Apple Music Experiencing Outage [Update: Fixed]

Apple Music is facing an ongoing outage, according to Apple's System Status page. The downtime started at 2:26 p.m. Eastern Time, and has not yet been resolved.

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Apple says that some users may be experiencing intermittent issues with the service, though it does not appear to be malfunctioning for all users.

We'll update this article when the issue has been resolved.

Update: As of 4:20 p.m. Eastern Time, Apple says the issue has been fixed.

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whsbuss Avatar
11 months ago
Working for me
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mjschabow Avatar
11 months ago
It'll be back soon. We think you're going to like it.
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M.Brane Avatar
11 months ago
Meanwhile my local libraries continue to work despite Tim's repeated attempts to make me abandon them.
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svish Avatar
11 months ago
Did not face any issue in the last 24 hours. Hope that the issue has been fully fixed by now.
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Mrkevinfinnerty Avatar
11 months ago
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Meanwhile my local libraries continue to work despite Tim's repeated attempts to make me abandon them.
The biggest issue with Apple Music is it tries to combine local library library management with a streaming app.

They should've left local library management in 2015, spun off iTunes and let people who still want to faff about with downloads deal with that.
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