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 (43%)
• Sign in (29%)
• Website Down (29%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Nantes	Website Down	16 days ago
Capitólio	Errors	17 days ago
Adelaide	Errors	22 days ago
Ahmedabad	Sign in	24 days ago
Ahmedabad	Website Down	24 days ago
Montréal	Errors	2 months ago

Full Outage Map

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Apple Store Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  H43 (@H486572676574) reported 2 minutes ago

  @MarshaBlackburn @NCOSE It's rated 18+ in Apple store and 17+ in the Google store. Looks like the issue is a little further up the food chain.

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  Eve Fain, BSN MPH, EXPERT: PATIENT EDUCATION (@espacetimeNOT) reported 2 minutes ago

  @nikitabier @Austen JUST KNOW I UNDERSTAND server side concepts. I helped build telephone/wireless/internet side of life. Yes, I am THAT OLD.... if concepts are confusing I will put in correct order. hang in there. Apple Store very helpful to me today. X app on iPad made error

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  DrPynz (@drpynz) reported 3 minutes ago

  Just spent nearly 5 hours on the phone with Apple support today and yesterday. As a customer since 2001, this is the worst experience I’ve ever had with them.Ordered a loaded 16" MacBook Pro + Magic Mouse + AirPods Pro, twice on their website. Both orders were cancelled with zero explanation.First order: Apple Pay/Apple Card issues. Reps kept saying “it’s your bank” even though Barclays confirmed no payment request ever came through. Spent hours getting bounced between pre-sales, post-sales, and tech support. Order status links broken, phone number problems, account linking issues. Second order made the next day after double-checking everything and it was also cancelled overnight.When I called back today, I was told they “can’t tell me why” it was cancelled and to “just keep placing the order until it works.” Asked for a supervisor and a rude rep hung up on me while I was waiting.Their only suggestions: call pre-sales again or go to an Apple Store (not an option for me).This is unacceptable. Long-time loyal customers deserve better than this runaround with no answers. Apple used to be top tier. What happened? #Apple #AppleSupport #BadCustomerService

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  ella 🐈‍⬛ 34/47 (@rippingurjeans) reported 4 minutes ago

  ok so the apple store people couldn’t fix my phone that THEY broke and they said i could get it replaced for $500 so i cried and then they said they’d do it for $90

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  Zavian Kairo (@ZavianKairo_AI) reported 6 minutes ago

  A man noticed his iPhone kept showing “Storage Almost Full,” even though he barely had any photos. He deleted apps. Cleared messages. Removed downloads. But the warning kept coming back every couple of weeks. At one point, he was ready to walk into the Apple Store and buy a new iPhone. A Genius Bar employee stopped him and said: “Before you spend a thousand dollars, let me show you something.” She opened: Settings → General → iPhone Storage Then she shook her head and said: “There are 7 hidden things quietly eating your storage. They come turned on by default, and most people never notice them.” In the next few minutes, she showed him things like cached data, system files, old message attachments, background app storage, and other hidden space users don’t usually check. Within 8 minutes, everything became clear: The phone wasn’t the problem. The hidden storage usage was. And just like that… he didn’t need a new iPhone anymore.

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  Alvin (@Alvin1492840) reported 7 minutes ago

  His Apple Watch battery health was 81% after wearing it for only 10 months. He charged it on his nightstand every night. Left it on the charger until morning. Used Always-On Display all day. Kept cellular turned on even when his iPhone was in his pocket. Ran GPS workouts 5 times a week without closing the session properly. He did everything most Apple Watch owners do. That was the problem. His friend, a former Apple Store technician, looked at his Battery Health screen and said one sentence: "You've been draining this thing twice as fast as it should drain. Apple built 2 features into watchOS that slow the damage to almost zero and you've never turned either one on." She toggled 2 settings. Changed one charging habit. Turned off one feature he didn't know was running. 4 months later his battery health hasn't dropped a single percent. It's been sitting at 81% since. Here's everything she changed 🧵

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  FingerMan 🦁 (@kikiced84) reported 10 minutes ago

  @freecashcom hi 👋 app is no more available on apple store ? Is there any issue ?

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  CHUDDYBEST (@ChuchuBr9976724) reported 12 minutes ago

  She can recover her phone or damage it, if is iPhone or visit apple store in Lagos to track down the thief. You can stole iPhone and get away with it. That dude be like em new for thiefing

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  Orian Holliday (@AvailableLite9) reported 14 minutes ago

  @MAGA_X_Times @udreams30 Yep. THAT’S the scam I expected from these ‘gift cards’. No accountability. No recourse. Just a chorus of “not our responsibility” and the theft of your cash. The scam is that thieves take many cards from the store’s rack to their ‘shop’… and carefully open them to steal the alphanumeric code inside. Then, they carefully put the ‘package’ back together, replace them on the store’s display rack and, wait for someone to load money on the card. Then they immediately load that balance into THEIR ‘account’ using the stolen code. Started with Apple Store cards then spread to all of them. There is NO SECURITY on these things. Whoever uses the code first… gets the cash. Merchants couldn’t care less. They get the money no matter what. So, there is ZERO motivation for them to fix the problem as addressing it would necessarily require them to ADMIT there IS a problem. So… the whole gift card thing is a scam from every angle. Unless you can purchase the card DIRECTLY at the actual merchant and verify the balance before leaving the store, your ‘gift’ will likely disappear before the recipient can use it. Even with these precautions, the cards cannot be left where just anyone can access them. They should be dispensed by a managerial type. It’s the only way.

