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Apple Music Experiencing Outage [Update: Fixed]

Monday October 28, 2019 1:34 PM PDT by Juli Clover

Apple Music, Beats 1, and the ‌Apple Music‌ Radio feature are down for some users, according to Apple's System Status page.

The outage has been ongoing since 10:30 a.m. Pacific Time, and Apple says that some users may be experiencing issues with "certain features of the music service."

According to multiple reports on Twitter, there are a good number of users who appear to be unable to access the entirety of the ‌Apple Music‌ service at this time.

There's no word on when full ‌Apple Music‌ functionality will be restored, but we'll update this post when the outage ends.

Update: According to Apple, the ‌Apple Music‌ outage has ended.

Top Rated Comments

puckhead193

82 months ago

Blame the AirPods pros

Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)

B4U

82 months ago

One downfall of streaming music versus having the music onboard the device itself.

Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)

jonnyb098

82 months ago

Akamai is who Apple and others use for content delivery and they are down. Hence the Apple Music, iTunes, App Store outages.

Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

now i see it

82 months ago

as I pop another cassette into my Walkman

Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)

max2

82 months ago

Apple App store as well.

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

bsbeamer

82 months ago

App Store is down on some devices down as well. Seems to be working fine for iPadOS 13.2, however.

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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