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.

• Errors (38%)
• Sign in (31%)
• Website Down (31%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Montréal	Errors	1 month ago
Ciudad López Mateos	Sign in	2 months 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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  Greg - Israelite in Exile (surviving the Galut) (@anexiledjew) reported 7 seconds ago

  I bought a set of AirPods Pro from Laptops Direct based in Huddersfield, England, about a year ago. I have a problem with the left AirPod charging, and I went to an Apple Store to have them look at it today. Astonishingly, I discovered at the Apple Store that the serial number is tied to a date of purchase from 2024 in a Walmart in the United States. Avoid this retailer.

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  PK 🐢 👩🏻‍💻 (@PKodmad) reported 3 minutes ago

  Malko - my bedtime app blocker got REJECTED from apple store review. The turnaround time was quite fast! Last time I had to wait for 20 days for a rejection. Here are the reasons. 1. Incompatible with iPad - I have marked the app as iphone only. I'm not sure why they tested it on ipad. It may be easier to fix this than argue with them. 2. Paywall content - it does not clearly describe what the user will receive for the price. Seems an issue with messaging. Will rework and resubmit. Approval coming in any day now!

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  Alex Ventures (@alex23ventures) reported 5 minutes ago

  An AFP TV crew shot footage of an 8 year old Chinese boy named Zhou Zhiheng for a piece on Asia's youngest programmers. Round green frames. Red shirt. He sat in front of a MacBook Air at a glass desk inside a Shenzhen co-working space with iPhone XR posters mounted on the wall behind him. The voiceover said he had started out building games. The subtitle said his coding tutorial channel pulled 60,000 followers. The camera pushed in tight on his fingers across the keys. While the West holds panels about screen time for kids, China places an 8 year old in front of an unregistered code editor and rolls cameras for the international press. He was meant to be the friendly face of Asian tech literacy. He just left the sidebar open. Pause at 1:34. Skip past the C++ on the screen. Skip past the if statement the AFP voiceover was reading. Look at the left panel of the editor. The folder is labeled aspirin. The open file is jizhe.cpp. The folder tree below: 1-7, 1-7b, 10-1, 10-1.2, 10-2, 10-4, 10-6, 10-8, 11-2. ColdMath. $94,318 profit. 5,612 entries. Joined September 2025. Bio: Edge Compounds. Jizhe is the mandarin word for journalist. The file the AFP crew was rolling on was named after them. The boy had the open scanf reading a score variable. He had not typed it that morning. He had given the file its name the day the AFP request came through. The numbered folders were not chapters of a coding course. The numbering lined up with the Chinese journalism beat codes the press accreditation office issues to foreign correspondents. 1-7 is the technology beat. 10-1 is consumer electronics. 10-2 is mobile devices. 11-2 is venture capital. The folder tree was an index of which AFP and Reuters reporters covered what. The boy was not the developer. The boy was the camera trap. The agent on the MacBook Air was tracking which journalists filed filming permit requests at which Shenzhen co-working spaces three days ahead of the segments going to air. Every permit request was a position on the company being filmed. The agent traded the gap between shoot and broadcast. The crew rolled for forty minutes. The agent placed eleven positions during the shoot. Every position was on a company whose office the AFP team had stopped by that week. The comments turned into a detective board. One viewer dropped the AFP clip to 0.25x. Another translated jizhe out of the filename. A third commenter cross referenced the folder numbering against the Chinese State Council Information Office accreditation list and matched every code. Six months ago a 14 year old in Shenzhen pushed an AI agent to GitHub. Judges said no real world application. 3,100 forks later. The boy's father had been one of them. He had dropped the fork onto his son's MacBook the week the AFP request showed up in the family's WeChat. The 60,000 follower coding channel was not a coding channel. It was a feed tracking which co-working spaces were hosting which crews. The followers were operators running the same fork out of different cities. The iPhone XR posters behind him were not Apple Store decor. The shoot was happening inside a media briefing room foreign correspondents rent specifically to film this kind of segment. The agent already knew the room. The room was on the list. The AFP segment sits at 2.1 million views. The freeze frame of the folder tree cleared 4.6 million on the repost. The wallet is still compounding. The agent is still reading press accreditation requests. The unregistered editor is still open. The jizhe.cpp file is still on screen. They filmed him to prove a child could code. The child was the lens. The agent was running the shoot.

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  Pongsametrey S. (@pongsametrey) reported 6 minutes ago

  @GooglePlayBiz Why App review take too long, we got stuck by CA issue and have to wait too long compare to Apple Store, help to check app CoolApp Cambodia please.

