App store is borked

[thebart]

MacOS 26.2

App store app is borked. Discover tab shows blank page. Searching for an app shows blank page. Oddly enough, I can still update apps that have updates

My Internet is working normally

If this were a regular app, I'd re install it. But it's the app store. What can I do? I do not want to re install MacOS

 

[TFrank2]

Only time I’ve had this happen was when I was using a VPN. Beyond that, I’m assuming you’ve done the usual things like restarting? I’ve seen others delete their AppStore plist files and then reboot but I’ve never done it first hand.

 

[thebart]

Thanks but I'm not using a VPN. I've restarted

And as I said I could update apps that had updates, so it's unlikely my Apple ID is bad or it's a network issue

Where might I find the app store plist?

 

[TFrank2]

Thanks but I'm not using a VPN. I've restarted

And as I said I could update apps that had updates, so it's unlikely my Apple ID is bad or it's a network issue

Where might I find the app store plist?

Got it. I had a similar experience once with the VPN so I was just curious. Updates seemed to load/show-up but the rest of the App Store experience was not showing.

https://support.topazlabs.com/article/52-how-to-delete-your-plist-file-on-mac

Locate the following files:

• com.apple.appstore.plist
• com.apple.storeagent.plist

In the past, I’ve also signed out/back in with my Apple account whenever I’d run into odd issues like this. YMMV.

 

[thebart]

Huh, it's working again. I didn't do anything. Who knows?

 

[chown33]

Apple outage?

For the future:

Apple - Support - System Status

Status for all planned and unplanned events for Apple Services.

www.apple.com