Several of Apple’s web-based services, including Apple Music, Apple TV+, the App Store, Podcasts, Contacts and Apple Arcade, will experience outages in some parts of the world as of Monday night. According to Apple’s own service uptime dashboard, users in India may currently experience problems using certain iCloud features, most notably Calendar, Contacts, and Private Relay, as well as Apple Maps and the Find My network.
The issues appear to be cascading, with several flagged offline at different times. In other parts of the world, people have taken to social media to report even more widespread Apple outages affecting the App Store, the Device Enrollment Program, Apple School Manager, the iTunes Store, Apple News and more.
According to the dashboard Apple is making available online, several of its consumer and internal services have experienced temporary or recurring outages. In the case of the iCloud account and sign-in service, the page notes that users may not be able to sign in to their Apple accounts but still be able to use services. However, iCloud web apps were also flagged, explaining only “This service may be slow or unavailable”. iOS Device Activation also became unavailable, but was later marked as resolved, even if issues persisted with other Apple services.
Apple now confirms outages on its website: App Store, Arcade, Business Manager, Music, School Manager, TV+, Device Enrollment Program, iTunes Store, Schoolwork, Radio, Podcasts. pic.twitter.com/Iah90EHEn8
— Mark Gurman (@markgurman) March 21, 2022
Other major companies and services recently hit by widespread service outages include Spotify, Twitter, Discord, Twitch, Slack, Trello, and even Roblox and Counter-Strike.
