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 (23%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Brisbane	Website Down	5 hours ago
Salisbury	Website Down	6 hours ago
Guayaquil	Sign in	4 days ago
Ambato	Errors	16 days ago
Ituiutaba	Website Down	18 days ago
Guayaquil	Sign in	22 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Apple Store Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Eric Pate (@Eric_P8) reported 2 minutes ago

  @agupta @1776pax Respectfully Ankit that is not true. Disparate impact means that in practice even a 100% fair colorblind process is *defacto* illegal if it results in a non representative sample of hires. This of course is selectively enforced (big problem), but this means companies have to create explicit goals of hiring people solely for their immutable traits to defend against the EEOC. This isn't just big corporate, when I was a kid and worked Apple retail they had special bonuses for line level managers. I specifically recall Apple Store managers discussing the need to find "Pacific Islander" employees (which was hard in my area of Atlanta at the time) for $15/hr associate roles to get bonuses and promotions. It has been this way my entire life and is clearly anti-merit.

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  Lloyd Robson🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (@Lloyd_Robson7) reported 6 minutes ago

  @KaiserBCFC_ Wow I have 2 iPhone’s, & iPad no issues. You may need to go into the Apple store

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  Kamsiob (@Kamsiob) reported 7 minutes ago

  @DylanMcD8 I remember the first time I saw this phone. Wasn't convinced to get it until I saw a friend who had it face down on a table and asked him what that was. Within an hour I was at the Apple store getting ready to shelf my Palm Treo which I had just recently switched to from a BB.

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  John Strom (@JohnStrom64) reported 8 minutes ago

  @ValerieAnne1970 Yep. My iPhone 11 suddenly started having issues typing messages. Never damaged or wet. Just one day, started acting up. I took it into an Apple Store and was told that it would cost more to ‘fix’ it than to get a new one and they wouldn’t guarantee they could even fix it.

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  Mostafa Ezzat (@mostafaezztaman) reported 9 minutes ago

  @Apple @AppStore @AppleSupport I don't think it's professional that waiting 3 days to get a response on Apple Store Connect support. This's doesn't fit Apple so far! The iOS app has been in review for almost a week and I'm keep messaging back and forth about changes has been done and still getting some issues from no where. The team reaches out ever 3 days!!! So I need someone from Apple Store Management to get this through.

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  James (@jamescoder12) reported 9 minutes ago

  The uncomfortable truth. Apple ships the Apple Watch with every feature enabled because the spec sheet is the sales pitch. "Always-On Display. Continuous heart rate. Environmental noise monitoring. Blood oxygen. Temperature sensing." Every feature justifies the price tag. Every feature sounds essential on the product page. But every feature also drains the battery. And Apple rates the watch at 18 hours with "normal use" a definition they control by choosing which features count as "normal." When your watch dies at 2 PM, Apple doesn't say "you have too many features running." They say "the battery lasts 18 hours." When your battery health drops to 80% after 2 years, Apple doesn't say "your charging habits degraded the cells." They offer a $79 replacement or a $449 upgrade. Apple makes money when your battery degrades. They make money when you upgrade. They do not make money when you change 9 settings and keep the same watch for 5 years. The guy who charges every other day and the guy who charges twice a day own the exact same device. Same chip. Same battery. Same hardware. One of them opened Settings. The other opened the Apple Store. "Your Apple Watch doesn't have a battery problem. It has a settings problem. And the company that sold it to you has no incentive to tell you the difference." 9 settings. 7 minutes. Same watch. Twice the battery. The watch was never dying. It was just running a marathon with every feature Apple could strap to its back.

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  The Augmented Path (@AugmentedPath) reported 12 minutes ago

  Tried Apple’s new hardware leasing option and got sent through @Klarna. Rejected with no explanation, then dumped back to the Apple Store home screen with an empty cart. Apparently Klarna wants you to build a purchase history with them before they’ll “trust” you. If they actually checked my credit history, approval wouldn’t be an issue. Really disappointing to see @Apple outsource financing to a company with a model like this.

