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%)
• Website Down (35%)
• Errors (31%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Montréal	Errors	6 days ago
Ciudad López Mateos	Sign in	22 days ago
Quito	Website Down	1 month ago
Guayaquil	Sign in	1 month ago
New York City	Sign in	1 month ago
Malibu	Website Down	1 month ago

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Apple Store Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  **** Dev 🇨🇳 (@sadchineseman) reported 6 minutes ago

  @TolkienCrafts @AnthonyZ_GTS @D162Michele Yes we need to have VPN to access Internet in China and had to setup an Apple Store abroad as most the app are censored in China . It’s terrible that most of people have no idea about the level of censor in China government do not allow us to see what we want they think we are idiot so we have some people at the top who decides what we have the right to see if you live in China you will understand the misery and suffer we have to endure

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  ज़हाजी (@jahaji_for_life) reported 7 minutes ago

  @chiragbarjatya The charger… its not original… dont blame iphone for your fault man.. own it up.. using it pro max without any issue .. either get it checked in apple store or get it replaced under warranty … but first use original charger…

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  Mai Angwar D Farmer (@melifew213) reported 8 minutes ago

  @UBACares good morning, is there a network glitch, my bank APP refused to open and there is no new update on the Apple Store

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  HardikDG (@hardikdg) reported 8 minutes ago

  @minchoi it's like this for years. tools or company changes issue remain the same. If you put your app on Apple store, they can remove it anytime no matter how popular it is. Before around 10 years, faced the issue in the Stripe as well for one of the customer. Stripe blocked the account in the name of violating the terms and the whole business is broken till alternative is implementation. Some cloud providers also block or ban your account where you entire business is running.

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  Satyam Stonks (@Satyam_Starks) reported 10 minutes ago

  @CRED_club not able to find app in apple store ... couldn't find on web aswell ... unable to login please help

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  David CA6 ~ VTuber Clipper & Software Dev ~ 💫💥 (@david_ca6) reported 13 minutes ago

  MacBook screen broke on Monday... I need it to work... So now I can't use it without an external monitor... Had to go to the Apple Store (1 hour drive)... was told I need an appointment... earliest one was Wednesday (today)... ... At the appointment... I'm ready to pay for the fix... but they refuse to fix it... because the laptop was previously opened... by an Apple employee to replace the defective battery 6 months before... They recommend buying a new MacBook... my macbook is not even 2 years old... and I don't have the $$$ for a new equivalent laptop right now... and Apple just refuse to sell me the LCD or top assembly... So now I need to order a $300 screen from a sketchy seller on AliExpress and hope I will receive it... one day... and that it will work... or not have a laptop anymore... I hate laptop manufacturers...

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  Britler (@JackPackag5) reported 14 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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  Kamil Uğraş Türkoğlu (@kuturkoglu) reported 15 minutes ago

  I’m in Turkey and I’ve been buying from the Apple Store for years without any delivery issues. I placed an order on May 1st. UPS later claimed my address was incomplete. The problem is: my Apple account address is fully detailed, and previous Apple orders were successfully delivered to the exact same address. I called Apple Support and was told they would handle it. Shortly after, I received emails telling me to contact UPS myself. As a customer, my responsibility is to place the order and pay for it — which I already did. Why am I expected to manage Apple’s shipping operation? Today I called Apple Support again, and during the conversation the call was either disconnected or ended by the representative. This is not the “premium customer experience” Apple promotes. Right now, it feels like the customer is simply being left in the middle of the problem. @Apple @AppleSupport

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  Melox (@MeloxJourney) reported 17 minutes ago

  @athcanft Will wait :) quick question how do you create ur apple store screenshots ? That’s my biggest problem do you have an fast solution … I want to submit an app to the store

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  Malguro 𝕏 (@malgurox) reported 17 minutes ago

  @jmkettle My reviews were taken down from Apple Store many times.

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  hunter (@hxxntrr) reported 18 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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  MR JEM LIMITED 🛠 🪖 (@MRJEM0306) reported 21 minutes ago

  @sirmapy Official launch?.. I hope you were able to resolve the Apple Store issue on Peniremit.

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  AWMB_LTD (@AWMB_LTD) reported 23 minutes ago

  @gumroad Example: I launched a mobile app that was accepted to the apple store, only to discover a major error in workflow, so changes had to be made and process repeated. Life.

