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

[MacRumors]

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

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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[Gengar]

Apple Music is working for me (probably because I download my library), but the App Store is down.

 

[Fuzzball84]

Quite a few services, not just Apple, have been down today.

 

[PixelsMaster]

I’d love to know the number of millions per minute they’re losing right now. I would not want that level of stress.

 

[boswald]

No wonder I couldn’t browse Apple Music…

 

[nfl46]

Got damn. Is everything down today? Lol.

 

[alfonsog]

I’ve been fighting with Apple Music classical all day and I just got home and read this after realizing nothing Apple was working right.

 

[IAMDAVE1969]

Several systems down

 

[HiVolt]

It always blows my mind that a company of this size does not have redundancies in place to prevent something like that.

 

[midkay]

I’d love to know the number of millions per minute they’re losing right now. I would not want that level of stress.

Apple losing a few million bucks is like you and I losing a few pennies. Not that stressful.

 

[Gengar]

Quite a few services, not just Apple, have been down today.

I see WhatsApp is down.

 

[Hammerd]

AppStore has been down for about an hour

 

[kiranmk2]

Just as I try to activate a new iPad...

 

[DougieS]

Most likely issue is with AWS. I’ve had some socket hang ups today with them and explains why many other services affected.

 

[midkay]

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.

 

[1129846]

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.

 

[vipergts2207]

This is definitely because of third-party app stores in the EU. Damn you EU!!!

 

[jonnysods]

Aha - I kept mashing the refresh button on the App Store and rebooted my phone and thought I was having DNS issues on this thing. This explains it!

 

[TJFDenver]

WinVir is alive indeed

 

[jz0309]

never had this problem before there was an Internet
/s

 

[mac4good84]

Yeah I sit down to listen to some music and I can't get anything; I try Apple TV+ and that is also down. I just bought a new MacBook so I thought it was the hardware and I was losing my mind lol.

 

[falkon-engine]

Cyberattack ?

 

[supergt]

This is why we should be able to download apps from any source.

 

[Rok73]

I seriously just deleted a large app to download and install again. And the App Store is down LOL

 

[1129846]

It always blows my mind that a company of this size does not have redundancies in place to prevent something like that.

Chances are they do but sometimes you have a cascade failure or the fall back system fails.

I was at one place that a bad update got pushed to the servers. It got caught in a loop where it would throw an error. In processing an error it would throw another error repeat that loop and we basically DDos our selves. The kicker was it took 3 days for us to notice something was wrong due to other redundancies

Netflix has something called chaos monkey which test taking down system in real time randomly and forcing your redundancies to happen. Controlled chaos.