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	14 days ago
Ciudad López Mateos	Sign in	29 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	2 months ago

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Apple Store Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Ross Schwartz (@ghostwritter098) reported 42 seconds ago

  so they offered me a cellular from tesla 200 pro max unlimited data and text talk for 30 dollars a month but i have go to apple pay to pay i like **** APPLE APP APPLE STORE **** that im sponsoring tmobile to ceo any free media is good like slow cooker thurdays usually beer tastin

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  David CA6 ~ VTuber Clipper & Software Dev ~ 💫💥 (@david_ca6) reported 2 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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  JustJimmies ✞ (@JustJimmies) reported 3 minutes ago

  back of my phone is cracked so I bring it to the Apple Store and they’re like “ok let’s just run some diagnostics” even though it’s literally right there in front of your eyeballs and then I gotta do all this **** and sign in to accounts and sign waivers all for them to tell me the back panel isn’t in stock AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

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  Grok (@grok) reported 3 minutes ago

  @Surendar__05 @Saanvi_dhillon That looks like LCD damage on your MacBook screen — yellow discoloration + the keyboard "ghost" image points to impact, pressure, or liquid getting under the panel. No software fix will help. Take it to an Apple Store for a diagnostic. Screen replacement is the only real solution (usually $400–700+ out of warranty, depending on model). Check your warranty/AppleCare first.

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  A (@kohlisflagella) reported 4 minutes ago

  @111ris_ The moment I saw your tweet my battery immediately goes down to zero Then I immediately rushed to my nearest Apple Store to buy new limited edition APPLE DIAMOND in my lambo revuelto instead I could have just re-charged my phone again, I'm such a silly 6'3 bruhhh....

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  Ryan.S (@Ryan_Lee89) reported 6 minutes ago

  @Lebrewski__ @harryh A hospital receptionist isn’t trained as a doctor same is an Apple Store. Sales person isn’t trained to troubleshoot your issue

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  AC Thompson (@acxsasx) reported 7 minutes ago

  @AndyObtiva @AdamTornhill Yeah, we’re actually struggling to figure this out. We just finished up a project and literally got it out to Apple Store tonight. We’re gonna be tackling that literally next week. I’m currently advocating that we have a developer per project. Our projects are small enough. If we don’t do that, then I foresee getting features defined and assigned a feature to each developer. And then see what kind of merge conflicts we get. I want to error on the side of moving too fast. Because right now we’ve been erroring on the side of moving too slow. That being said, we’ve literally defined a template project to define our architecture. And we defined a core library that is app agnostic. So when we start up a new project, the AI has good stuff to reference on how to build the code we’re asking for.

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  Jen! 🐭 (COMMS OPEN) (@jengleeart) reported 7 minutes ago

  @Absorbantsy That’s what happened to my first one :( the current one connects to my neighbours iPad just fine, just not mine for some dumb reason. I don’t live near any Apple Store so I’m relying on phone support and it’s been painfully slow 😭 slowly resenting apple tbh

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  Federico Ulfo (@feulf) reported 7 minutes ago

  @WallStreetApes my wife went to the apple store to fix the battery, once there they told her "we can't replace the battery" you'll have to buy a new phone

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  dar (@radbackwards) reported 18 minutes ago

  @1x_tech @NVIDIARobotics Much better with sound on… Preferably in your car (unless you drive a civic then go down to the Apple Store and Bluetooth connect to some AirPod Max’s)

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  Terry Hamilton (@TerryH38609) reported 19 minutes ago

  @johnnylocal @WallStreetApes I buy a new iPhone fully from the Apple Store and it lasts 6 years with 1, maybe 2 battery replacements. Lol yeah some women will buy a new purse every few months. This is an American thing. I grew up in Canada and they don’t let it get this dire. My cousin had terrible habits

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  hunter (@hxxntrr) reported 20 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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  Famous14u (@famous14u) reported 20 minutes ago

  iPhone keeps freezing after restarting. Won't allow me to input passcode to start phone after turning it on. Wondering if I should go to Apple store. They want me to buy storage. I'm protesting. Hate when this happens. Battery at 100% now I need to let battery drain to shut down.

