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 (38%)
• Website Down (38%)
• Errors (25%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Montréal	Errors	2 months ago
Ciudad López Mateos	Sign in	2 months ago
Quito	Website Down	3 months ago
Guayaquil	Sign in	3 months ago
New York City	Sign in	3 months ago
Malibu	Website Down	3 months ago

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Apple Store Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  free palestine 🇵🇸 (@eclairification) reported 50 seconds ago

  this became very apparent when i was working at the Apple Store genius bar and i hate how all the companies take advantage of making it customers’ problem that they didn’t read while also doing everything in their power to make everybody bad at reading

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  Jami (@expertwith_AI) reported 5 minutes ago

  The 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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  Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) reported 9 minutes ago

  Welcome to Apple. Where everything is carefully scripted. That said, lots of Apple employees have told me the same. Building for Apple's scale is much more difficult than being a startup and launching something on a weekend that isn't secure, is nerdy to use. Go to an Apple store and watch some of the classes people are taking. Many are still figuring out how to use their camera on their iPhone. Getting an agentic system into the OS will take a lot more thought than what OpenClaw or Hermes has put in yet, which are systems designed for early adopters/developers who know what they are doing. It makes Apple seem slow and not innovative. I saw the same inside Microsoft when I worked there. Hard to do innovative things when you have a billion users who are on a spectrum of grandmas to nerds. Then there is protection of their existing business models. I have a phone that has a completely agentic operating system on it, which takes away a lot of the business model of app stores and apps. Apple will take years to do such a thing, is my prediction. If you want such a thing (I do) then you gotta look elsewhere unfortunately. (It runs on Android since that OS lets developers do crazy things like that).

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  Prime AI (@primemans) reported 10 minutes ago

  The 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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  NeilT (@Exogynous) reported 12 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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  Joey  (@IAmTh3Person) reported 14 minutes ago

  @J3nX24 @DylanMcD8 if it does, ill just go to the Apple Store and tell them to pls fix it

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  James Harvey (@AgileHarvey) reported 15 minutes ago

  Can’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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  Nethead (@nethead) reported 17 minutes ago

  Does @Apple have a iPad Pro USB-C charge port issue iPad Pro lasted less than two years USB-C port wouldn't charge, Apple replaced with New iPad (not refurbished) Applecare 2nd iPad Pro 17 months old has same issue, headed to Apple store on Sunday @AppleSupport #CookEra

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  Jacky Fan (@FrankMaoSean) reported 17 minutes ago

  Has the review speed of the Apple Store slowed down again? The submitted update has been pending for three days and still hasn't started the review.

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  كودا (@theweirdphant0m) reported 18 minutes ago

  @DisneyPlusHelp you lied to me and i don’t forgive you. i signed in using the DESKTOP site and there was absolutely NO way to turn off the autoplay you genuinely just lied to me, implement it into the app i swear i’m going to give your app ZERO stars on the apple store reviews until you fix this

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  Miro Jurcevic (@mirojurcevic) reported 19 minutes ago

  I think most nerds have been to the Apple Store and ordered every possible option for a Mac Pro or went to a server vendor and ordered a trillion servers.

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  Chidanand Tripathi (@thetripathi58) reported 25 minutes ago

  The Ultimate Takeaway: Taking Back Your Phone She walked out of the Apple Store at 2:45 PM. Her wallet was exactly as full as when she walked in. Her battery was at 82%. And for the first time in six months, she didn't feel a knot in her stomach about finding a wall plug. The Situation: We almost always blame the physical battery. We think our phones are just getting old, or broken, or that we simply use them too much. We accept living in a constant state of low-battery anxiety, carrying heavy power banks and tangled white cables everywhere we go like we are carrying life support. The System Reality: When you take a brand new smartphone out of the box, it is not actually set up to serve you. It is set up by default to serve app developers, advertisers, and the parent company. It is set up to constantly pull data, refresh feeds, track your location, and report back to base. The Technical Drain: Think about it: you are spending over a thousand dollars on a device, but out of the box, that device is working a full-time, 24/7 shadow job behind your back. It is burning through its own life span and your battery percentage to do things you never even asked it to do. The Fix: Take 12 minutes today to walk through these settings. Turn off the background noise. Shut down the silent trackers. Put up boundaries. Tell your apps they are only allowed to work when you physically tap on them and ask them to work. The Result: Two weeks later, the woman went to bed at 11:00 PM. She placed her phone on her nightstand to charge for the night. The screen lit up: 34%. This is not just about saving your battery life. It is about taking back ownership of your device. It is about getting a clear peace of mind and making sure you own your phone, instead of letting your phone own you.