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  LibbyAnn C (@MarineLibby) reported 14 minutes ago

  @OzzySkateboard Here are a few bullet points from my week/month/summer/year/decade: I got up to an iPhone 12 that I bought fresh from the Apple Store in the summer of 2022 on my way to the airport to fly for an African Safari vacation. I realized my smashed camera iPhone wasn't gonna do. Only time I ever bought fresh from the store. Four years later I bought my third third iPhone 12, second refurbished iPhone 12 best of the best and got all kinds of screwed over by Walmart and Apple and Allstate Square trade protection plan so I am now mailing in my broken iPhone iPhone 12 and this is one of the last things I will do on this phone, the top half of the touchscreen doesn't work. They are giving me almost what I paid for it only because the seventh operator I talked to acknowledge that I started to return the phone before they anomalously cancel the insurance protection plan six days later. That was a month ago apparently on the books and I've been discussing this with them for three weeks. OK that was very very in-depth and just one bullet point. The end of the bullet point is I'm going to start using an LGK 51 I have lying around and maybe just use it for a map and texting and do literally everything else on my computer if and when I want to accept YouTube I will continue to do on the television from time to time but I will become a lot more selective in the content I view and I am unsubscribing from many many many many content creators who are feeling really bad this week for Perez Hilton, thanks for telling me that y'all are tethered opposition!!!

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  Izuma Bakumatsu (@izumabakumatsu) reported 15 minutes ago

  I think it's time AT leaves Apple store cause they've always been such problems with these kinda games. That said... this has been a nice time to actually go through the archive events for once.

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  Anthony Woolf (@anthonywoolf) reported 17 minutes ago

  Is it possible we are at the beginning of the end of the smartphone era? If AI is as big as it appears to be, computer and memory will flow to its applications (from datacenter to edge). This will cause price inflation for smartphones, including and perhaps especially Apple ones because Apple's edge has been ever more advanced compute (and better cameras), alongside of course amazing software. So iPhones go up in price, margins go down, and people upgrade less. Apple's strategy of on-device AI exacerbates the problem because it adds cost, but not much functionality. On device Apple models sound like the elegant and profitable way to avoid the capex-AI investment cycle bedeviling Wall Street, but it instead pushes Apple headlong into a high price, low margin winter of expensive on device AI combined with an awkward partnership with its primary competitor, Google (who seems to be losing its AI mojo as we speak). And as an aside, I had the unusual experience at the Apple Store yesterday of being upsold aggressively on Apple News+ and some business service thing I didn't want. Apple service revenue is important, but it's very tied to Apple devices (especially Apple Care). Anyways, just a thought. Not bagging on Apple, but the thought occured to me that if the competition for scarce computer and memory doesn't let up, Apple's salad days of ever more powerful iPhones at a reasonable cost may be over.

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  Christopher Woggon (@chrissyinspace) reported 17 minutes ago

  I just poured juice into my MacBook. It wasn't a lot, but enough to worry. Dried off, tent mode. You know what's really annoying about modern MacBooks? They turn on after the slightest touch of any key. The power button is touch-sensitive (no physical "push" needed). The thing turned on 6 times on the way home. Local shop in Bangkok won't fix it (it voids warranty). Not enough time for bringing it to the Apple Store (I leave in 3 days). There's an authorized shop in Da Nang, but it takes ~3 weeks (according to reviews). I leave after 2.5. After that I'm in Korea. No issue there, but it's 3 weeks after the incident. Apparently juice is the worst (corrosion). I always drink black coffee ... the one day I don't 😣 The upside: I have AppleCare+. It's covered no matter how far the corrosion proceeds, and what breaks. Also, I have my old MacBook Air. I can keep working. Kind of weird timing after my recent posts (see quoted). It'll be fine, but damn it's stressful. It's nice to be able to scream "liquid on keyboard, new branch, push everything, quick" at your agents. They really did hurry. Now I can continue working. </life-update>

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  Theron (@theron_chase) reported 18 minutes ago

  None of this requires spending $249 on a new pair right away. It's three things: check real charging habits, turn off features you don't need, and ask about the $49–$69 official battery replacement before assuming a full replacement is the only option. Go check your AirPods settings right now. If this was useful, RT the first tweet so someone else saves $200 before their next Apple Store visit. And if you've got a specific AirPods battery or connection question, reply and I'll help you track it down.

