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Many Apple online services experienced extended outage [u]

Apple services are experiencing an outage

Apple's system status page listed 27 outages across iCloud, business, school, and other services on Thursday afternoon — now resolved.

Starting from 3:55 p.m. eastern on Thursday, Apple acknowledged a widespread outage across multiple cloud services and systems. Outages ranged from missing availability or slow access to many aspects of Apple's online programs. Most issues were corrected by 5:06 p.m. eastern.

Apple didn't provide a reason for the outage or a timetable for restoration, but it only lasted a little more than an hour. Users should be able to return to their regular use without issue.

The following services were listed as an outage on Apple's system status page:

  • Apple Business Essentials - resolved at 5:06 p.m.
  • Apple Business Manager - resolved at 5:06 p.m.
  • Apple School Manager - resolved at 5:06 p.m.
  • Find My - resolved at 4:54 p.m.
  • Game Center - resolved at 5:00 p.m.
  • iCloud Calendar - resolved at 5:00 p.m.
  • iCloud Contacts - resolved at 5:00 p.m.
  • iWork Collaboration - resolved at 5:00 p.m.
  • iWork for iCloud - resolved at 5:00 p.m.
  • Schoolwork - resolved at 5:06 p.m.
  • App Store
  • Apple Books
  • Apple Fitness+ - resolved at 4:54 p.m.
  • Apple Music - resolved at 4:54 p.m.
  • Apple TV Channels - resolved at 4:54 p.m.
  • Apple TV+ - resolved at 4:54 p.m.
  • Mac App Store
  • Podcasts

Apple originally listed 29 service outages, but the service page only lists 15 as "resolved" on the status page. Despite not being in the resolved list, all services are back to normal status as of 7:19 p.m. eastern.

Update 1: Apple resolved 21 outages around 5 p.m. eastern

Update 2: Apple resolved the remaining outages. Story updated at 7:19 p.m. eastern