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Apple Music, iTunes, and News experienced outages [u]

Apple services were experiencing outages

Various media services like Apple Music, iTunes Match, Apple Music Radio, and Apple News were intermittently down for some users on Monday.

Apple shared that multiple services were down for some users on Monday night. Widespread reports showed intermittent issues across many Apple Services, some of which weren't acknowledged by Apple.

The Apple System Status page showed Apple Music, Apple Music radio, iTunes Match, and Radio experienced an outage on Monday. Apple News showed was also experiencing problems but was classified as an "issue" instead of an "outage."

The various outages began at 8:18 p.m. EST, according to Apple. Users encountered problems when interacting with these services or they did not respond at all for short periods.

The Apple News issue began at 8:22 p.m. EST. This service was described as experiencing problems, but no specifics were provided.

One Twitter user known as @aaronp613 shared that the Developer portal and the ability to download IPSWs are both down. Downloading apps and TestFlight betas are both intermittently down. Apple never acknowledged these outages.

Update at 11:00 p.m. EST: Apple News issue was resolved at 9:43, according to the Apple System Status page.

Update at 11:53 p.m. EST: Apple's System Status page says all outages were resolved at 9:38 p.m. EST.