Overview
- Apple’s System Status pages showed an outage that began at 11:40 a.m. Eastern on Friday, May 29, and affected users in countries including the United States, Australia, Brazil, France, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea and Spain.
- The problem was partial and intermittent, with some subscribers able to use Apple Music while others experienced streaming failures or login issues.
- Apple later updated its status pages to mark the incident resolved, listing the outage window as roughly 11:40 a.m. to about 9:30 p.m. Eastern and confirming that some users were affected.
- Third-party tracker Downdetector logged user complaints during the event and showed reports trending down as the service returned, but report volumes were uneven across regions.
- This is at least the third Apple Music disruption in about two months, a pattern that draws fresh attention to streaming reliability and will likely prompt closer monitoring of future interruptions.