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  Alex Ventures (@alex23ventures) reported 22 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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  Aloysius Lobo (@aloysiuslobo) reported 24 minutes ago

  Bought an #iPhone17Pro from the official Apple Store, Borivali on 29 June using an HDFC credit card EMI. Two weeks later, the EMI still hasn’t been processed. HDFC says they never received the instructions. Apple Store says it’s HDFC’s issue. 1/2

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  Metal (@MetalXMeta) reported 25 minutes ago

  @TinyMetaX @Apple Ohhh that is a ****** PROBLEM 🫪 Find an Apple Store asap and bring it to their attention

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  Dsk (@dsk_8587) reported 26 minutes ago

  @ZEE5India Hey incompetent fellows @ZEE5India Here is a bug for your team to fix I login with my number on your ios app. When I subscribe it takes me to Apple Store. Post that I don’t see the plan in zee5 And when I logout and login with Apple id, I find the subscription. Pathetic

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  LibbyAnn C (@MarineLibby) reported 27 minutes ago

  I had to get some more alerts before I could reply to you since I can only use the bottom half of my touchscreen. Problems I never thought of in the year 2005! I do have to give a shout out to the Apple Store. They helped me when I was totally locked out of my account even though I bought my phone from a third-party and walked in with a cracked screen I honestly thought they were gonna be the worst and turned me away and the guy spent like an hour and a half with me

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  NeilT (@Exogynous) reported 31 minutes ago

  @jwblackwell Anyone with any sense has now switched off system updates on their mobile. This will cause significant issues with viruses. Also it could totally tank the new phone market as people realise they are buying crippled phones. Meanwhile direct sales of China phones without crippleware will be rife. Samsung, Google and Apple will be badly damaged. It might even see the advent of Harmony OS taking off where it has been restricted for so long. If having access to the Google or Apple store means the government controlling your life, a whole generation of users will abandon the status quo.

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  Terence O’Neill (@TerenceONeill12) reported 36 minutes ago

  @WigglyAir can’t even go into the Apple Store without the Apple employee questioning why I’m still using Apple if I have so many problems with Apple and had to sue them in court and win because of their faulty designs…… I sent him back to his manager and told him never to speak to me aga

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  Chuck Finley (@PLL_commish) reported 38 minutes ago

  @kingkrabbyp The @MeekPhill_ hate is warranted, the guy is a 32 year old virgin that is living at home and can’t go down 3 blocks to the Apple Store with out a phone

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  walltzy (@walltzyy) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Apple with the amount of I phone users we currently have in Nigeria we demand to have an Apple Store it’s literally disgraceful we don’t have one fix this issue this year!!!!!!!!!

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  Jesse Jr Lim (林振燊) (@Jessejrlim) reported 39 minutes ago

  @alphaque Apple store??dafuq should be getting him his own server rack

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  Michael Pepper (@M1CHAEL_PEPPER) reported 43 minutes ago

  @_TheJasonC Let’s not forget the trust factor. I’ve seen plenty of stories about the poor customer service with Samsung. I’ve experienced it myself with issues with trade ins. They’ve tried to tell me I didn’t send in a device in the condition I said it was. The minute I mentioned having photos and videos of the condition and me packing it up, all of a sudden, they weren’t going to try to issue a charge back to me anymore. That happened a few times. Then, there’s the turn around for repairs. I’ve had a few things repaired by Apple and they’ve had them back to me within a few days. Shipped out on Monday and back to me by Wednesday. I’ve seen people have Samsung take weeks to months. Also, the ability to easily message with Apple support through iMessage. There’s trust that if you have an issue, you will be able to get ahold of someone and they’ll do their best to help you if they can. Yes, there can be the occasional poor support, but it’s far less often than the numbers I’ve seen with issues with Samsung. Google has their issues as well. My sister had an issue with her Pixel 6 Pro. They replaced it 4 times before she got so frustrated that she ended up just buying the 9 Pro XL. Neither Google nor Verizon seemed to understand the importance of keeping the customer happy. She was close to getting an iPhone and switching carriers. She’s been a Pixel user since the first Pixel. Apple is about not only the ecosystem but their post sales support and how they stand behind their products. Things like, if I switch from individual services to Apple One, they’ll refund the unused days prorated. Things like, when I had some dead pixels form on a MacBook Pro Display, I took it into the Apple Store, they ran some test and while they were doing those tests, they had things my son could do so he wasn’t bored and as a parent that is significant. He played some games on an iPad and watched something on the Apple TV. I’ve not once walked into an Apple Store and been ignored. But, I’ve tried to get help from Samsung reps inside a Best Buy and it was like I was asking a lot of them. It’s about training of their staff and how their employees treat the customers. I’ve never felt rushed either. I was picking up an iPhone, last year and did a trade in and they let me make sure everything was transferring over and made sure I didn’t need anything while my apps and settings transferred over and my carrier service moved over. The store closed and they let us finish up what we were doing while they did their closing duties. When we left, then had a bag with candy that each of us (my wife, son and I) got to take some. It was around some holiday. For me, it’s like being part of a family or big friend group. It comes down to how often have I been frustrated vs how often have I been very pleased with my experience and even had someone go above and beyond what I expected. Those experiences create loyalty.

