A number of Apple Music, App Store, and iTunes users are encountering issues with the online services, problems Apple is aware of and is trying to rectify.
Posts to social media including Twitter indicate there are issues with three major Apple services, including iTunes, Apple Music, and the App Store. Tweets have been posted saying that there are problems listening to music and downloading apps.
Checks of DownDetector by iMore indicate issues with all three services started on Saturday afternoon at around 1 pm eastern time. It also appears the three services went down at around the same time, though it is unclear how many people are actually affected.
Apple’s System Status page advises there are ongoing outages for both the iTunes Store and the App Store, with both said to be “slow or unavailable,” and that “some users are affected.” Apple Music is not currently flagged by Apple as enduring an outage at the time of publication.
Both services were also affected by an earlier outage that caused slow and spotty access from Thursday until Friday, which may be connected to the current situation.
AppleInsider will update this post if changes occur.
