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Apple Music, Apple TV and Apple Books Experiencing Outage [Update: Back Up]

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Apple Books, Apple Music, Apple TV, Beats 1, and Radio are experiencing outages at the current time according to Apple's System Status page. Reports on Twitter also suggest iTunes is experiencing issues.

There have been multiple complaints on Twitter about movies being interrupted mid-play along with issues accessing ‌Apple Music‌. Apple's site says the services have been down since 6:11 p.m. Pacific Time.

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Apple says that Apple Books users may experience intermittent issues, while ‌Apple Music‌ and ‌Apple TV‌ users are experiencing service problems.

Apple is investigating the issue, though it's not clear when the services will come back up. Most outages are brief. We'll update this post when the problem has been resolved.

Update: According to Apple's System Status page, the services are now working again.

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now i see it
92 months ago
so much for the ecosystem
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DotCom2
92 months ago
Well those are not the only things down. I got the Apple Card invite at 9:00a.m. Pacific this morning and have been trying all day to apply, and just getting an error saying "Apple Card Unavailable. Apple Pay services are currently unavailable. Please try again later".
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Böhme417
92 months ago
Look at that. I was just chatting with support about this an hour ago. They kept saying everything was fine on their end. Lies!
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philpalmiero
92 months ago
I want a refund!
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