Apple Music and Apple TV Experiencing Outage [Update: Fixed]

[MacRumors]

Apple Music and Apple TV are experiencing an outage that could be causing issues for some users, according to Apple's System Status page.

The outage started at 2:53 p.m. Eastern Time, and it is impacting Apple Music, Apple TV, and Apple TV Channels. Apple says that some users may run into intermittent problems, though specifics have not been provided. There don't appear to be a large number of complaints about the services on social media at this time.

We'll update this article when Apple's services are back up and running.

Update: Game Center has also been added to the list of services affected by an outage.

Update 2: As of 4:57 p.m Eastern Time, Apple says the outages have been fixed.

Article Link: Apple Music and Apple TV Experiencing Outage [Update: Fixed]

 

[vertsix]

I was wondering what “Request timed out” was all about in Apple Music a couple minutes ago…

 

[neuropsychguy]

Is this a coincidence with Tim Cook being in Washington, D.C.? Probably not. When he's out of the office, Apple stops working.

 

[bigpoppa]

Running just fine for me (West Coast.)

 

[Kwikyy]

This happening just after the AWS reinvent talk of Apple

 

[sich]

Also fitness+

 

[vantelimus]

Is this a coincidence with Tim Cook being in Washington, D.C.? Probably not. When he's out of the office, Apple stops working.

We had the opposite problem at one company I worked at. When the Database manager was out of the office, the system became rock solid steady. 🤣

 

[dumastudetto]

No issues here. I've had 100% uptime with Apple services for more than a decade.

 

[jayducharme]

Apple Artists is down (4:00 EST).

 

[IceCool]

My bad guys, I’ve been on Apple Music the whole day. Maybe it’s time I’ll take a break. 😔

 

[klm9210]

Running fine for me. Maybe they just forgot to pay their bills on time

 

[I am Sampson]

That explains the episode of foundation I was just watching that kept cutting out, dropping in video and/or audio quality, or freezing altogether.

South West England here.

 

[dg1974]

Apple TV not working (Italy). I was watching the first Tron movie (I’ve just purchased the three movies package) and streaming got constantly interrupted and then stopped completely.

 

[timsutcliffe]

Maybe Fitness+ too. My workout gave up part way through earlier on, and I couldn't access any others.

 

[Mazda 3s]

Looks like someone forgot to close the bold tag on the “update” for this post and in turn bolded the whole site 😂

 

[AppleMega]

All working here in the one true time zone (Eastern). My only complaint today is that I still really, really miss LaunchPad. Workarounds and third-party apps are not the same.

 

[hushblade]

Hey web page admins!

You forgot a closing bold tag after the update text.

Please close the bold tag, as it is emboldening all the text of the next articles!

Update: Perfect! You fixed it. Thank you!

 

[SactoGuy18]

This is what the Walt Disney Company dreads when first two episodes of Taylor Swift's The End of an Era documentary series and The Eras Tour: The Final Show premieres on the Disney Plus streaming service at 0000 hours Pacific Time on December 12, 2025. They fear a possible video server crash like what just happened to Apple and (just as dreadful) a possible crash of either Cloudflare or Amazon Web Services, which could cause problems, too.

 

[BigJohno]

also apple fitness!

 

[coolfactor]

All working here in the one true time zone (Eastern). My only complaint today is that I still really, really miss LaunchPad. Workarounds and third-party apps are not the same.

On-Topic Reply: I was sleeping, so missed the outage. Darn!

Off-Topic Reply: LaunchPad still exists within Spotlight and provides an instantly-searchable grid of all apps. How is that different than LaunchPad? Were you accessing it in a certain way that you miss?