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.
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