Amber Neely
Apple is hit with another round of outages, with Apple Music, Podcasts, and both iOS and macOS App Stores affected.
Starting at 5:09 pm ET on Tuesday, many of Apple's services went offline as an apparent outage affected the Cupertino tech giant for the second time in two days.
As always, many users took to social media to report that they'd noticed the interruption in service.
so is anyone else having issues with apple music? half my songs are no longer available? send help?
— chewbecka (@BeckaMeschler) March 22, 2022
According to Apple, several services were down, including:
- App Store
- Apple Books
- Apple Music
- Mac App Store
- Podcasts
Additionally, partial outages and slowdowns were being reported for the following services:
- iCloud Web Apps
- Weather
- Apple Card
- Game Center
Like Monday, the outages appeared to affect users differently, with some experiencing normal access for some apps but not others.
At 6:28 pm ET, many of Apple's services began returning. Restored services include:
- Weather
- iCloud Web Apps
- Game Center
At 7:01 pm ET, all of Apples services have been listed as functional.
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Once again DownDetector indicates that it’s more than just Apple getting hit.
Putin is practicing for the big one.
This is the first time I have experienced this and of course it happened right when I was activating my new iPad Pro. It took me some time to realize that the problem was with Apples servers and not a local network problem at my home.
Has anyone heard anything about what’s happening? Has anyone at Apple said anything, on or off the record?
Sure, it could be a server software update that went sideways. It happens. But given the backdrop of a Russia that is very unhappy with western governments and companies, it’s not unreasonable to consider this a potential state sponsored cyber attack. They have motive and they have the capability.