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Apple Restores Apple TV, Apple Music and App Store After Multi-Hour Outage

Early reports pointed to a storefront backend fault that disrupted account-dependent services.

Overview

  • Apple’s System Status page showed problems starting around midnight Eastern Time and now lists the affected services as resolved.
  • Users reported they could not stream on Apple TV, access their Apple Music libraries, or download new apps from the App Store.
  • Viewers described mid-episode stoppages on titles such as The Studio and Severance with error messages preventing playback.
  • Some people also encountered issues with TestFlight, the Apple Games app, and viewing iCloud Storage plans in Settings.
  • 9to5Mac and The Mac Observer described the event as the largest Apple account outage of 2025 so far, estimating a duration of about three hours.