Some of Apple’s services went down across the U.S. this morning as Americans had trouble accessing certain features from the App Store. According to Downdetector, complaints received about the App Store soared from one at 10:22 am ET to 3,652 at 11:37 am ET. The outage was confirmed by Apple’s System Status page that showed an outage for subscription purchases for 49 minutes ending at 11:51 am ET. Apple says that this outage has been resolved.
Apple’s App Store was down earlier today. | Image credit-Downdetector
Outages that were resolved according to Apple’s System Status page include:
- Apple School Manager-three resolved issues.
- Apple Business Essentials-three resolved issues.
- Apple Business Manager-two resolved issues, one resolved performance.
- Apple School Manager-three resolved issues.
- Apple Care on Device-resolved outage.
- Schoolwork-resolved issue.
- Subscription Purchase-resolved outage.
- Volume Purchase Program-resolved outage.
Among the complaints received by Downdetector, one user wrote about his experience trying to install an app from the App Store during the outage. “Yep, four devices, two separate networks and the GET button spins for a second and nothing,” wrote user “aCountryVegan” talking about the button an App Store user presses in order to install an app from the App Store.
Another Downdetector subscriber, this one with the user name “Kohen,” says that the problem with the App Store also affected in-app purchases. “Also can’t buy anything in-app wise, such as booster packs for games etc,” he wrote adding, “Won’t let me install anything, it just loads for a sec and then stops. Also can’t view Payment and Shipping in settings on iPhone nor Desktop.”
This is breaking news and will be updated.
