Apple Store status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Apple Store reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Apple Store users through our website.

• Sign in (35%)
• Errors (35%)
• Website Down (30%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Apple Store outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Montréal	Errors	22 days ago
Ciudad López Mateos	Sign in	1 month ago
Quito	Website Down	2 months ago
Guayaquil	Sign in	2 months ago
New York City	Sign in	2 months ago
Malibu	Website Down	2 months ago

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Apple Store Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Famous14u (@famous14u) reported 22 seconds ago

  iPhone keeps freezing after restarting. Won't allow me to input passcode to start phone after turning it on. Wondering if I should go to Apple store. They want me to buy storage. I'm protesting. Hate when this happens. Battery at 100% now I need to let battery drain to shut down.

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  Hi (@normalfunguy) reported 1 minute ago

  woke up and starting scrolling on my phone, then the screen suddenly went black and nothing i can try fixes it even though everyone online had all the other solutions fix it for them im so annoyed i have to go get destroyed at the apple store

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  NMW (@NoisyMountainw1) reported 2 minutes ago

  It’s been over a week since my MacBook Pro laptop kicked the bucket. I took it to the Apple Store last Saturday to see what the issue was. When the technician dissembled the MacBook to see what the problem was, he saw dust inside.

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  lilly (@lilly70583564) reported 2 minutes ago

  @gailalfaratx Is that Tim Cook who kept grok down the bottom of the apps in the Apple Store where people could not find it, even though it was the most popular app? Tim Cook is lucky Elon didn’t punch him. Elon is a sweetheart :) I don’t know if I would be so merciful towards Tim lol

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  tomo (@tomowget) reported 5 minutes ago

  Ive been sitting at the mall for the past couple hours waiting for the apple store to fix my phone. What did i miss guys

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  georgie 🪼 (@takiiapple) reported 12 minutes ago

  phone broke took it to apple store me and guy in apple store just ignore the ao3 tab open whilst he’s trying to fix my phone

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  Zaik (@RealZaikTorek) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Grxit Wasn't this the "civil rights rally" where the burned down an autozone and looted an apple store lmao

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  Trent 🇺🇸 (@tnertz) reported 16 minutes ago

  Going to the Apple Store for this broke iPhone 17 pro camera. Idk if it’s a LiDAR issue but you can see the low fidelity of zooming all the way in…it’s not switching to the 4x lens but just digital zooming completely on the 1x lens. Sometimes the 1x lens will not focus when the 4x does.

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  bri (@quackeie) reported 19 minutes ago

  the whole server being there for the explosion of the apple store im crying i love qsmp

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  𝕓.𝕡🪁 ⃤🦄 (@coldbrew5ever) reported 19 minutes ago

  @politigaymer I used to work at the Apple Store Genius Bar and they would definitely do that under extenuating circumstances (or when they couldn’t figure out the issue). But they would most certainly let you know if they did because it would improve your perception of the brand and service.

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  quacy blucher mcleod (@kingquacy) reported 20 minutes ago

  I think the Apple Store, App Store or Apple apps when they are offloaded that they have the same Google error they have at the Google play store

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  hunter (@hxxntrr) reported 24 minutes ago