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  GeeBeeNZ (@GeeBeeNZ) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Linda401gmail @RadioGenoa Don't do ANY FACIAL recognition ANYWHERE, go without or find a get around like a different browser. Tor Onion. Yes it's slow to load as a VPN. LOAD IT DIRECT FROM TOR, NOT EVER Google Play, Microsoft Store or Apple Store. Use Brave, DuckDuckGo as your default browser to get TOR.

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  𝕬𝖈𝖊_𝕱𝖗𝖎𝖏𝖔̈𝖑𝖊 🇺🇸 (@Ace_Frijole3) reported 11 minutes ago

  I feel sorry for @Macys & the @Apple store — they’re going to loot the stores, who you ask, Mistah Mayor? Why, your low IQ Arabs, Dominicans & “Those People” — they’re going to burn the City down & loot everything in sight

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  PK 🐢 👩🏻‍💻 (@PKodmad) reported 13 minutes ago

  Malko - my bedtime app blocker got rejected from apple store review. The turnaround time was quite fast! Last time I had to wait for 20 days for a rejection. Here are the reasons. 1. Incompatible with iPad - I have marked the app as iphone only. I'm not sure why they tested it on ipad. It may be easier to fix this than argue with them. 2. Paywall content - it does not clearly describe what the user will receive for the price. Seems an issue with messaging. Will rework and resubmit. Approval coming in any day now!

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  KT (@KishorAyar) reported 13 minutes ago

  @invulnerable888 @oneuios Also the temperature here is normal so I have not had any heating issues at all. I am using the original Apple charger and cable that I bought from the Apple Store.

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  Martins | Film Director (@Dir_Martinsz) reported 16 minutes ago

  I feel like buying directly from the Apple Store gives you a better chance of getting a top-quality device. All my iPhones have been carted straight from the Apple Store, and my iPhone 15 and 17 are still at 100% battery health. Even my iPhone 11, which I’ve been using since 2019, is only down to 86% battery health.

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  santosh Yadav (@santosh52681534) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Apple I forgot my password and visited the Apple Store in Mumbai to unlock my phone. I was informed that I should call customer care after 24 hours. Today, after waiting 24 hours, I contacted customer care and was told that the server would unlock my phone only after 6 days.

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  BeeDee (@T_B_T) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Kahamsha Probably take my flying car down to the Apple Store to buy a new iPhone 64 to have it installed in my left temple and rewatch it again?

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  Ana | The AI Girl (@WealthEmpireHQ) reported 32 minutes ago

  @ZunairaAi It sounds frustrating to deal with persistent storage issues despite taking all the right steps. I hope the Apple store was able to help find a solution.

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  PK 🐢 👩🏻‍💻 (@PKodmad) reported 33 minutes ago

  Malko has officially been ReJECTeD by Apple Store for guideline 4.3 as spam. After going through all the five stages of grief, I did some research and realised contesting this decision will only bring flagging to my dev account. Only way forward is to change the concept of the app, perhaps turn it into something specifically for far in postpartum moms, a lot of whom have these issues. I’m currently parking this project until the vision becomes clearer to me. I will take the L. It’s a loss of a couple of months of work. I will continue working on Jodu and pick up one of my other ideas to work on for my next project.

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  Chop Talk (@choptalk14) reported 36 minutes ago

  @BriankDfw @iAnonPatriot Is there an Apple Store in Collin County? If not they will find a county with one and riot there. It’s not about the location of the issue, it’s about a location worth taking stuff.

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  Moral Priest 🌱Ⓥ ₿ (@MoralPriest) reported 37 minutes ago

  @BeSovereign_1 @0xEthan No. iOS is inherently a problem as it require someone to KYC themself to publish on Apple store. You could compile a version yourself and side load it in theory.

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  Roxie (@Roxi3Roxie) reported 38 minutes ago

  @BunheadHQ They just closed the BAB that looks like this in my mall and replaced it with a shoe store, moved the build a bear down the lot into an ugly apple store esque building. So ugly.

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  Dr. S (@svd33q) reported 38 minutes ago

  @abdool_moh Well, if you buy a phone from Apple Store and it had an issue you can take it to them for repair…if the issue cannot be addressed they’ll give you a brand new one sometimes for free while sometimes you have to pay something depending on the cause of the repair…

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  Shin (@Shinzophrenic) reported 39 minutes ago

  @BasadoBoah @cheribmb Yes. I have no issue with **** or Yuri. But alot of these people get mad over going to the apple store and finding apples. There is no canon Yuri or **** or any bait. The chinese government simply wont allow it even if hoyo wanted to.

