Apple Store status: access issues and outage reports
Problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: errors, sign in and website down.
The Apple Store is an e-commerce website operated by Apple Inc. The Apple Store sells devices such as iPhones, iPads, iMacs, Macbooks and official accessories.
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.
July 14: Problems at Apple Store
Apple Store is having issues since 03:20 PM EST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!
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:
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Website Down | 11 days ago |
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Errors | 12 days ago |
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Errors | 17 days ago |
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Sign in | 19 days ago |
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Website Down | 19 days ago |
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Errors | 2 months ago |
Community Discussion
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Apple Store Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Agujiegbe.nad (@valeriannamani) reported@benedicta58119 @ugo6ixugo @uebaridornu nna eeh, we actually have a numbers problem, if we have this much rich people, how come top luxury brands aren't setting up shop here, from certified apple store to others, how come new cars aren't being sold in huge numbers ??
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baby bear’s daddy (@babybearsdaddy) reportedhow 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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kanak soni (@kanakvsoni) reportedI first visited the Apple Store in Jaipur when the problem was intermittent. The technicians couldn't reproduce the issue, so no defect was found at that time. Now that the issue has become frequent, I revisited the store and was informed that the display needs replacement. (5/8)
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cupcakekitty (@cupcakekitty09.bsky.social) (@cupcakekitty09) reportedI was chatting with an elderly friend recently. She said her husband locked his iPhone in error. They went to the Apple store. They couldn’t unlock it. Rather than wipe it, start over, they insisted on selling him a new phone. @Apple
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ಅನಂತ್ ಸುಬ್ಬಣ್ಣ (@AnanthSubbanna) reported@usmantweets_ I got the same problem with my iPhone 14 plus. Rear camera is not working. Unfortunately, as per the apple store, the service program is not going to be covered for my device even though my device is manufactured in Dec 2023. @AppleSupport @Apple pls help
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Steve Jabs (@SteveJabs) reported@DisneyScoopGuy Honestly the hourly call center support dude (or dudette) doesn’t know **** all. Ask for a higher tier of support and that you’re willing to wait for a call back or go through email if need be. Also a good time to visit an Apple Store as someone there will have incentive to fix it for you and not just get you off the phone.
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GoymResistanceAlliance (@GoymResistance) reported@durov Pavel....Apple store and Google App keeps shadow banning many good channels on Telegram. Any chance to fix that?
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Lucas (@Lucas62949380) reportedDownload session app from your Apple Store or play store let’s chat secretly over here concerning hack deals, let’s access her account and login then you can go through everything which you need to know in there 05fe0ad0eaef801c18da5485f2148265d7530ab81b176ffa87fb1995dcd3c24074
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JD'oh (@JDoh2983) reportedI went straight from the curb to the Apple Store in Honolulu, because surely, I thought, Apple could help me. My phone was erased, and the attacker had switched on Activation Lock, the anti-theft feature that binds a device to its owner's Apple ID. The irony was total: the security designed to protect me from a thief was now the thief's tool for locking me out of my own phone. I could not unlock the device in my own hand. Neither could Apple. At the Genius Bar, with my original purchase receipt and a stack of government IDs on the counter, the technicians told me there was nothing they could do. Their best advice was to buy a new phone. Standing right there at the Genius Bar, I made my first call for help, to a friend who works in private security. That was the person who told me, in plain and practical terms, how to start locking everything down, and much of what my wife and I did over the next several days came from that first call. I left the store and went to my cousin's house. Neither of us had the first idea where to begin unwinding this, and we sat there together, two grown men, feeling helpless. It was no longer only about money, though the money went that night too. The person who held my account also held more than 100,000 family photographs, my notes, my data, every password saved in my Apple keychain, my entire iMessage history, and, worst of all, the ability to receive the text-message verification codes sent to my own number, the codes that guard everything else. In one app, the thief sold the investments I held there to raise cash, then reached my wife directly, sending her a payment request that looked to her like it came from me. She was careful and declined the first requests. A later one, appearing to be from me, drew thousands of dollars out of her before she understood that her own husband