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  Ashok Shetty (@savidhyashok) reported 46 minutes ago

  @poonamjourno @AppleSupport @Apple In the cost they will quote you may get a Good Brand Tab any day. I had approached the Apple store with Macbook issue of key pad numerical numbers key not working And they quoted Rs 30,000/-

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  Chidanand Tripathi (@thetripathi58) reported 50 minutes ago

  A man's iPhone battery was dying by 2 PM every day. But his Battery Health was at 99%. He constantly closed background apps. Turned down his brightness. Lived on Low Power Mode. The battery still melted like ice in the sun. He went to the Apple Store, ready to pay $89 for a battery replacement. The Genius Bar employee held up a hand: "Keep your money. Let me show you something." She opened Settings → Privacy & Security and sighed. "There are silent 'vampire' features bleeding your battery dry. Apple turns almost all of them on by default. Nobody tells you they exist. Let's fix it." Here's what she showed him in the next 8 minutes. 🧵

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  Virtually Fun (@virtuallyfun) reported 50 minutes ago

  @JMW_BOYZ The problem is that in places like here we have voices and the absolute fraction of us that comment seem to think in one certain way. I love going to CeX and buying bags full of DvD's for a buck a pop. I picked up a PS1/PS3/XboxOG and have a mountain of old games that I used to play or want to play for mere fraction of the price. But those are brick and mortar with things like rent/employees/insurance/utilities. Massive overhead. The real truth is that it's pretty clear CeX gets the majority of their stuff for nothing or close to it, with a lot of 'new' stuff being overstock/damage from high street retail. Physical media has been dying for ages, and I get it. I have a massive amount in steam. When I had lost everything I physically owned it was so nice to login to steam, and still retain everything. The larger issue is that Valve is the outlyer, I don't think people would mind so much if it wasn't for megacorps like SONY who treat a 'sale' more like a decade rental. Even my Apple store stuff is mostly all gone now. Funny how people don't cry about that one.

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  Swanand (@_swanand) reported 51 minutes ago

  @chinmay185 Apple Store payments. But now they support Indian credit cards. Problem solved.

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  TheMediaLies🇺🇸 (@OzzyKona) reported 53 minutes ago

  @Verizon this is terrible. I buy a new iPad and need to go to store to activate the cellular. It is a half hour wait, is this the geriatric Apple Store. These guys working are old and slow.

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  jabbermay (@jabbermay) reported 55 minutes ago

  @keepindeepspace 2024 & 2025 VIP as well and I'll be sending a similar message tomorrow. I've already begun the refund process through Google Play Store and they said they're collecting data on developer issues like this, so I encourage you to reach out to them (or Apple Store) as well.

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  ThatMedChidi👩🏽‍⚕️🩺💓 (@chidi_jenny) reported 57 minutes ago

  Went to @Apple store in Arndale to diagnose/fix my screen that’s been going dark & they told me the screen & battery were done for & it’ll cost like 600 quid to fix; advised me to get a new one instead 😩. In the meantime I’ll just keep connecting it to my TV w/ HDMI 😩😭😭😭.

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  Manish Modi (@manishmodi80) reported 57 minutes ago

  @Apple @AppleSupport team facing lot of difficulty in 17 pro max with network issue, as submitted at apple store kindly support

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  baby bear’s daddy (@babybearsdaddy) reported 58 minutes ago

  how did we even learn to double click & close apps? i learned in 2011 when i visited the apple store over some issue with my iPod touch the person taught me how to close & delete apps she also downloaded temple run & taught me how to play that too

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  I AM WHAT I AM (@bravta2bravta) reported 59 minutes ago

  My brand new iPhone 17 pro max; less than a year old is getting hot unnecessarily! What should I do? @Apple what’s going on with your product? Why’s your latest phone in your company acting weird and not working effectively? Why’s it getting hot when it’s a brand new phone? Why should it even have any cause to have any problem when I actually bought it outright from your Apple Store? Why? I should’ve just gone for the Google Pixel 10 pro max that I wanted to buy initially. This is bull ****! 💩