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App Store and Apple TV Experiencing Outage

Apple's App Store, iTunes Store, and Apple TV service are experiencing an outage at the current time, according to Apple's System Status page.

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Apple says that some users may be experiencing issues with the ‌App Store‌ and iTunes Store. Apple also says some users may be seeing intermittent issues with ‌Apple TV‌. The ‌Apple TV‌ Channels feature is down too, and users may be unable to access some services or make purchases.

The services have been having issues since 6:48 p.m. Eastern Time. We'll update this article when the outage resolves.

Update 8:15 p.m. ET: iWork for iCloud, Xcode Cloud, and Apple Maps Traffic are also experiencing issues.

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indefinite Avatar
19 weeks ago
Absolutely devastated by this. This is unacceptable on Apple's end
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Xade Avatar
19 weeks ago
Buy physical media.
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19 weeks ago

Apple says that some users may be experiencing issues with the App Store
They have been for many years.
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19 weeks ago
We just got hammered with the largest CME from the Sun in over 20 years yesterday. Maybe that had a little hand in F'ing something up somewhere.
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19 weeks ago
real headline: apple users experience touching grass for the first time
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19 weeks ago
App store had no problem taking my money tonight. 🥴
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