Apple services go down for the second day in a row

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What you need to know

  • Apple's services went down for the second day in a row.
  • Both Apple Music and the App Store were down for multiple users today.
  • Apple experienced an even larger outage yesterday.

If you have been having issues accessing some of Apple's services today, you're not alone.

Apple appears to be experiencing issues with its services for the second day in a row. According to users on Twitter, both Apple Music and the App Store experienced an outage earlier this evening. In addition, Downdetector shows that the outage may have affected at least iCloud, Apple Maps, Apple TV+, and Apple Support.

While the outage lasted for at least an hour, it appears that Apple has resolved all of the issues affecting its services according to the System Status page.

This is the second day in a row that the company's services have experienced an outage. Yesterday, even more of Apple's services went down for a portion of the day.

It's currently unclear what the cause of either outage is.

Joe Wituschek
Contributor

Joe Wituschek is a Contributor at iMore. With over ten years in the technology industry, one of them being at Apple, Joe now covers the company for the website. In addition to covering breaking news, Joe also writes editorials and reviews for a range of products. He fell in love with Apple products when he got an iPod nano for Christmas almost twenty years ago. Despite being considered a "heavy" user, he has always preferred the consumer-focused products like the MacBook Air, iPad mini, and iPhone 13 mini. He will fight to the death to keep a mini iPhone in the lineup. In his free time, Joe enjoys video games, movies, photography, running, and basically everything outdoors.