{"id":106010,"date":"2026-08-18T14:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/106010\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T14:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T14:04:12","slug":"lloyds-halifax-and-bank-of-scotland-down-as-users-unable-to-access-app-and-online-banking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/106010\/","title":{"rendered":"Lloyds, Halifax and Bank of Scotland down as users unable to access app and online banking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thousands of outage reports have flooded in this morning<\/p>\n

(Image: Getty Images)<\/p>\n

Customers of Lloyds<\/a>, Halifax<\/a> and Bank of Scotland<\/a> are reporting problems accessing online banking and mobile apps.<\/p>\n

Downdetector <\/a>showed around 2,450 reports for Lloyds, more than 1,000 for Halifax and over 340 for Bank of Scotland shortly before midday on Tuesday (18 August). Users have also taken to X<\/a> to complain about the disruption, with some saying they are unable to use services online.<\/p>\n

Halifax was the first bank to confirm the reports, assuring customers they are “working hard to fix it”, the Mirror<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n

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Several users have shared error messages from their devices on social media<\/a>, with some people told that they have been logged out of their accounts.<\/p>\n

One Bank of Scotland customer said they were unable to access either the app or website for several hours. A Lloyds user complained that the disruption had prevented them from booking a flight online.<\/p>\n

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Customers have taken to X to report issues with their online banking services.(Image: MEN)<\/p>\n

Reports of problems with Halifax started to drop after noon. Downdetector showed 701 reports at 12.22pm, down from more than 1,000 less than an hour prior.<\/p>\n

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Screenshot from a user experiencing app issues.(Image: MEN)<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Lloyds Banking Group told the MEN that the issue was resolved shortly after 1pm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thousands of outage reports have flooded in this morning (Image: Getty Images) Customers of Lloyds, Halifax and Bank…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[21256],"tags":[20345,2861],"class_list":["post-106010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lloyds-banking-group","tag-lloyds-bank","tag-lloyds-banking-group"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@UnitedKingdom\/117116893080540276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/britain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}