was not the one asking. Then they drained the rest. Overnight, from Los Angeles, my accounts bled out through a string of Walgreens drugstores, an Arco gas station, and a single charge of thousands of dollars at a Staples, the signature of a gift-card cash-out. Orders were delivered by a food-delivery app to a Los Angeles address I had never heard of. My PayPal was accessed. Two credit applications were filed in my name. When I tried to freeze one account in the middle of the night, I found its support line ran only on East Coast business hours. It was closed. The thief had the whole night, and used it. When the tally settled, several thousand dollars was gone, and only a small fraction has come back. I expected the theft to end when the money did. It did not. Three days later, on June 28, the intruder reached back into the account and erased my smartwatch, off my wrist, in real time. They were still there. And Apple, it turned out, could not simply give the account back. To prove that I was me, Apple's own recovery process required the very thing the thief controlled since they held the trusted number. Then the calls started, a wave of them from that same number ending in 67, a caller posing as an Apple supervisor and riding the spoofed line. After they take everything, they call you, and they sound exactly like the people you are most desperate to trust. And the fraud has not stopped. In the weeks since, the thief has kept opening cryptocurrency accounts in my name, one after another, using the identity he took to move money through channels that are hard to trace and harder to undo. The police, when I met them at my cousin's house, could do almost nothing but take a report. For guidance on the crime itself, I reached out to an old college classmate who is now an FBI agent. He confirmed that the number had been spoofed, walked me through what to document and whom to contact, and steadied me when I needed it.
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KT (@KishorAyar) reported@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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masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reportedA developer walked out of an Apple Store carrying 7 Mac mini boxes. Security watched him. Other customers watched him. He sat down in the lounge, opened his laptop, and got to work before he even got home. Pause at [0:09]. Look at the meter plugged in on the left. 180 watts. That is the entire operation at full load. Your gaming PC idles higher than that. Five M4 Mac minis. Clustered into one machine with EXO. No cloud. No API subscription. No data leaving the room. Ever. A Llama 70B running local on MLX. It ingests a 90,000 word manuscript. Cleans the formatting. Splits the chapters. Marks every line of dialogue with the emotion it should be read in. Then a local voice model narrates the entire book in one locked voice that never gets tired and never raises its day rate. 40 hours of clean audiobook narration. Every month. While he sleeps. He sells the finished files to indie authors and faceless YouTube channels who cannot afford a studio and will not wait three weeks for one. $23 a month in electricity. $11,840 a month out. The 7 boxes on the floor are not a flex. They are the infrastructure. His girlfriend asked why he didn't just buy more. He already ordered them.
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DrPynz (@drpynz) reportedJust 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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Jesper N (@JNorager) reported@NoahJ615 Same issue as the Apple Store. In the EU the will face heavy oversight
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Asrar (@asrrrrrr217) reported@AIAdsApps I have very problem with apple store ?
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DARK DECEPTION (@DarkDeceptionDD) reportedSuper Dark Deception CH2's release has been delayed on Switch, PS4, and PS5 due to patch approval issues. PS4 & PS5 are still expected to launch this weekend. Switch is dependent on Nintendo's response time. Here are the platforms where CH2 is currently available: Steam, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Google Play, Apple Store. Epic Games Store is under review and set to launch early next week.
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Zavian Kairo (@ZavianKairo_AI) reportedThe uncomfortable truth: Apple’s business model rewards storage anxiety. The more often customers see “Storage Almost Full,” the more likely they are to: 1. Pay for iCloud subscriptions 2. Upgrade to higher-storage models 3. Buy a new iPhone entirely Every default setting on a new iPhone trends in the direction of consuming more storage, not less. The 7 fixes above take about 10 minutes total. They cost nothing. They will recover an average of 40–60 GB on most iPhones over 12 months old. The Apple Store employee said one more thing before he left: “We see this every day. Most people don’t even check Settings → General → iPhone Storage before they walk in. They just assume the phone is too small for them. It almost never is.” RT this so more iPhone users stop spending $1,000 on a storage problem that could be solved with 7 toggles.
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H43 (@H486572676574) reported@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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James Harvey (@AgileHarvey) reportedCan’t just walk into the Apple Store and outright buy a new phone without having to make and appointment and sit down with someone. Utterly ridiculous.
