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Apple Music and Apple TV Experiencing Outage [Update: Fixed]

Apple Music and Apple TV are experiencing an outage that could be causing issues for some users, according to Apple's System Status page.

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The outage started at 2:53 p.m. Eastern Time, and it is impacting ‌Apple Music‌, ‌Apple TV‌, and ‌Apple TV‌ Channels. Apple says that some users may run into intermittent problems, though specifics have not been provided. There don't appear to be a large number of complaints about the services on social media at this time.

We'll update this article when Apple's services are back up and running.

Update: Game Center has also been added to the list of services affected by an outage.

Update 2: As of 4:57 p.m Eastern Time, Apple says the outages have been fixed.

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Top Rated Comments

12 months ago

Is this a coincidence with Tim Cook being in Washington, D.C.? Probably not. When he's out of the office, Apple stops working.
We had the opposite problem at one company I worked at. When the Database manager was out of the office, the system became rock solid steady. 🤣
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
dumastudetto Avatar
12 months ago
No issues here. I've had 100% uptime with Apple services for more than a decade.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
bigpoppa Avatar
12 months ago
Running just fine for me (West Coast.)
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
12 months ago
Is this a coincidence with Tim Cook being in Washington, D.C.? Probably not. When he's out of the office, Apple stops working.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
IceCool Avatar
12 months ago
My bad guys, I’ve been on Apple Music the whole day. Maybe it’s time I’ll take a break. 😔
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12 months ago
Not facing any issues at the moment. Glad that it is fixed now for all users.
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