Don’t try to tune your iPhone: Apple’s App Store was down tonight (April 3), along with Apple Arcade, Fitness Plus, Apple TV Plus, Apple Podcasts, and other cloud-based services. Services appear to have returned as of this writing, but while it lasted, the outage affected not only iPhone and iPad users, but also other Apple platforms, including Mac set-top boxes and Apple TV.
During the outage, Apple’s System Status page showed that other services like iCloud, Apple Pay, and FaceTime are working fine.
Still, a notable portion of Apple services were unavailable for at least an hour. The System Status page began logging the issue shortly after 6:30 pm ET, before some services came back online shortly after 7:30 pm ET. fall detector shows the first reports coming in shortly after 6 pm about Apple outages.
At 7:50 p.m. ET, an updated system status page showed that all affected services were working again, with the exception of AppleCare on the device.
Here’s a full list of affected services, according to Apple’s System Status page:
- App Store
- apple arcade
- Apple Books
- Apple Fitness Plus
- apple music
- apple sports
- Apple TV channels
- Apple TV Plus
- AppleCare on the device
- Audiobooks
- Mac App Store
- Podcasts
Apple customers trying to access the affected services received error messages during the outage. For example, when trying to launch the App Store on my iPhone, I saw a message saying “I can’t connect.” Similarly, the Apple TV set-top box displayed a “Content not available” message.
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