An Apple Store in Australia is Permanently Closing This Weekend

Friday October 3, 2025 8:29 am PDT by Joe Rossignol

Apple's retail store at the Westfield Hornsby shopping mall, in Hornsby, Australia, will be permanently closing this Saturday, October 4.

Hornsby is a suburb of Sydney, on the Upper North Shore. Apple opened its store there in 2011, and it will close for good on October 4, at 5 p.m. local time.

In a statement shared with some Australian media outlets earlier this year, Apple said it had decided not to renew its lease at Westfield Hornsby. Apple said all affected retail employees would be given the opportunity to work at Apple's nearby store at the Chatswood Chase shopping mall, in Chatswood, which it said would reopen in October.

Apple has yet to announce a grand reopening date for the Chatswood Chase store.

Apple Hornsby

Apple Chatswood Chase has been closed for renovations for many months. Apple said the store will be completely redesigned, and it will offer an Apple Pickup station for collecting online orders, and a dedicated area for Today at Apple sessions. With the Chatswood Chase store set to expand, Apple decided to close its Hornsby store.

The company has six other stores in the Sydney area.

Apple has permanently closed a handful of stores in 2025, but it has also opened many new locations this year, in Miami, Detroit, Tokyo, and beyond.

Elsewhere in Australia, Apple relocated its store in Perth to a historic bank building in June.

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