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  Dawson Gibbs (@dawsbg) reported 26 minutes ago

  The biggest challenge for all consumer apps is acquiring users at the lowest cost. Sweatcoin was having the same issue before it exploded with new users. It was able to acquire users with traditional paid ads, but its CPI would always remain high. Sweatcoin's growth stayed linear until it decided to try a new strategy. And that strategy was mass UGC marketing. Sweatcoin partnered with creators and created organic feeling content. High volume testing of viral hooks and formats. It took these winning viral pieces of content and turned them into Spark Ads. UGC powered paid media. Sweatcoin never had to burn ad spend by guessing on creatives when the creatives were already proven to convert and get engagement. Sweatcoin 10x'd it's ROAS using this viral content made by creators. Hiring tons of creators and ad spend sounds costly, but in reality, Sweatcoin was able to lower its CPI by 53%. In fact, on Apple Store Sweatcoin had the lowest CPI possible. 60 million users acquired. And it all started with one shift in thinking. Mass UGC + UGC powered paid media = 📈 🚀 user acquisition Stop guessing on creatives. Let the market tell you what works. Then put money behind what's already proven. Organic tests it. Paid scales it. Simple as that.

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  girlmom (@amarijenise_) reported 27 minutes ago

  Ryleigh dumb *** iPad acting slow I don’t feel like sitting at this Apple Store all day

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  Zavian Kairo (@ZavianKairo_AI) reported 27 minutes ago

  The 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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  HereForTheGoss (@filmandtvdive) reported 28 minutes ago

  @royzanov That is 100p him lol. The same happened with the NYC Apple Store photo/vid and then someone slowed it down and it showed.

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  idrin74 (@EdyVG74) reported 29 minutes ago

  @MrCreator1 No. I can’t use Apple Store. That s The point. I want To download apps and i can t because i can t put the account and login

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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 29 minutes ago

  His iPhone battery health dropped to 78% after just 1 months of use. He took it to the Apple Store expecting a free battery replacement under warranty. The Genius Bar technician ran every diagnostic. The battery passed every test. The phone wasn't defective. Then she said something he wasn't expecting: "This battery isn't broken. It's been worn down. There are 8 default settings on your iPhone right now that are aging the battery faster than they should and they're all on by default. Apple ships every iPhone with them enabled. Most customers come in here thinking the battery is bad. It's not. The settings are." He asked the obvious question: "Why doesn't Apple turn them off by default?" She didn't answer. She just opened Settings and started walking him through them. Here's everything she showed him in the next 10 minutes. 🧵

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  Erik Radle (@Radle) reported 29 minutes ago

  @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) reported 30 minutes ago

  At 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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  Big G (@Fergy_MUFC) reported 39 minutes ago

  Really don’t know what’s up with these workers at Apple Store in bay plaza. It’s like everybody have attitude. Yall think I want to be here!! As 3 times in 4 months having problems with my AirPods

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  Georgi (@GotinGeorgiG) reported 42 minutes ago

  @seckincreatives @aandreug @framer But why's that a problem, see the Apple Store for instance - it's the absolutely same system, there are millions of apps, most of them are buried and nobody cares for them, let the market decide what works and why. We're in 2026 and marketing and product go hand in hand, there's no way around that, the old way was outdated, so they changed it, my templates are buried as well, but that's no reason to cry just work harder and adapt to what's new.

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  Sean (@sean_plus_one) reported 45 minutes ago

  @yonann Lost me at "Perception of Customer Support" Have a problem, go to Apple store and they handle it. W/ Apple Care no issues. PC, who do I go to? Best buy, where they upsell/run-around try to sell x. Time is your most valuable asset! *Cough

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  Carol ann Clark (@CarolannClhcjv) reported 46 minutes ago

  @CEOMUSK433 I got locked out of my brand new Apple phone and nobody can fix it so I have to go the Apple Store in Calgary on Monday.

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  Vel0x (@vel0xAI) reported 46 minutes ago

