is to not hold your money with the big large banks, and move it into ethical banks, and local coops like Nationwide or the Coop. Don’t get me wrong, they are nowhere near as swanky as NatWest or Barkleys, and you’ll have to wait FOR AGES to get through on the phone, but they invest your money more ethically, and not in fossil fuels, or arms. Moving your money to an ethical bank is not as cool as running a marathon, or as virtuous as sharing some online campaign, but it’s way more impactful IMO. All my current accounts, business and savings accounts are with @CooperativeBank, but there are other good ones too. Consider doing it.

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  Smegton of the Kettle Isles (@Kettle_of_Smeg) reported 12 minutes ago

  @NatWest_Help And what would be the point of that? If you know anything about the web banking interface that NatWest customers have to interact with, you'd be able to very quickly discern that me sending you a load of personal details is a complete & utter waste of time. You'll probably instruct me to visit a help page or ask Cora, or some other inane convolution of pointless steps, or worse, enter the 7th circle of hell that is your automated telephone system. But at no point will I actually be able to speak to anyone who knows the first thing about the tools NatWest inflicts upon its customers, nor who has the slightest hope in hell of actually fixing it. This is most likely the result of the people you (& ultimately we, the customers), pay eye-watering amounts of "Consultancy fees" to, never themselves having had to use the systems they implement & which are likely coded by a team of crack slaves in an Utter Pradesh sweat-shop. So I don't, under any known usense of the terms, expect a satisfactory resolution, but I did get to air my grievance.

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  Pulp Librarian (@PulpLibrarian) reported 14 minutes ago

  Smiley Culture: NatWest On Line (1986). This is one of two adverts reggae star Smiley Culture did for the bank, promoting their On Line bank accounts aimed at teenagers. UK banks leaned heavily into the teenage market in the 1980s, on the assumption that customers rarely changed bank accounts. If you got the customer young they would stay with you for life, so why not give them a cash card and a free sports bag when they were 14?

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  Michael Wilcox (@mj_wilcox) reported 17 minutes ago

  @JustEatUK @CUSTOMERRE58657 I have raised a chargeback with NatWest. Awful I’ve had to go to these lengths.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 20 minutes ago

  @WhatsGoinO25301 @Jvnior Tommy Robinson has claimed that major UK banks like NatWest, Lloyds, and HSBC closed his accounts due to his views, making it hard to bank there. However, he has used online banking alternatives. Some sources dispute the full extent of these claims amid his tax and bankruptcy issues.

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  Serena Joy (@realdoll03) reported 21 minutes ago

  @fiffihunnybunny It’s impossible Fiona. How difficult do they want to make it? I’ve been with them since 14 and never had this difficulty. I’ve noted NatWest. Thanks 🙏

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  Nick Greenacre (@nicknet100) reported 23 minutes ago

  @SayNo2SizewellC What do you believe you know that the planning authorities, Natwest and Bpifrance Assurance Export (the insurers/underwriters) do not? And secondly, do you not see the irony of opposing a clean energy project, the success of which help prevent sea level rise?

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  Erin 🍉 (@anon_alice_) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Shellfromzero That's **** for you babe. A long time since it happened with Natwest (thank god) but I remember it could be stuck a while xx

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  Martin Longley (@devymaster) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Woodywudpeck Maybe pinch a few NatWest for longer term as looks like they’re down 10%, or maybe will wait to see if they fall a bit more the next few trading days. #indecisive

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  Dr HOX ENDUCTION HOUR 🌻🎩🧐 (@hoxtonwanka) reported 28 minutes ago

  @K_Niemietz there's a lot of space between the skyscrapers so they get to speak for themselves. the problem in the city at the moment is that they've all been clustered together. it used to look way more impressive when you just had the Gherkin, Natwest buildiing and LSE building

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  Nde Ehugbo (@CaptEnai) reported 30 minutes ago

  @Big_Mck I used to once use my NatWest, Lloyds card in Nigeria ATM. No issue. Problem started with Buhari

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  Di Beirne (@ScattyCat) reported 32 minutes ago

  @NatWest_Help Hi Mikyla - thanks, I'm still having the same problem I'm afraid. I've just tried again now to make a payment to HMRC through their app but unfortunately, after their app transfers me to the NatWest app to approve the payment, I log in, then just get a blank screen. The ... cont.

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  Vermouth (@vermoutharc) reported 32 minutes ago

  UK summons emergency meeting with CEOs of 5 major banks (Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest, Santander) on Wednesday. Meeting aims to address economic risks from Middle East tensions, support customers, and discuss banking sector reforms.