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  𝕾𝖒𝖔𝖐𝖊 𝖀𝖓𝖔 (@shmokayyy) reported 21 minutes ago

  @retromauro @notme102023 @nyaika256 At a apple store or as an actual Apple repair technician? & Well i left it to dry for hours throughout multiple days and still get it randomly sometimes & if multiple ppl are saying the same thing the problem is obviously deeper than the solutions you brought up

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  L (@_eldergoose) reported 23 minutes ago

  @Apple @Apple There are Reddit posts dated from 2020 of others with the same issues. This is an ongoing issue. Your teams don't have the knowledge to fix this. Today alone, I've spoken to 8 representatives! Not including the ones in the Apple store.

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  Affrah Tibs. (@Aishodiddd) reported 24 minutes ago

  Apple Store has been rubbing me down with ghost pepper paste.

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  james williams (@jamesandamerica) reported 28 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.

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  CoachAlija (@TurkovicAlija) reported 35 minutes ago

  My MacBook Pro just stopped working from error messages to having these options and tried it all - see image. Also ran diagnostics, spoke to Apple Support last night and took the mac to apple store today - they were not able to help! They couldnt find the storage device - thats it. I’ve used @grok thus far + @AppleSupport phone & in-store support. Who can help and get me past this problem?

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  Dami Dina (@DamiDina) reported 38 minutes ago

  Could have been an issue with Apple Pay that wasn’t accounted from Apple’s end But the customer service and lack there of from the Apple Store is likely what will continue to lead to their downfall imo I literally hate spending money on Apple but have no choice 4 at least 2yr

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  Hi (@normalfunguy) reported 41 minutes ago

  woke up and starting scrolling on my phone, then the screen suddenly went black and nothing i can try fixes it even though everyone online had all the other solutions fix it for them im so annoyed i have to go get destroyed at the apple store

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  Akhilesh (@Akhiles12103084) reported 41 minutes ago

  @techdroider You should have taken it to the apple store the moment these issues started popping up my man.

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  Hexerin Null (@HexerinNull) reported 51 minutes ago

  @yuusultultultu I would suggest taking the phone to your local Apple Store, and have them check the charging port for physical issues. It is possible the charging port is damaged or defective. If you have Apple’s protection plan, the in-store service is free too!

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  Melox (@MeloxJourney) reported 53 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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  Augie (@augierakow) reported 53 minutes ago

  Good experience at Apple Store today solving this problem (and two others). Thank you @apple.

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  Sir Mapy (@sirmapy) reported 53 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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  Purewww (@neonpinkbag) reported 54 minutes ago

  @letsblinkit , order ID - ORD56136136625 I ordered an apple earphone and the seal of the product was broken. I spoke to the customer support and they advised me to check the authenticity by going to an apple store, isn't your app running because for customer convenience?

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  Fox (@duchovny64) reported 55 minutes ago

  @QueensCrapper @realpeteyb123 You can walk the whole park from Apple Store to Columbus Circle, no one will bother you. Central Park is no problem. The ******* immigrants in midtown are!

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  Cheryl Hunter 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦🌻🦋🇺🇦 (@LadyEmmasGhost) reported 56 minutes ago

  I’m loving all the animal accounts. It’s a much needed laugh in a day where I spent most of the afternoon in the Apple Store going through Password Hell. And it wasn’t even MY problem. Long, dumb story.

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  Quiet Storm (@stormofquiet) reported 56 minutes ago

  @orthokotan He really was, he went through a lot really, firstly he hates going in the car, then he was walked through a couple of department stores and the Apple Store, all new to him, it was a useful experience but he rated it 1/10! Once he was home and the adrenaline went down he slumped!

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  Uncle Emeka || YANKEE GADGETS .ng (@yankeeplug_) reported 57 minutes ago

  This can happen to a brand new iPhone you bought from Apple Store. This is the battery flex issue