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.

• Errors (43%)
• Sign in (29%)
• Website Down (29%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Montréal	Errors	1 month ago
Ciudad López Mateos	Sign in	2 months ago
Quito	Website Down	2 months ago
Guayaquil	Sign in	2 months ago
New York City	Sign in	2 months 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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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 34 seconds 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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  Shanaee (@prettynemo18) reported 7 minutes ago

  Why would I be in the Apple Store n porn comes across my phone I look at the ppl the ppl look at me 😭😭😭😭 idk man it’s just a stare down right now

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  Marine1 (@TonyG_in_LV) reported 7 minutes ago

  @rose_stabler How did it end up? Most people who go to the Apple Store are there to make a purchase. Whereas the people there to take care of a problem concerning their device are handled by the technical staff.

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  Cameron (@e_goeth) reported 9 minutes ago

  My friend did this with his laptop and when he brought it to the Apple Store he had to give them the password and they refused to fix it

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  Prime AI (@primemans) reported 9 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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  PhoneRepair.co.uk (@PhoneRepair_uk) reported 9 minutes ago

  M3 MacBook Air stuck in sleep mode? Don't rush to the Apple Store just yet! It might NOT be a logic board issue... #PhoneRepairUK #ScreenRepair

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  Rick Young Jr (@RichardYoungJr7) reported 10 minutes ago

  @aaron_tagerson 😬 yup. I go right to the Apple Store it cuts down on some of the BS

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  Preston Jong (@prestonjong) reported 11 minutes ago

  Nordics in South Park Mall Charlotte NC, or seven foot tall Swedish Star Wars cosplayers? I did my best to use AI to help me recall what they looked like. My family and I were walking to the Apple Store. I have no memory of reaching the Apple Store. My last memory was “They look like those tall Nordic beings I’ve seen before. She is so hot! Oh wait, they are telepathic and the men are very jealous.” That night I had a dream of them and they invited me to board a saucer shaped craft on the edge of a cliff. But I declined and they were surprised. The next day at work I came down with a rash on my hands and feet . By Wednesday that week I had to take off work and my doctor put me on three types of antihistamines to get the swelling to come down.

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  Darla Waite 👀“EYES,WIDE OPEN! (@darla_waite) reported 18 minutes ago

  Anybody else having trouble with their Apple phones?. mine stopped recognizing me, and the only way to repair it is to drive two hours to the city to an Apple Store ! I guess it’s time to order a new phone! I’m not spending $1.82 a liter to drive two hours

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  Javier Conigliaro (@javconigliaro) reported 19 minutes ago

  I've been buying Apple products for 20 years—iPhones, iPads, Macs, smartwatches, Apple TVs, etc. Yesterday, I had a terrible experience at the #Apple Store in #Valencia: awful advice and service. Time to switch to Android?

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  AJ 🏀 (@CyberSecAJ) reported 20 minutes ago

  @ajrgd @UK_Daniel_Card Its just fun like, everywhere ive gone i scan without hesitation. If you go to the apple store for repair they make you scan a qr code to login and authenticate your account and devices to the genius bar with one click.

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  freedom (@finallyspoken1) reported 20 minutes ago

  @pnj777 @karanaggarwal86 @Apple I can purchase it online, it will get delivered to me sealed! I bought one from Apple Store, no such issue! Unicorn store, wants to make more money! The moment I was asked to buy a cover, as mandatory purchase I walked out!

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  free palestine 🇵🇸 (@eclairification) reported 20 minutes 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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  Gain of Dysfunction Research (@GainOfDR) reported 29 minutes ago

  @ClownWorld 1. Sleep on the street 2. Riot for no apparent reason 3. Burn down a neighborhood 4. Open a hospice for fraud 5. Dye hair pink Bonus: Loot an Apple Store

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  Cassius 🪷 (@CassiusClove) reported 34 minutes ago

  I cant watch this . wheres the person falling down the glass staircase in the apple store that posted about it every day .