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  Boogie Sham (@hard77593) reported 33 minutes ago

  Anyone had a problem with opening a NatWest business account? I've been waiting a month!! No one answers the phone, I've been waiting for 40minutes this morning, no one answered. Online you get Bots. Fed up!

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  ACF Equity Research (@ACFER01) reported 34 minutes ago

  RBS - the bad news never stops for this entity. Whilst an old story coming to a conclusion it is reminds us for just what an awful business RBS became, surely it is time for NatWest to vaporise this brand and its culture (for the benefit of shareholders as well as just because)? See more below @stockmark_it

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  LDNxGamingxDad (@AdhdDaddyLondon) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Matt_VickersMP The issues isn't changing him out. That is done for security reasons. The issue is not picking other amazing Brits to replace him. Shoving a badger on there is like the old NatWest cheques. It's not how our currency should be.

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  Car Autotrader (@autotrader80497) reported 42 minutes ago

  @hullkrofficial Awful ticketing system just continuously redirects back to the initial basket page after approving in the NatWest app. Improve it.

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  Xxxxxxxxxxx (@Xxxxxxxxxx72814) reported 42 minutes ago

  @JibbaJabb They keep building and they never get more affordable. The very fact banks like NatWest and Barclays are advertising mortgages where you can get a friend of family to help you pay it says one thing… houses are too ****** expensive. They need to come down

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  DJM Comments (@DjmComments) reported 42 minutes ago

  @TheFan886 @leclare_6 It would appear that WRU has drawn down a £30m loan to repay NatWest and Welsh Government. They also have a Rolling Credit Facility £25m plus the option to draw down £5m for future capital projects. The deal is in place for another three and a half years and they'll go to market again for better terms in about two years time.

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  Steven George (@steve_einfinity) reported 43 minutes ago

  @NatWest_Help @NatWestGroup anyone wanting any currency then don’t order from NatWest. Purchased currency 1st December, they didn’t deliver in time and I’m still awaiting refund. Theft at its best. Customer services are useless.Personal and business accounts to be moved shortly.

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  100 (@GhostNoFace0101) reported 46 minutes ago

  Go to get some help on NatWest bank app that stupid robot tells you someone wirh get back to you in 3hours these retards can’t even run a bank

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  Grok (@grok) reported 47 minutes ago

  @alexkoh @Trading212 Trading212 UK is FCA-regulated with strict CASS rules: client cash sits segregated in accounts at Barclays/NatWest/JPM (FSCS-protected to £120k/person/bank since Dec 2025). Stocks/ETFs are held by custodians like Interactive Brokers in ring-fenced accounts—your assets, not theirs. Mass withdrawals? They execute sells (T+1 settlement now), move proceeds from client pools. No fractional lending like banks, so no classic run risk. They've scaled through 2020-22 volatility surges without issues. Low fees work on volume + CFD/interest margins. Extreme crunch could mean temporary delays or wider spreads, but insolvency from UK retail exits alone? Unlikely—regs + capital buffers keep them operational. Solid setup overall.

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  mannat (@cricemm) reported 48 minutes ago

  who needs movies when you could just watch the natwest final ~ dadas shirtless celebration ~dada and sehwags partnership ~yuvi and kaif’s partnership ~ kaif’s “not bad for a bus driver” innings ~india chasing down 300+ also people need to quit underestimating the indian team

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  kati roll eater. cricket watcher. (@katirollcricket) reported 52 minutes ago

  Between this brain fade, and that in Bby that prompted Ganguly shirt waving at the NatWest final at Lords, has any Englishman done more to support terrific 🇮🇳 cricket memories than @flintoff11 ? 🇮🇳 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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  Paul mear (@spottywolf) reported 52 minutes ago from Ludlow, England

  @MartinSLewis Mortgage question - my fixed rate is up end of June with NatWest 🥲 Got 7 years left. Fix or tracker ?

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  Looney (@looneyluke93) reported 56 minutes ago

  NatWest app.. Not working great

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  ❤️citizen Macca (@P15pm) reported 57 minutes ago

  @thetimepls @deirdrecostigan There’s a difference between having an opinion and just punching down. People in Southall needing accessible banking aren’t the problem — decisions by NatWest are. This just shifts blame away from where it belongs.

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  Prepared Remarks (@P_Remarks) reported 60 minutes ago

  @InterGo10 “We had a very large customer that we announced Barclays. They did 20,000 Ultimate seats and 20,000 Duo seats. We also announced a number of other customers such as Anthropic, CACI, NatWest and Amazon.”