Multiple Apple services including App Store and iTunes offline after update failure – IT Pro – News

Due to a malfunction at Apple, several important services of the company are currently not or not well accessible. The Apple App Store, Apple Arcade, and iTunes, among others, are not available at the time of writing. There is no known cause for the outage of Apple’s services.

The outage has prevented users from using a variety of Apple services in recent hours, according to a Reddit-megathread† In addition to the services already mentioned, Facetime, Siri, iMessage, Apple Care, Apple TV+ and various parts of iCloud were not reachable. These services are according to the Apple’s official system status page meanwhile back online.

According to Bloomberg-journalist Mark Gurman there are also internal Apple systems that are suffering from the outage. Apple stores, among others, would be affected by this. On a reportedly recent photo of an unknown Apple store several Apple employees can be seen on the phone and having to work with paper instead of computers.

Update, 21:05: According to the linked Apple status page, all malfunctions have been resolved in the meantime. Apple has not yet responded to questions from Tweakers; It is not yet clear what caused the various malfunctions.

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