Apple woes: 27 services, apps now back online after earlier outages

By Joe Rossignol, MacRumors

Apple is experiencing a widespread outage today, with a wide range of the company’s services and apps down or experiencing issues currently.

[WRAL TechWire Editor’s Note: Apple’s status page notes that, as of 3:35 p.m. eastern time this afternoon, the 27 outages that affected services and apps such as the App Store, Apple Music, Apple Fitness+, Podcasts, Apple TV, and Find My are now resolved after experiencing earlier issues beginning just before 1 p.m. eastern time.]

Affected services and apps include the App Store, iCloud, Siri, iMessage, iTunes Store, Apple Maps, Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, Apple Arcade, Apple Fitness+, Apple TV+, Find My, FaceTime, Notes, Stocks, and many others, according to complaints across Twitter and other platforms. Apple’s developer website is also inaccessible due to server issues.

Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman reports that some of Apple’s internal systems are also down:

Shortly before 1:30 p.m., Apple updated its System Status page to reflect ongoing issues with several of its services.