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Apple Music Experiencing Outage [Update: Fixed]

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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."

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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.

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B4U Avatar
B4U
85 months ago
One downfall of streaming music versus having the music onboard the device itself.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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puckhead193
85 months ago
Blame the AirPods pros
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
N
now i see it
85 months ago
as I pop another cassette into my Walkman
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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jonnyb098
85 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)
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jonblatho
85 months ago

One downfall of streaming music versus having the music onboard the device itself.
…you can download the music for offline playback, though. And even have it downloaded automatically when adding music to your library.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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!!!
85 months ago
As I was reading this, I got my notification that I was charged for Apple Music.
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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