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App Store and More Down as Apple Services Suffer Widespread Outage [Updated]

A long list of Apple services are currently fully or partially down, including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, and more.

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The full list of services experiencing outages for many customers, according to Apple's system status page:

  • App Store
  • Mac App Store
  • Apple Arcade
  • Apple Books
  • Apple Fitness+
  • Apple Music
  • Apple Podcasts
  • Apple Sports
  • Apple TV Channels
  • Apple TV+
  • App Store Connect
  • Apple Podcasts Connect
  • TestFlight

Apple Business Manager and Apple School Manager have also experienced issues today.

Some users are able to access certain features offered by these services, so your mileage may vary as Apple works to fix the issues.

Update: Apple's services are working again for some users.

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Top Rated Comments

midkay Avatar
26 months ago

It always blows my mind that a company of this size does not have redundancies in place to prevent something like that.
Of course they have redundancies. Not all outages are caused by a lack of redundancy.
Score: 18 Votes (Like | Disagree)
vipergts2207 Avatar
26 months ago
This is definitely because of third-party app stores in the EU. Damn you EU!!!
Score: 14 Votes (Like | Disagree)
26 months ago
This is why we should be able to download apps from any source.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
26 months ago
Quite a few services, not just Apple, have been down today.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
26 months ago
Apple losing a few million bucks is like you and I losing a few pennies. Not that stressful.
It makes me wonder what else is down not Apple related. Often times when I see things like this my first thought is what AWS, Azure or Google cloud system is down.
Score: 11 Votes (Like | Disagree)
26 months ago
Most likely issue is with AWS. I’ve had some socket hang ups today with them and explains why many other services affected.
Score: 9 Votes (Like | Disagree)