Update: February 23, 2023, at 8:07 PM EST: Apple's System Status page now says that, as of around 5:00 PM EST, the company has resolved all of the outages that users were experiencing with all of the services we listed below.
The company has not yet provided a reason for the outages, simply saying that "some users were affected" and that any particular service "may have been slow or unavailable."
It's not just you. A ton of Apple's services are down right now.
On Thursday evening, users started experiencing issues when trying to use a range of the company's services. Apple has already acknowledged the issue on its System Status page. According to that page, a ton of its services are currently experiencing issues or full outages.
As of the writing of this article, the following services are experiencing outages:
- App Store
- Apple Books
- Apple Fitness Plus
- Apple TV Channels
- Apple TV Plus
- Apple Music
- Mac App Store
- Podcasts
It's currently unclear when Apple will fix the issues with the above services. According to the company, the outages began around 3:55 PM EST.
Some services have already been restored
There are a ton of other services that also experienced issues or outages but, thankfully, it appears that Apple has addressed the issues and restored service. The list of services that were down but are now available again are below:
- Apple Business Essentials
- Apple Business Manager
- Apple School Manager
- Find My
- Game Center
- iCloud Calendar
- iCloud Contacts
- iCloud Mail
- iWork collaboration
- iWork for iCloud
- Schoolwork
For the services that are restored, Apple says that issues began on Thursday, February 23rd at 3:55 PM EST and were fixed around 5:06 PM on the same day.
We'll keep an eye on these outages and continue to update this article as we see more services restored. It's currently unclear exactly when that will be, so keep refreshing this article or monitor Apple's System Status page for updates.
In the meantime, now might be a good time to try Kindle, Spotify, Nike Plus, Netflix, and basically any competitor of Apple's services.