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  Ian Grimsdick (@TheRamblingRep) reported 27 minutes ago

  @arpan_on_BC If they're perfectly formed boxes, I'd hazard to guess the little cable that connects the motherboard to the display has gotten a little loose. Should be a warranty issue Apple should fix/replace. Head to an Apple store and they should take care of it. There's a chance ...

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  Antidote (@AxelMtbr) reported 27 minutes ago

  @MichaelJBrewis I think one of the biggest issues is how hard it is to demo. Can’t let others try it out. The Apple Store demo is also horrendous. Way too high friction for such a novel device.

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  Shruti (@heyshrutimishra) reported 30 minutes ago

  4/ The Apple Store vs Microsoft Store hiring hack Head of retail comes in proud: "I'm hiring a lot of Apple Store people." Jon stopped him immediately. "Go two doors down. Hire the people from the Microsoft store. They're selling a Surface next to a MacBook Air and they're not starving. Those people know how to sell." The fish were jumping into Apple's boat. You want the fisherman who had to work for it.

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  Modestas (@modestasraz) reported 31 minutes ago

  Crazy, I was searching the Apple Store for an app like the one I'm building with 0 results, and just today - 2 popped up. 1 with the exact name I was going with... Atleast I got the .app domain name It's going to come down to distribution once I release

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  Cody (@feminin_ominon) reported 31 minutes ago

  @JoaoLyraAraujo @markgurman I installed macOS Tahoe then a couple weeks later took my computer to the Apple store and had them re-install Sequoia. The worse software they’ve ever released. They made so many unnecessary changes, it slowed down my working speed and made things more difficult.

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  elev8tor guy (@Elev8torG68249) reported 31 minutes ago

  @DecodingPoliti2 @nypost Yup. The finger is pointed at everyone but the true problem. They blame the union for the apple store leaving. They blame Amazon on the mall closing. They blame white people for their neighborhoods and personal residence being in shambles. Everyone else. Its our fault

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  Mark Smith (@marksmith1045) reported 32 minutes ago

  @ashawolves Sad... you need to go to the apple store. They will help you fix it

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  Elikem King (@KingElikem) reported 36 minutes ago

  @redjungle_077 @tech_twi But you Dey use google and Apple Store , that one you don't have issues with it

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  saad.q (@Saad_q211) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Blackmagic_News I have a problem with the program. When I bought it from the Apple Store, there are no updates regularly. Can I get a refund and buy it from the website, or can you transfer my subscription to the website?

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  Sir Mapy (@sirmapy) reported 44 minutes ago

  Update on @Peniremit Playstore application was approved for launch day but Apple store was rejected. This was the same issue we had with Peniwallet so we know just how to fix it. Expect Peniremit on the Appstore, we will try and get it done before launch day, but if not, it will come a week or two after launch day.

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  Rahul Salve (@RahulSa38820390) reported 45 minutes ago

  @VijaySales hi , i had purchased macbook in khadakpada , kalyan branch 2 months back . I am facing issues with the charger . Should i visit vijay sales or apple store ?

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  Ciprian (@ciprian__b) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Aevmorfop That's a good POV Personally I'm thinkin more about the kind of time when ai gets so good that it can oneshot apps in 2-3 minutes with minimal prompting and no errors When you think about it this way, it gets even faster than searching on apple store or something Obviously, stuff that required servers and so on will still require real apps, so this is more for the small apps like calorie tracking and todo lists and so on

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  anon (@anonmoneyguru) reported 53 minutes ago

  Asked AI why my MacBook wasn’t charging It gave some answers but none of them worked Went to Apple store and talked to a human employee, solved my problem There’s hope for humans

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  RealHausofPaine (@RealHausofPaine) reported 57 minutes ago

  @WallStreetApes I live in Towson, MD. Youth mobs and crime has increased. But there’s a deeper issue. The journalist fails to report, that employees at the Apple Store decided to unionize. The ONLY store in the nation. It failed.

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  Saisei (@SaiseiInvesting) reported 58 minutes ago

  You walk into a Google store in NYC and they cannot fix one of your problems You walk into an Apple store in NYC and they will fix 99% of your problems Make it make sense? $AAPL $GOOGL

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  Gain of Dysfunction Research (@GainOfDR) reported 58 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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  james williams (@jamesandamerica) reported 59 minutes ago

  went to the apple store today because my i phone is slow. the man said to clear my cash. i told him i don’t carry cash for safety reasons. he said that’s not what he meant but i think it is.