New Delhi: Apple services such as Apple App Store, Apple Music, iCloud, Maps, Apple TV+ and other services suffered a widespread outage and the tech giant has acknowledged the issue. According to Apple’s system status page, 11 outages were shown including podcasts, music, and arcade. The services are back online now after the widespread outage.
The Apple apps that were affected by the outage included Apple App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, iCloud (Account & Sign In, Calendar, Drive, Keychain, Mail and Web Apps), iOS Device Activation, Find My, Maps (Display, Navigation, Search and Traffic), AppleCare on Device, iTunes Store, Fitness Plus, Podcasts, and Radio.
According to outage detection website Downdetector.com, over 4,000 users reported issues with accessing Apple Music and as many as 4,000 reported problems while accessing iCloud. Users also flagged issues with “find my iPhone”, Apple store, maps and support.
The Cupertino, California-based tech giant had responded to some users hit by the outage on Twitter. However, it is not yet known what caused the outages. According to news agency Bloomberg, Apple’s corporate staff working from home and retail workers were also facing issues. The outage delayed product repairs, pickups as well as limited workers’ access to internal websites.
Meanwhile, since the start of the Ukraine invasion, the Russian App Store has lost nearly 6,982 mobile apps as several companies decided to pull off their apps and games from the Apple App Store. According to data by app intelligence firm Sensor Tower and shared with TechCrunch, those apps had been downloaded around 218 million times in Russia, representing around 3 per cent of their total 6.6 billion installs globally.