System outages are affecting Apple Music, TV+, Podcasts, the App Store, and extra

Update 4:00pm PST: Apple’s system standing web page is all within the inexperienced once more, and all affected companies ought to be working.

Apple’s web companies are thought of fairly sturdy, particularly contemplating the massive variety of customers. But outages occur to each firm with on-line companies occasionally and Apple isn’t any totally different.

According to Apple’s System Status web page, a number of content material companies have been experiencing outages for at the very least the final two hours–an unusually lengthy stretch for Apple. These embrace the App Store (together with the Mac App Store), Apple TV+ and TV Channels, Fitness+, Music, Books, and Podcasts.

Several different companies had outages in the present day that have been resolved, together with iCloud Mail and Calendar, Find My, and Game Center.

Other companies like Apple Card, FaceTime, Apple Pay, Maps, News, and HomeKit are unaffected.

The outages don’t look like international. In truth, in California, we have been capable of entry all these companies usually. Because all of the affected companies are targeted on content material supply, it’s probably that a number of of the most important nodes on Apple’s international content material supply community (CDN) are having some form of failure. Some customers could discover the affected companies sluggish or unavailable, whereas others will discover no issues in any respect.

There isn’t actually a workaround, although should you discover that these companies usually are not working for you, it may very well be value making an attempt a VPN, because it may trigger you to hook up with a unique a part of the CDN and get issues working once more.