  You can walk into any Apple Store in America, buy $50,000 in MacBooks and iPhones on 0% business credit cards, and resell every single item for 85 to 95% of retail on eBay, Swappa, and Facebook Marketplace the same day. Cash in your bank account by Friday This is how people convert 0% credit limits into liquid cash without Plastiq, without Melio, and without paying a 2.85% processing fee The Apple Store accepts credit cards for purchases up to $50,000. No questions. No ID beyond what's needed for Apple Pay. You walk in, buy 8 MacBook Pros at $2,499 each, and walk out with $19,992 on your Chase Ink Business Unlimited at 0% APR List them on eBay as "Brand New Sealed" at $2,199 each. They sell in 24 to 48 hours because sealed Apple products have the highest resale velocity of any consumer electronics on earth. People buy them because they're getting a $300 discount on a product that never goes on sale $2,199 x 8 = $17,592 in eBay revenue eBay + PayPal fees (13%): -$2,287 Your net cash received: $15,305 You spent $19,992 on a credit card. You got $15,305 in cash. You "lost" $4,687 "That's a terrible deal" No. You converted $19,992 in credit into $15,305 in LIQUID CASH at a cost of $4,687. That's a 23.5% conversion fee Plastiq charges 2.85% but has a $100K annual limit and many payees are restricted. Melio charges 2.85% but some payments take 5 to 7 days and large amounts trigger manual review The Apple resale method has: No annual limit (buy as much as they'll sell you) No payment restrictions (it's a retail purchase) No manual review (it's a credit card transaction at a store) Cash in your bank within 3 to 5 days (eBay payouts are fast) And you can improve the conversion rate dramatically: iPhones resell at 92 to 96% of retail (better than MacBooks). A $1,199 iPhone 16 Pro Max sells for $1,050 to $1,100 on Swappa within 48 hours. That's only a 5 to 8% loss after fees iPads resell at 88 to 93% of retail AirPods Max resell at 85 to 90% Apple Watches resell at 82 to 88% The optimal mix for maximum cash extraction: $30,000 in iPhone 16 Pro Max units (25 phones at $1,199): resell at $1,080 avg = $27,000 - 13% fees = $23,490 net. Loss: $6,510 (21.7%) $20,000 in iPad Pro units (10 iPads at $1,999): resell at $1,799 avg = $17,990 - 13% fees = $15,651 net. Loss: $4,349 (21.7%) Total credit card spend: $50,000 Total cash received: $39,141 Conversion rate: 78.3% Effective "fee": 21.7% "21.7% is way worse than Plastiq's 2.85%" Yes. If Plastiq works for your use case, use Plastiq. The Apple method is for when you need: More than $100K liquidated (Plastiq has limits) Cash in 3 days not 7 No paper trail linking credit cards to bank deposits through a payment processor (the cash appears as eBay/PayPal revenue, not as a Plastiq transfer) Amounts above $25K per transaction (Melio flags large single payments) The people doing this at scale aren't converting $50K. They're converting $200K to $500K across multiple Apple Stores, Best Buys, Costcos, and authorized resellers. At that volume they have eBay stores with Top Rated Seller status, which reduces fees to 10.5% and pushes the conversion rate to 82 to 85% There's also the Amazon Retail Arbitrage version: buy Apple products at retail, sell on Amazon as a third-party seller, Amazon pays out every 2 weeks. The conversion rate is similar but Amazon's customer base is willing to pay closer to retail for the Prime badge and the Amazon return policy A guy in our network converts $80K to $100K per month from credit cards to cash using this exact method across Apple, Costco, and Best Buy. His blended conversion rate after eBay fees and marketplace fees: 81%. He converts $100K in credit into $81K in cash every month $81K in cash from $100K in 0% credit. His "cost" of $19K per cycle is his equivalent of a processing fee. He treats it as a cost of capital. $19K to access $81K in free cash for 15 months = effective annualized cost of 18.6% "18.6% is expensive" Compared to what? An MCA (merchant cash advance) charges 40 to 150% effective APR A hard money loan charges 12 to 18% + 2 to 3 points A personal loan at 680 score charges 15 to 24% APR A credit card balance at standard APR: 24.99% 18.6% annualized for UNSECURED CASH with NO APPLICATION PROCESS, NO UNDERWRITING, and NO REPAYMENT SCHEDULE beyond minimums at 0% for 15 months is cheaper than almost every alternative source of liquid capital for someone without assets to collateralize And the credit card rewards on $100K in Apple Store purchases: roughly $2,000 to $3,000 in points. That drops the effective cost to 15.6 to 16.6% btw the IRS doesn't track retail purchases on credit cards. The purchase shows up as "APPLE STORE #R123" on your credit card statement. The eBay revenue shows up as income from your eBay seller account. If your LLC is the eBay seller, the purchase is a "business inventory expense" and the revenue is "product sales." The accounting is clean this is the emergency version of the liquidation play. when you need cash in 72 hours, can't wait for Plastiq, and need more than $25K. you walk into Apple, buy everything they'll sell you, walk out, list it on eBay, and have cash in your bank by Friday. the most liquid asset in America isn't gold or bitcoin. it's a sealed iPhone lmfaooo (we get 700+ score business owners $100K-$250K in 0% business funding. how you liquidate is your business. we build the capital stack. link in bio)

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  Augie (@augierakow) reported 28 minutes ago

  Good experience at Apple Store today solving this problem (and two others). Thank you @apple.

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  maddy🌺 (gaaras real girlfriend) (@maddyluvzgaara) reported 30 minutes ago

  DREAM:wanted to have Sheldon cooper as my wallpaper and downloaded a virus and for some reason I had a rich guy that followed me around I said “hey can we go to the Apple Store” and he completely ignored me and we went to a prison to bail someone out instead so I had to fix my phone myself anyways my *** is going back to bed 😭

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  VaccineWaters 🇺🇸 (@VaccineWaters74) reported 30 minutes ago

  @WallStreetApes When the 5 came out, the latest update bricked my 4. Went to the Apple Store and they said there were a few other people came in with the exact issue.

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  fonesy (@_fonesy_) reported 30 minutes ago

  @PhoenixCharts @Schmavid1 @NortonMpls It must be comforting to confidently write a daily fanfiction about how the biggest issues just so happen to be the handful of things you're already mad about. Yes babygirl, rioters burned down the Apple Store but not until after we'd decided to leave Amazing Thailand untorched.