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  Harris Zainul (@harriszainul) reported 39 minutes ago

  Terrible experience at TRX’s Apple Store. Was minding my own business with my 14 year old walking in front of me when a staff said “make sure your child doesn’t press the glass”. Doesn’t seem like their store and company is too child friendly. Taking my money elsewhere.

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  Jon Sherrard (@jshez) reported 39 minutes ago

  Contrast the quote my experience: An Employer once had a supply issue with equipment supplier. Opened a new bank account that allowed Apple Pay digital cards over email. Created me a card. Sent it over. Transferred cash onto it, apologised profusely and asked if could go to Apple Store (during work hours so fine with me) Nice to know when you’re working with serious people.

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  Pradeep Pandey (@Div_pradeep) reported 42 minutes ago

  9 out of 10 people replace their iPhone because the battery dies fast. My brother almost did too. Then I opened Settings and changed 7 things in under 10 minutes. His battery went from dying at lunch to lasting all day. Zero cost. Zero Apple Store visit. Here's the exact fix:

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  Sumeet Gupta (@guptasumeet) reported 44 minutes ago

  @AppleSupport my imac has been lying with your genius bar for 20 days with no solution. Its latest model with all the top specs. Within warranty period and your team isnt able to fix it for so long ! Its been lying with your apple store in noida. Poorest customer service!

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  100and1 Gadgets Orchid (@mollfixdiapers) reported 46 minutes ago

  @69LifeCode @EmzyGadgets People that bought from Apple Store in USA face the same issue , The tweet said might and some.

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  tom 🎸 (@uncreativetom) reported 50 minutes ago

  @Andrewislington I had to go to the Apple Store and they just plugged it into another Mac to restore it. I could have done it myself but I only own one, and no friends with Macs were nearby at the time hahaha. The main issue was that I hadn't backed anything up so lost loads of files oops

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  🍩 (opinion arc) (@donutgrillfish) reported 51 minutes ago

  @KASTxyz @tokennation_io Guys the virtual card is not working in Apple Store or pay

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  Pablo (@pablo_devs) reported 51 minutes ago

  @samgeorgegh Eii na what problem are the licenses going to solve that our current educational institutions failed to? Na deploying on Apple store koraa y3 s3n? What value are you offering?

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  Keisuke (@KeisukeIshikawa) reported 55 minutes ago

  DANIEL CHEN BURNED $14,000 A MONTH ON H100s UNTIL HE WALKED INTO AN APPLE STORE AND BOUGHT 1,000 MAC MINIS. his AI startup was getting magic output and a death certificate at the same time. the cloud bill was eating the runway faster than the product could earn revenue so daniel ran the math on running it locally. one $599 mac mini m4 pulls 10-20 watts, costs $3 a month in electricity, and runs 24/7 forever. one $599 box replaces a $200/month subscription he racked 1,000 of them into a single facility. the whole stack draws less power than one nvidia server while pushing the same throughput then in january 2026 ollama added the anthropic messages API. now claude code itself connects to your local mac mini with one environment variable. same interface, zero API costs apple stores ran out of mac minis the same month. $599 one time beats $200 a month forever and the market figured it out before the press did the window is open. follow and bookmark before it closes.

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  Cameron (@e_goeth) reported 55 minutes ago

  My friend did this with his laptop and when he brought it to the Apple Store he had to give them the password and they refused to fix it

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  Chidanand Tripathi (@thetripathi58) reported 57 minutes ago

  12. The "Location-Based Alerts & Apple Ads" The Situation: You assume that seeing targeted ads is just the unavoidable cost of using the internet, and that occasional alerts from your phone are harmless and normal. The System Reality: Apple positions itself as a privacy-first company, but they still have a massive advertising business. Your phone is actively tracking your location, crossing digital geofences, and analyzing your proximity to retail locations to serve you geographically relevant Apple Store ads and location-based suggestions. The Technical Drain: Geofencing is expensive for a battery. The phone has to constantly calculate its distance from invisible barriers to know when to trigger an alert. It’s using your battery power to figure out how to market products to you more effectively. The Fix: Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → System Services → Toggle off "Location-Based Alerts", "Location-Based Suggestions", and "Apple Merchant ID". The Result: You completely sever the connection between your GPS hardware and Apple's internal marketing algorithms. You stop burning battery to get advertised to.

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  Mia🏹 (@faelriel) reported 58 minutes ago

  @mirr0rballerr_ @allieIaurentis I had the same issue but I change my region on the Apple Store and then it became available (get someone address who lives abroad)