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Credit card processing is temporarily unavailable?

I'm having a problem with iTunes, please help.

iPhone 4S, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Aug 21, 2012 9:57 PM

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Nov 4, 2012 5:22 PM in response to NickN26

I was having this exact issue when I was set up to use PayPal as my payment method. I fixed it by -

1. going to my iTunes account and selecting None as my method of payment, then clicking Done

2. confirming this on my account page - which then said Add (or Set up, I can't remember) a Credit Card

3. on the Add a credit card page, I again set up the exact same PayPal account I had before.

4. I was then taken to the PayPal website to confirm that I wanted to use my PayPal account for iTunes purchases, and finally

5. I was taken back to my account page in iTunes, which looked exactly the same as before BUT...


The next time I tried it, my purchase went straight through! (And this was less than 5 minutes after I'd had the "Credit Card processing is temporarily unavailable" message.)


YMMV, but I guess a similar revalidation process would work for credit cards too.

Credit card processing is temporarily unavailable?

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