It’s been a very long time since I personally ordered from Starbucks, however at present, I assumed the streak was damaged when my iPhone buzzed with a gleeful “Your order is prepared!” notification.
However wait a minute — I didn’t order something!
I turned to social media and rapidly discovered {that a} bunch of different individuals have been getting the identical message stemming from their Starbucks app.
Starbucks is now sharing that the notification was a glitch. “Earlier at present, a push notification from the Starbucks app was despatched as an error, clients weren’t charged for an order if one was not positioned,” reads a company statement sent to Insider. The corporate says it was as a result of app struggling a partial outage.
Moreover, there’s an outage within the order forward and pay function, so Starbucks is inviting clients to go to drive-throughs and money registers as an alternative. Some clients on Twitter have been anxious their Starbucks app was hacked, mentioning that they might now not entry their order historical past.
Different customers remembered Starbucks has made odd notifications earlier than. Final March, the corporate accidentally sent out a test message that learn “Hiya test1 from seank,” which appeared to solely have gone to iPhone customers.
Up to now, it looks as if Android customers are as soon as once more spared from the Starbucks cyber scares. For some customers that open up the iOS app, they’re getting error messages resembling, “We’re cleansing up a giant spill.” Hopefully, it’s not a venti-size one.