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  The Noisy Elephant (@TheNoisyTrunk) reported 31 minutes ago

  You have no clue what you are talking about, moron. Take some time out @AlexErrera2 . Go for a walk down to the local shopping mall. Find a shop called "Prestige **** Accessories", it will be next to the Apple store, or not. Go in and ask for a "super small jack off the crumb" self-pleasure, base model - you don't want the luxury model because that will be too expensive for you. Now, go to the chemist, or Priceline, whichever you prefer, and buy some KY jelly. You can actually get it at Woolworths, but it won't be any cheaper there, just so you know. Then walk all the way back home, like a complete ****, because you can't afford an Uber. When you get home, get a picture of Pauline Hanson, go to the bedroom, and do whatever ******** you like. We don't care what you do, and we don't want to know what you do, but you will have a "super small jack off the crumb" self-pleasure, base model" so you can ******* work it out from there. You dumb ****. Off you go. Walk.

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  Juan Salgado (@juansalgadodp) reported 31 minutes ago

  @GenshinImpact Well done, keep banning players from Discord and keep believing your garbage game is being rated on Google, Google Play, Play Store and Apple Store by bots, you rats. You all burned down your community, EX community.

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  Dee8Pain (@Dee8Pain) reported 33 minutes ago

  @Apple Apple store in Taipei can’t accept my Mastercard or Visa card, need to issue me a credit coupon then I can spend on an Apple product. WHAT YEAR IS THIS?

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  Britler (@JackPackag5) reported 33 minutes ago

  @SirLeonP The whole point of business is to create jobs, there's no point being an apple store in a run down town. Economy is the movement of money. You hire employees to scale your business not to make a profit on them

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  Robbwith2Beez (@Robbwith2beez23) reported 35 minutes ago

  @ChrisKlemmer @ChrisKlemmer just tell him where the nearest apple store is and he will have a melt down and storm out

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  Eko (@Ekoofficial21) reported 36 minutes ago

  @Kappylohd @jon_d_doe You once login your x on an iPhone that’s on US Apple Store

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  Gain of Dysfunction Research (@GainOfDR) reported 40 minutes ago

  @ClownWorld 1. Sleep on the street 2. Riot for no apparent reason 3. Burn down a neighborhood 4. Open a hospice for fraud 5. Dye hair pink Bonus: Loot an Apple Store

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  imran (@instaguyonx) reported 43 minutes ago

  @Rushu_Tushu Yeah, I got the same, but when I got a problem, I went to Apple Store to get it fixed, but they said this is a first copy which looks like original, but inside the earbuds, a copy

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  Sean (@sean_plus_one) reported 43 minutes ago

  @yonann Lost me at "Perception of Customer Support" Have a problem, go to Apple store and they handle it. W/ Apple Care no issues. PC, who do I go to? Best buy, where they upsell/run-around try to sell x. Time is your most valuable asset! *Cough

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  Thomas (@DestinSailor) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Aina_Ai2 Thank you for this. My iPhone 15 pro max started heating when summer started. 6 months of misery like you describe. I went to our Apple Store and asked if the 17 pro would eliminate this heating problem, I was told “it should, Apple put a cooling chamber in it” ; I asked if they could guarantee the 17 pro would stay cool and was told “no, we can’t do that “. The store gives us only 14 days to return the product if there are problems. My 17 pro with the “cooling chamber “ has the same heating problem my 15 Pro Max had (heating and screen going black). I missed taking a lot of photos and videos of nephews and nieces playing junior baseball because of this heating problem.

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  Michael Kungu (@Mikekungu) reported 50 minutes ago

  @AIRTEL_KE Why is the app not working, i have just downloaded it from apple store

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  adi (@_adilenne) reported 55 minutes ago

  Remove my cellphone from the case because I was using the portable charger and it ******* fell down. Still not the festival since I had to go to the Apple Store. Super wonderful ppl and I needed a phone asap since I’m alone. Now I have a 17 PM, an expense I didn’t think of

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  Cheryl Hunter 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🌻🦋🇺🇦 (@LadyEmmasGhost) reported 55 minutes ago

  I’m loving all the animal accounts. It’s a much needed laugh in a day where I spent most of the afternoon in the Apple Store going through Password Hell. And it wasn’t even MY problem. Long, dumb story.

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  Grey (YC W22) (@greyfinance) reported 58 minutes ago

  @joshuafirimajnr Hi Joshua, Grey Visa cards work with Apple Pay. To avoid issues, please make sure your Apple Store region is set to the U.S. If it still doesn’t work, send us a DM so we can look into it and help you sort it out. -T.O