Does anyone know, as I’ve a Barclays Basic account, how long it could be before they upgrade it to a standard bank account? Or is there no given time?
May call up and ask tbf.
I don’t think it’s a case of Barclays deliberately paying early; but once they’ve cleared all the transactions for Friday, everything after that is dated Monday, and they ignore Saturday and Sunday.
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NatWest used to do the same years back but they patched that.
I put an application through for a standard Barclays account in app, it tells me to call, I call and she’s saying go to branch - I said no the app is asking me to call, so I’m calling. . .
She’s put me on hold to find out why it said to call, which I’ve already quoted “we need to check some details, please call us” 
This will likely result in a complaint 
Update: she asked me to go through the application again, same result, so I need to go to a branch which is usually open 9:30-3:30 or whatever, my working hours 
They seriously need a digital team to do this.
Further more, she put me on hold to speak with her manager, and then cut me off.
Wonderful.
Another update: apparently it’s not within their ethics to call customers back after disconnection?
Maybe off shore, but here in the UK it is courtesy.
Baffled.
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There’s nothing great about Barclays to even lift a finger.
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Yep, Barclays are unnecessarily hard work for some things.
I’ve being trying to find out why I can’t re-open an account with them, without having to go into a branch. I wouldn’t mind that if they would see you without an appointment, just waiting for turn. They used to do that. Now it’s an appointment system, with a minimum one month wait, which is nuts.
It’s a 90 day wait if you’ve been rejected.
Or a 6 year wait if they closed your previous account; as I learnt.
It’s not rejected, they want to see additional Id and I left them, I transferred to NatWest . It must be about 10 years ago.
I have a Barclaycard, so all my details are current.
Barclays is my main account and has been since 2008 when I started working for them and had to open an account with them for my salary to be paid into. I was previously with NatWest prior to this since childhood.
I have flirted with others over the years since, mainly due to wanting to add to my card collection. I even went #FullMonzo back when they started offering current accounts but something always draws me back to Barclays. I don’t even think their app is as bad as some people make it out to be. It does everything I need. And I do have most banks’ apps on my phone that I play around with.
Oh and yeah, if my salary is due on a Monday (last working day of the month) then it shows as available from early hours Saturday morning.
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Come across to FD 
The simplicity is lovely
My parents were fiercely loyal to Barclays but having personally been burned by poor service years ago I wouldn’t touch them with a bargepole
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Illl see what my complaint brings; see if I can get a standard account from that and go from there.
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I think in my case, I’ll have to find another branch in another city. See if that yields any results.
I am mostly using FD, with Monzo for the virtual cards/pots.
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Have you ever switched your Apple ID region? It can cause a bug where updates do not show.
Na it’s still set to UK. It would say something like not eligible for your country or something.
I’ve a feeling it’s an iOS 26 beta 3 issue, unless others are able to get in?
Barclaycard app is the same.
A lot of people reporting the same issue with Barclays on MacRumors.
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Same for me, Beta 3. It’s not crashing like it used to in betas, so probably just needs someone at Barclays to update the version control on the server side.
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Barclaycard had an update earlier but didn’t fix it.
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App is working again on iOS 26 beta 3.
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Fixed for me too