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Apple TV+ Outage Hits Premiere of 'Pluribus' Across U.S. and Canada

The disruption coincided with the high-profile Pluribus premiere, prompting scrutiny of Apple TV+ capacity planning.

Overview

  • User reports spiked minutes after the first two episodes went live around 10:30 p.m. ET on Nov. 6.
  • Downdetector logged roughly 13,000 to nearly 15,000 problem reports at the peak.
  • Apple acknowledged the issue on its System Status page and said it was investigating, with Apple Music and Apple Arcade also showing trouble indicators.
  • Status pages later displayed resolved outage notes and many viewers regained access, though accounts differ on whether the disruption was brief or lasted much longer.
  • Outage maps highlighted major cities including Houston, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Minneapolis, as the incident touched a services division that reported $28.8 billion last quarter.