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

[Sevendaymelee]

A sad reality of the times we live in. Yeah, everything is so much more convenient and easy to use compared to thirty years ago, but it's not all 100% better in all ways. Back then, the only things you had to worry about "going down" was your power and cable. Power went out like three times a year, and for like five minutes at a time, and the cable hardly ever went down. So your access to books, movies, music and everything else was far, far superior, even if less convenient.

 

[immac]

APPLE TV started getting “buggy” last night (4/2 around 23:00 central)…..at first seemed like buffer issues…had to restart a couple shows….. then lost all content……I use an ATV 4k as my streaming interface .

Got rid of MSM TV over 6 years ago….All I get is Apple content, Netflix and Prime…for mindless binge sessions……
Ive noticed an uptick in weird $#!t on ALL of my connected devices since I started staying VERY CURRENT on all iOS, and OS updates Since about end of ‘23
….I usually wait a month…..except for X dot x security based launches.

 

[NT1440]

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.

Yup. Most of the world’s services run off AWS, Google Cloud, Akamai (which we know Apple has contracts with), etc.

 

[TigerNike23]

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

But who will think of the shareholders?

/s

 

[tshrimp]

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

Ouch. I just signed up for Apple TV+ again and now can’t access. Worse things in life though 😃.

 

[JMStearnsX2]

I wondered why I was having issues with updating apps & accessing my iCloud settings...

 

[minik]

No wonder the 6-digit code didn't work on Apple School Manager earlier. Apple Music is down? Glad I still have Sirius XM as a backup.

 

[Riovfo]

iOS App Store working normal in EU

 

[Swift]

I wonder if this is a hacker gang getting ready for a ransom attack. Imagine the money they’d ask for.

 

[immac]

Another reason why I BUY my music and download it…..yet you STILL lose purchases when artists or their heirs pull stuff off of iTunes ….(WHICH IS BS IMHO….)

 

[mac4good84]

Apple Music and Apple TV+ now working for me again.

 

[schneeland]

iOS App Store working normal in EU

Seems to be back indeed.

 

[danpass]

Hurricane prep to the rescue ….

That’s right streaming fans … I’m watching my various Apple shows and movies.

I made it a practice to download all the shows and movies that I buy through Apple.

With the ATV box I connect to ‘Computers’ and it reads my network connected Mac M1 Mini. An external drive connected to the Mini has all my downloads.

Watching The Martian at the moment

 

[burgman]

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

You can’t be serious… oh wait

 

[Rigby]

Another reason why I BUY my music and download it…..yet you STILL lose purchases when artists or their heirs pull stuff off of iTunes ….(WHICH IS BS IMHO….)

Music purchases? No, you don't lose them. The downloads have been DRM-free for years.

 

[Siliconguy]

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

You just had to click that button, didn't you.😉

 

[ouruniverse06131986]

Got damn. Is everything down today? Lol.

HA. That’s what my girl told me last night

 

[vegetassj4]

"...Apple School Manager have also experienced issues today."

When I was your age I had to take a brick phone to school

 

[vabello]

A sad reality of the times we live in. Yeah, everything is so much more convenient and easy to use compared to thirty years ago, but it's not all 100% better in all ways. Back then, the only things you had to worry about "going down" was your power and cable. Power went out like three times a year, and for like five minutes at a time, and the cable hardly ever went down. So your access to books, movies, music and everything else was far, far superior, even if less convenient.

I'm ironically reading this in the dark with no power for the last six hours which unfortunately usually happens more than three times a year where I live.

 

[jazz1]

"...Apple School Manager have also experienced issues today."

When I was your age I had to take a brick phone to school

When I was your age I had to take a telegraph to school it is so true most of us are dependant on technology. I got hooked many years ago.

 

[Plutonius]

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

I'm sure that Apple has redundancies where they can. There are many issues that can't be handled by redundancies (cyber attacks, etc.).

 

[sw1tcher]

We haven't had an outage since January so we were due for one.

Imagine if Apple was a bank as some people would like Apple to be. Yikes!

 

[frenchcamp49er]

"...Apple School Manager have also experienced issues today."

When I was your age I had to take a brick phone to school

Man you were rich

 

[vegetassj4]

Man you were rich

Nawww...they only cost a few clams

 

[Itinj24]

A sad reality of the times we live in. Yeah, everything is so much more convenient and easy to use compared to thirty years ago, but it's not all 100% better in all ways. Back then, the only things you had to worry about "going down" was your power and cable. Power went out like three times a year, and for like five minutes at a time, and the cable hardly ever went down. So your access to books, movies, music and everything else was far, far superior, even if less convenient.

So everything else is a plus. I mean, in the rare instances we do have a tech outage like this, you default back to when things were far superior. Or you can just get rid of all that tech and live like it was 30 years ago. It’s a win win situation for you.