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Apple Services Experiencing Outage

114 pointsby rock_artistyesterday at 8:47 PM55 commentsview on HN

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gnarlouseyesterday at 9:01 PM

I don’t think I’ve every heard of an Apple Services outage until today.

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giancarlostoroyesterday at 9:09 PM

Seems both TV and Music are affected, I wonder if it's some storage service somewhere just totally degraded. I love CloudFlare for their total transparency reports about outages. I wish every other company would follow the same standard.

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anderscoyesterday at 9:03 PM

Also seeing outages relating to App Store Connect, currently unable to submit builds to TestFlight.

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apparentyesterday at 10:01 PM

Did this affect notifications/app updates? I found that podcasts from my third-party app were not showing up for me when they normally do. I would assume that when I manually refresh the list, that wouldn't rely on Apple servers, but given this outage maybe there's a linkage?

resoniousyesterday at 11:19 PM

I wonder about APNs and Apple Business Manager. I've heard from people seeing weird stuff happening on those products but I don't see it on the report here.

niwtsolyesterday at 10:43 PM

This outage was affecting developer.apple.com and pushing iOS app versions to test flight/production. I thought I was going crazy, thanks for posting this.

jordemortyesterday at 9:34 PM

Sorry, it's my fault, I migrated my playlists over to TIDAL earlier today

impureyesterday at 11:16 PM

I'm getting a lot of 500 errors when trying to upload my app to App Store Connect. Also the website is loading slowly.

binsquareyesterday at 10:50 PM

Failed to install/download newest xcode after updating Mac.

Guess this explains it.

Does Apple internally do something like COE's like Amazon?

JSR_FDEDyesterday at 10:59 PM

Everything is working 100% for me

rvzyesterday at 9:42 PM

Looking forward to the post-mortem

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seper8yesterday at 10:21 PM

Noticed this too earlier today. App Store apps not downloading.

sneakyesterday at 10:09 PM

Apple services are realtime keys to:

- activation: wiping an iOS/iPadOS/visionOS device, or reinstalling a mac after a full disk wipe

- apns: push notifications, used for realtime notifications for all apps on iOS/iPadOS, even things like Signal that do not use Apple's messaging infrastructure

- imessage: enough said

- boot ticket signing: required for any mac to do an OS update (it's serialized to the CPU's ECID)

any one of these going down for any significant period of time is going to cause widespread global economic disruption.

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