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  CJ Tokoni (@CjTokoni) reported 18 minutes ago

  @jafivet All she had to do was just go to the Apple Store and they will fix it

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  LibbyAnn C (@MarineLibby) reported 26 minutes ago

  I wonder how best to share my experience I fear if I did it real time for content It would be hours and hours and hours of me accomplishing minuscule things. Maybe I need time lapse videography for this. I would attach the photo that tells you how Apple won't let me rotate the settings screen or the Apple Store screen, but there's a really easy way that I could manage the selections of the menu in the top half of the screen using the accessibility voiceover feature and that just gives me like 10 steps to follow SMH, I am pretty sure I will try and do it through the laptop and sign in through the cloud and then go to subscriptions because it sounds easier than the 10 steps that I wish I could attach in a photo but then I can't hit the button to finish the attachment because you have the top half of the phone touchscreen won't work and.... I need to check how many days Walmart is giving me before I have to return this device because I just wanna make sure I could do everything in the cloud that needs to be done or that I do everything on the device that I'm supposed to before I send it backs.... I am completely accepting advice from everyone and anyone who has 100% dissociated from Apple, not just switched providers but made sure that they did not leave any data in the cloud behind

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  rozie (@rozieramati) reported 28 minutes ago

  the endless livestream started when i was at the cheesecake factory for the 1st time with my mom. this boy i liked was the first to text me about it. my phone was ab to die so i pleaded to go charge my phone in the apple store. my mom agreed & i ran down the grove to watch <3

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  canid (@dilfboner) reported 30 minutes ago

  [getting down on one knee and revealing an engagement ring] will you be the apple store to my gay little monkey

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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 34 minutes ago

  The uncomfortable truth: Apple operates 500+ retail stores worldwide. Each one generates more revenue per square foot than any other retailer on earth. And most customers use the store for one thing: buying a product and leaving. Free workshops that teach photography, video, music, and device mastery never attended. Genius Bar diagnostics that are free on any device never requested. Trade-in valuations that take 3 minutes and apply instantly never checked. Price matching against Best Buy and Target never asked for. A 14-day return window for risk-free testing never used strategically. Free data transfer and setup declined and regretted at home. Education and military discounts worth $100-229 never mentioned. Device recycling for every old gadget in your drawer never brought in. Every service is free. Every service is available. Every service exists to make the device you already bought more useful and the next purchase more affordable. The former employee's last line: "I worked at Apple for 5 years. I sold thousands of devices. But the most rewarding part of my job was the services not the sales. Setting up an 80-year-old's first iPhone and watching her FaceTime her grandkids. Teaching a teenager iPhone photography and watching his photos improve in 90 minutes. Running diagnostics on a 'dead' MacBook and fixing it with a software reset for free. Giving a genuinely kind customer a free battery replacement that should have cost $89 because she treated me like a person, not a register. The Apple Store isn't just a store. It's a service center. A classroom. A repair shop. A trade-in counter. A recycling facility. Most customers use 10% of it. The other 90% is free and waiting." 11 secrets. Same Apple Store. Same glass doors. The products are on the tables. The services are behind the Genius Bar, inside the workshop schedule, and on the website you've never scrolled. Walk in this weekend. Not to buy something. To learn something. Fix something. Trade in something. Ask about something. The store was always more than a store. Most customers just never asked.

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  Roger (@rgrfoss) reported 35 minutes ago

  Apple store connect review process is broken. Takes over a week to review an app.

