Apple’s online services were hit by an outage that cut many of us off from the App Store, Apple TV and Apple Music on Wednesday night. The system status page for Apple’s online service noted an outage that began at 6:31 p.m. ET, affecting those services as well as Arcade, Audiobooks, Books, Podcasts, Fitness Plus and its new Apple Sports app.
Now the status page lists them all as “outage resolved” as of 7:35 PM ET, and they seem to be working again. The @AppleSupport the account on X did not give a reason for the problems, but directed users to check the status page for more information.
On Downdetector, it appears that the first reports of problems didn’t start coming in until after 6:00 PM ET. The Verge has contacted Apple about the issues and will update this post if we hear back.
We didn’t see any specific error messages other than the connection failure message received when trying to update or install apps, stream TV shows, or play music. Serious outages like this aren’t common for Apple, but this one comes just hours after an outage took down WhatsApp globally and caused problems for other Meta services like Facebook, Instagram and Threads.
Update April 3, 7:55 PM ET: The outage was noted to have been resolved.