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CHUDDYBEST (@ChuchuBr9976724) reportedShe 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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Will Bowen (@Choomytv) reported@pcgamer Ill buy a @Apple Mac Computer it lasts long, @Dell sucks every company i’ve worked for or owned last 2 years and start having problems and become unreliable. Apple i can take it to a Apple store sometimes a same day or next day its fixed, Dell you have to ship that back i’m the mail for weeks, and it still has problems even after Dell says it’s been fixed. 🚮
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Chidanand Tripathi (@thetripathi58) reportedA 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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Oleh (@OlehProductFit) reportedCHINESE DEVS PACKED 1,000 MAC MINIS INTO A SINGLE DATA CENTER AND BUILT A $9,000,000-A-YEAR AI BUSINESS OUT OF APPLE'S CHEAPEST BOX. one thousand silver boxes. rack after rack, floor to ceiling, a wall of fans roaring to keep the whole room cool. Apple sold every one of them for $599 as a desktop for students and creators. these guys turned all thousand into a private cloud that rents compute Western companies charge a fortune for. the build cost around $600,000 once. electricity runs a few thousand a month. and roughly a hundred clients pay monthly retainers to run their models on hardware that never touches the public cloud. run the math and it stops looking like a hobby — boxes bought once, power measured in the low thousands, revenue clearing tens of millions before anyone in the West notices. OpenAI raised billions to build data centers. these guys raised nothing, bought a thousand boxes off the shelf, and quietly undercut the entire industry. the craziest part isn't the scale. it's that every piece of it was sitting in the Apple Store the whole time. tomorrow I'm breaking down how a farm this size is actually wired — the racks, the cooling, the software holding a thousand machines together. save this before running your own cloud stops sounding insane ↓
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Erik Radle (@Radle) reported@JMakeley @ProhibitionUS You can't tell the difference between an Apple Store and a cartel? The PROBLEM is a poisoned supply, cut with fent and rat poison. People are dying not because of drugs but because of cross contamination. Notice how our booze supply isn't poisoned? Legal and regulated industries are not dressed-up cartels, friend. You don't want harm reduction, just control.
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Valerie Stables 🇨🇦Proud Western Canadian (@StablesValerie) reportedAt the Apple Store trying to replace my broken apple pencil under the Apple Care+ warranty. The warranty is active and covers accidental damage. I paid for the warranty at the same time i bought my ipad, pencil, and keyboard. I have the receipt and still a major hassle. /
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Michael Pepper (@M1CHAEL_PEPPER) reported@_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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sn ⚡️ (@delicatesoo) reportedwent to apple store yesterday to get my battery replaced and you’re telling me i need to go back today for a camera issue? ughhhh
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🐈 Marney 🐈 - am forgetful housecat meow~ (@MarneyBoba) reported@rk9466 @faezznaq Lol, apple store peeps managed to fix it so I get to save moolah
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Memories collection (@gunpeiyokoifan) reportedBut FRIEND!!! what if your pocket machine acted funny, but I became technician and figured out how to fix it? like if I worked at Apple Store and you visited America again 🥹
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Jami (@expertwith_AI) reportedThe uncomfortable truth: Apple's business model rewards storage anxiety. The more often customers see "Storage Almost Full," the more likely they are to: 1. Pay for iCloud subscriptions 2. Upgrade to higher-storage models 3. Buy a new iPhone entirely Every default setting on a new iPhone trends in the direction of consuming more storage, not less. The 7 fixes above take 10 minutes total. They cost nothing. They will recover an average of 40-60 GB on most iPhones over 12 months old. The Apple Store employee said one more thing before he left: "We see this every day. Most people don't even check Settings → General → iPhone Storage before they walk in. They just assume the phone is too small for them. It almost never is." RT this so more iPhone users stop spending $1,000 on a storage problem that could be solved with 7 toggles.
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Lucas (@Lucas62949380) reportedDownload your session application on apple store or play store so we have more secret and secure chat there on any account hack you’re down for bro My Session Id 05fe0ad0eaef801c18da5485f2148265d7530ab81b176ffa87fb1995dcd3c24074