Apple services are experiencing an outage
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Apple's system status page lists 27 outages across iCloud, business, school, and other services on Thursday afternoon.
Starting from 3:55 p.m. eastern on Monday, Apple has acknowledged a widespread outage across multiple cloud services and systems. Outages range from missing availability or slow access to many aspects of Apple's online programs.
Apple hasn't provided a reason for the outage or a timetable for restoration. Users that encounter issues with a service will need to wait out the outage while services are restored.
The following services are listed as an outage on Apple's system status page:
- App Store
- Apple Books
- Apple Fitness+
- Apple Music
- Apple TV Channels
- Apple TV+
- Mac App Store
- Podcasts
The following services have been restored:
- Apple Business Essentials - resolved at 5:06 p.m.
- Apple Business Manager - resolved at 5:06 p.m.
- Apple School Manager - resolved at 5:06 p.m.
- Find My - resolved at 4:54 p.m.
- Game Center - resolved at 5:00 p.m.
- iCloud Calendar - resolved at 5:00 p.m.
- iCloud Contacts - resolved at 5:00 p.m.
- iWork Collaboration - resolved at 5:00 p.m.
- iWork for iCloud - resolved at 5:00 p.m.
- Schoolwork - resolved at 5:06 p.m.
This is an ongoing issue, and Apple will provide updates as problems are resolved. As of this publication, Apple has already described the Apple Mail outage as resolved, with at least 27 other services still down.
Update: Apple resolved 21 outages around 5 p.m.