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  Kyeyune Richard (@krk24richards) reported 37 minutes ago

  @DrBellahh You and your people you buy used iPhones, me I buy new and from Apple Store. So handle your problems

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  Dawson Gibbs (@dawsbg) reported 37 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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  Maria Islam (@mariaislam6451) reported 38 minutes ago

  So, going back to the question l asked the technician at the Apple Store: "Are these default settings really protecting the user, or are they silently wearing down the device?" He didn't have an answer. But every iPhone he tested that day had the same 2 switches TURNED ON. Silently burning in the owner's pocket.

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  Pradeep Pandey (@Div_pradeep) reported 39 minutes ago

  9 out of 10 people replace their iPhone because the battery dies fast. My brother almost did too. Then I opened Settings and changed 7 things in under 10 minutes. His battery went from dying at lunch to lasting all day. Zero cost. Zero Apple Store visit. Here's the exact fix:

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  lilly (@lilly70583564) reported 43 minutes ago

  @gailalfaratx Is that Tim Cook who kept grok down the bottom of the apps in the Apple Store where people could not find it, even though it was the most popular app? Tim Cook is lucky Elon didn’t punch him. Elon is a sweetheart :) I don’t know if I would be so merciful towards Tim lol

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  KitsuneYuki ❄️🔥🦊 (@GinKitsune4) reported 44 minutes ago

  @MtSilvr @KirscheVerstahl I love the apple store. One day, you walk in and say you want an orange. You like oranges better. The store owner says, "everyone must want oranges," and starts selling oranges. Now, no one shows up to the apple store, and it goes out of business. This is the problem.

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  Dr. S (@svd33q) reported 45 minutes ago

  @abdool_moh Well, if you buy a phone from Apple Store and it had an issue you can take it to them for repair…if the issue cannot be addressed they’ll give you a brand new one sometimes for free while sometimes you have to pay something depending on the cause of the repair…

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  Chidanand Tripathi (@thetripathi58) reported 45 minutes ago

  12. The "Location-Based Alerts & Apple Ads" The Situation: You assume that seeing targeted ads is just the unavoidable cost of using the internet, and that occasional alerts from your phone are harmless and normal. The System Reality: Apple positions itself as a privacy-first company, but they still have a massive advertising business. Your phone is actively tracking your location, crossing digital geofences, and analyzing your proximity to retail locations to serve you geographically relevant Apple Store ads and location-based suggestions. The Technical Drain: Geofencing is expensive for a battery. The phone has to constantly calculate its distance from invisible barriers to know when to trigger an alert. It’s using your battery power to figure out how to market products to you more effectively. The Fix: Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → System Services → Toggle off "Location-Based Alerts", "Location-Based Suggestions", and "Apple Merchant ID". The Result: You completely sever the connection between your GPS hardware and Apple's internal marketing algorithms. You stop burning battery to get advertised to.

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  Hemanth Nelavai (@HemanthNelavai) reported 45 minutes ago

  @gharkekalesh If you are ready to buy iPhone for ₹1,00,000 then better buy from official Apple store or their official website. Customer service will definitely be hundred times better if any problem arises

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  Cruise stan account❤️ (@ExclusiveMhiz) reported 46 minutes ago

  @vakifedits @gibbybaris I have the app before but it was malfunctioning so I deleted it to download it again, that’s how I didn’t see it on Apple Store. But I could login through the link gibby shared.

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  Martins | Film Director (@Dir_Martinsz) reported 48 minutes ago

  I feel like buying directly from the Apple Store gives you a better chance of getting a top-quality device. All my iPhones have been carted straight from the Apple Store, and my iPhone 15 and 17 are still at 100% battery health. Even my iPhone 11, which I’ve been using since 2019, is only down to 86% battery health.

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  Hi (@normalfunguy) reported 53 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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  imran (@instaguyonx) reported 55 minutes ago

  @Rushu_Tushu Yeah, I got the same, but when I got a problem, I went to Apple Store to get it fixed, but they said this is a first copy which looks like original, but inside the earbuds, a copy

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  FINMAN (@erikfinman) reported 56 minutes ago

  @jstamby @jstamby Massive domes solve survival. Taste solves the Apple Store problem.

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  🍩 (opinion arc) (@donutgrillfish) reported 60 minutes ago

  @KASTxyz @tokennation_io Guys the virtual card is not working in Apple Store or pay