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  ยุทธการ (@yuthhkr8256064) reported 36 minutes ago

  Just caught my intern trying to use the office stapler to fix their broken AirPods case—office supplies u003e Apple Store repairs, agreed

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  William AI (@wiliam23820a) reported 38 minutes ago

  6. Free data transfer and setup the service most buyers decline and then struggle alone. When you buy a new iPhone, iPad, or Mac at the Apple Store: the staff will transfer your data from your old device, set up the new one, and walk you through the key features. Free. Most customers say "no thanks, I'll set it up at home" then spend 3 hours figuring out data transfer, re-downloading apps, re-entering passwords, and troubleshooting iCloud sync issues. The Apple Store setup takes 20-30 minutes. They do it while you browse. They transfer contacts, photos, apps, and settings from your old device. They pair your Apple Watch. They configure Face ID. They verify iCloud backup. For seniors and less tech-savvy buyers: the in-store setup eliminates the most frustrating part of a new device. You walk in with an old phone. You walk out with a new phone fully set up, fully loaded, fully working. For Mac buyers: the staff transfers files, settings, and applications from your old Mac to the new one using Migration Assistant. Everything transfers. Even your desktop wallpaper.

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  ZoneCrypto (@_ZoneCrypto_) reported 41 minutes ago

  📰 News of the day — August 16, 2026: ✦ DefiLlama has postponed its mobile app launch due to phishing apps on the Apple Store: DefiLlama's founder revealed that the company delayed its mobile app release while addressing the issue of phishing apps impersonating it on the Apple App Store. After documenting a fraudulent app draining funds from a crypto wallet, Apple promptly removed it. The founder emphasized the importance of ensuring all fake apps were eliminated to protect users from scams before the official launch of DefiLlama's app.

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  Ibrahim Kwajaffa (@ibrahimkwajaf) reported 47 minutes ago

  @Hassaan_Shehu @DStvNg @InterswitchGRP Download mydstvapp on play store or apple store. Use it to clear E16 error.

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  Lulu (@petite_luluu) reported 50 minutes ago

  hey guys i missed you so bad. my phone decided to ******* die so i went to the apple store today to fix it and apparently i needed an appointment. I wanted to make my whole account about the trip to bangkok but it’s hard to it with an ipad😭

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  Kenzo (@Kenzo1g) reported 52 minutes ago

  @playwithtomide Not a site but an app “DRM sport” available in apple store or you can also down “Nova soccer “

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  Dylan Bishop (@DylanBishopX) reported 54 minutes ago

  @Metacogmission @spatialinsider ok yeah beginning to think its my Vision Pro guess I'll have to take it down to Apple Store thanks

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  Carl (@Gladvillain) reported 55 minutes ago

  @13_T_C It uses the xpub so we shouldn’t have any problems. But who knows really. Make sure you use the right one and not a scam. A guy last year lost 6 Bitcoin because he downloaded a fake sparrow app from the Apple Store. They have no app.

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  YPG4⚡ (@ypg4anderson) reported 55 minutes ago

  @ShishirShelke1 Now iPhone X user go to Apple Store try to fix it and Apple employee force iPhone X User to upgrade to new iPhone

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  Flannery (@moment4887) reported 56 minutes ago

  @MoMo_PSB Why is my momo app not working. Even the used is not working. It’s telling me to go and download the new version from Apple Store any your app as been taken down

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  RaymondMagoo2 (@RaymondMagoo2) reported 56 minutes ago

  @bertram_the_mom Right. Seems that way. My iPhone I had 6 years ago died maybe 1 month after paid off. Apple Store said no way to fix it!

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  Jeff Sunday (@TheDegenWeekly) reported 57 minutes ago

  @BookitWithTrent @PrizePicks Well I'd like to answer but both options say "decline" which leads me to think that there might be an issue with my phone so I'd take it to the Apple Store for a diagnostics check