  A student in the United States received a $3,000 university grant and spent the entire amount on five Mac Minis, not because he wanted a better study setup, and not because he was trying to impress anyone in his dorm, but because he was tired of waking up every morning and explaining his life to an AI that had forgotten everything by the next session. He did not use the money for textbooks, private tutoring, paid courses, or a new laptop like the university probably expected. He went to an Apple Store, bought five small machines, carried them back to his dorm room, numbered them from 1 to 5 with a black marker, stacked them on a cheap metal shelf beside his desk, connected a power meter to the wall, made instant noodles, and went to sleep while the machines began turning his room into something that looked less like student housing and more like a private AI lab built on scholarship money. His neighbors thought he was mining crypto, which made sense from the outside, because all they saw was a shelf full of computers running through the night, cables hanging behind the desk, a small fan pointed at the stack, and a student who suddenly cared too much about wattage. What they did not understand was that he was not trying to mine coins; he was trying to build a system that remembered his classes, his assignments, his codebase, his mistakes, his goals, and the product he was quietly building while everyone else was still treating AI like a smarter search bar. The problem he wanted to solve was simple but annoying enough to change everything. Every time he opened a new AI chat, he had to explain who he was, what he was studying, what project he was building, what the professor wanted, which parts of the codebase were broken, what he had already tried, what had failed, what he had learned the day before, and why the answer needed to fit his specific situation instead of sounding like generic advice from a model with no memory. He realized that the most valuable thing was not another chatbot, but a system that could keep context long enough to become useful. Each Mac Mini became responsible for a different part of his life. One machine processed his lecture notes and turned them into explanations he could actually understand. Another reviewed his assignments before submission and checked whether his arguments, code, and formatting matched the requirements. A third acted like a private tutor that questioned him until he could explain the material back clearly. A fourth wrote, tested, and refactored code for the product he was building outside class. The fifth coordinated the whole system, kept the rules updated, stored the context, and decided which task needed to run next while he was sleeping. There was no development team behind it, no manager assigning tickets, no daily standup, no productivity consultant, and no university department guiding the experiment. There was only a rules file, five machines on a dorm shelf, and a student who understood that local AI became much more valuable once it stopped being a conversation and started behaving like infrastructure. The university had given him money for education, but he used it to build an education system that did not forget him. That was the part most people missed when they saw the setup. The point was not only that the machines were powerful enough to run useful models locally; the point was that they belonged to him, which meant his lecture notes, unfinished code, business ideas, exam prep, personal mistakes, drafts, and prompts stayed in his room instead of being uploaded into somebody else’s cloud dashboard under somebody else’s terms of service. During the day, he still went to class like everyone else, listened to lectures, submitted assignments, and looked like a normal student trying to get through the semester. At night, the system summarized readings, found gaps in his understanding, generated practice questions, cleaned up code, tested features, wrote documentation, and moved his side project forward without needing him to sit there and manually push every step. When he woke up, he was not starting from zero like everyone else opening a blank chat window. He was starting from wherever the machines had stopped. At first, people in the dorm laughed at the shelf with the numbered Mac Minis because it looked excessive, strange, and slightly ridiculous for a student room. Then they started asking him to summarize lectures they had missed. After that, they asked whether it could help them prepare for exams, review essays, explain technical concepts, debug projects, and remember the context of their classes without forcing them to rewrite the same background information every time they needed help. That was when the private study system became a product. He packaged smaller versions of the setup for other students, not as a replacement university and not as another generic AI wrapper, but as a memory layer for people who were tired of using tools that forgot them every morning. It became private study agents, class note summarizers, exam preparation bots, coding copilots, and project assistants that remembered the user’s material, progress, weaknesses, and deadlines. The grant was $3,000, the machines cost less to run than most monthly subscriptions, and the first paying users came from the same dorm that had originally joked he was mining crypto. What started as a way to survive his own semester turned into a product other students were willing to pay for, because it solved the problem they had all accepted as normal. Now the system makes around $45,000 a month, and the strangest part is that none of it began as a startup pitch. It began as a student using university money to stop repeating himself to a machine. The university thought it was funding his education. What it actually funded was the infrastructure he used to rebuild it.

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  walltzy (@walltzyy) reported 48 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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  bytez (@6uappi) reported 52 minutes ago

  someone stacked 5 Mac Minis on their desk and built a private AI cluster that runs models no single machine could handle no cloud, API key, no monthly bill and no data leaving the room. the tool is called exo(open source) it connects multiple machines over your local network and splits the model across all of them like one giant GPU. what this setup actually does: 5 Mac Minis networked together = combined RAM that can run 70B+ parameter models locally exo handles the distribution automatically you just point it at your machines and it figures out the rest the node graph on screen shows each machine as a node passing inference layers to the next one latency is fast enough for real use. not a toy or demo. a working private inference cluster total hardware cost: less than one month of serious cloud GPU rental the thing nobody talks about: when you run inference locally across your own machines, you own the entire stack. no rate limits. no context window restrictions from a provider. no terms of service. no outage at 2am killing your pipeline. most people think running serious AI locally requires a $30,000 server rack this guy built it from hardware you can buy at any Apple Store

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  rameshinder (@masalanumberone) reported 55 minutes ago

  @Apple hi Apple - worst service at Square one Apple Store, Mississauga. I spend 2 days for battery replacement and now I have to book appointment again because there is some other issue. So spending 3 days of my life and work for this ? @tim_cook @AppleSupport

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  Qianjun Befanis (@QianjunBefanis) reported 57 minutes ago

  Did he said free money? Under fractional banking, $20 million means the bank can lending $2 billion to people previously had been redlining. I hope they hire good underwriters, to prevent unsound deals. I sure there are biz are sound and needs money but their biz is too small or according to data, they live in redlining areas. Hope these loans are going towards good biz and good people. I heard app developers said Apple Store pays them after 45 days, so despite they made a lot of money, but as fast they grow the bigger negative cash flow they had encountered. To small biz owners, negative cash flow due to growth happened to every one of us, so this should be a good problem to solve for them, as they should be able to collateralize their account receivables, if the payers are top rating biz like Apple or Amazon.

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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 59 minutes ago

  A 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.