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App Store and iTunes Among Apple Services Experiencing Downtime [Fixed]

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A number of Apple services are experiencing an extended period of downtime, including the App Store and iTunes Connect. The iOS and Mac App Stores are displaying various error messages to users about being unable to connect or certain items being unavailable, as spotted by The Next Web, and iTunes Connect and TestFlight are also down for developers.

The outage is affecting a significant number of users in the United States, Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, India and many other countries worldwide. The downtime appears to have been ongoing for several hours this morning, although Apple has yet to update its System Status page to reflect the downtime for the iOS App Store, Mac App Store, iTunes Connect, TestFlight or any other affected Apple services.
@AppStore is the store down atm keep getting this message. Tried restarting already. pic.twitter.com/dM9qgQtgU0 - Calumk (@Calumk4) March 11, 2015
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Update 6:55 AM PT: Apple has updated its System Status page after the fact to reflect the downtime. Apple lists that iCloud sign in and mail was down for all users between roughly 2:00 AM to 5:45 AM Pacific Time, although it is clear that other services were affected as well. While the App Store and iTunes have returned online in some regions, a number of Apple services still appear to be experiencing intermittent downtime in several countries.

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Update 7:05 AM PT: Apple has updated its System Status page again to reflect the widespread iTunes Store outage ongoing since 2 AM Pacific Time.

Update 10:34 AM PT: In a statement given to CNBC, an Apple spokesperson said the downtime is due to an internal DNS error at Apple and that the company is working on a fix.
"We apologize to our customers experiencing problems with iTunes and other services this morning. The cause was an internal DNS error at Apple. We're working to make all of the services available to customers as soon as possible, and we thank everyone for their patience," Apple said in a statement to CNBC.
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Update 1:39 PM PT According to Apple's System Status page, the iTunes and App Store outage has been resolved.

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Can confirm. I've been having problems with iOS App Store and Mac iTunes store for a couple of hours now.

Kind of ridiculous, that social media is already full of reports, but the Apple System Status still display all-is-good green icons everywhere. What is the point of such system status page then? :confused:

https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
 
Thanks Macrumors. First place I checked when I could not connect was the Apple Status page which showed everything green.
 
Can confirm in Denmark.

Can't use app store or find my iPhone. At first I reset my password because it said it was wrong, and then with the new password it still failed.

Thanks MR. Thought it was just me!
 
Ontario, Canada. Problem on my Mac is intermittent. Problem on my iPad is persistent. Can't get at the App store at all.
 
Almost a world wide outage... I can confirm that the iTunes Services are down in Australia. Also, don't log out of the store because I did and I can't get back in....
 
In UK, can't access iTunes Store or quite a few iCloud services...

Panicked and rang apple support - they were very little help as some of their services are down, such as screen sharing... also can't book genius appointment because that is down...

It is frustrating as people have said, as all the services are green on apple support page when clearly they aren't... The problems I'm having will hopefully be sorted when apple sorts itself out, but I've had quite a few stressful hours...
 
Youfight1 said:
Cupertino still asleep, will be fixed when they wake.
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I consider it very unlikely that these services are maintained only by "9 to 5" workers.

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cpireland28 said:
Panicked and rang apple support - they were very little help as some of their services are down, such as screen sharing... also can't book genius appointment because that is down...
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Sounds nearly like a DDOS attack on a wide range of Apple IP addresses. I don't see a reason otherwise why completely unrelated services should all be down.
 
MentalFloss said:
I consider it very unlikely that these services are maintained only by "9 to 5" workers.

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Sounds nearly like a DDOS attack on a wide range of Apple IP addresses. I don't see a reason otherwise why completely unrelated services should all be down.
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One group that comes to mind who were able to take down Microsoft Xbox and Sonys Playstaion. The Lizard Squad. Surely Apple will have top notch security?...
 
It seems intermittent. I've been unable to update the apps on my iPhone this morning but it has just started to update the Shazam app while the Outlook update still doesn't work.

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