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 (50%)
• Website Down (33%)
• Sign in (17%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Nantes	Website Down	20 days ago
Capitólio	Errors	21 days ago
Adelaide	Errors	26 days ago
Ahmedabad	Sign in	28 days ago
Ahmedabad	Website Down	28 days ago
Montréal	Errors	3 months 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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  Great Draper’s Ghost (@wunderdog13) reported 6 minutes ago

  @marlene4719 I don’t know- how much **** got broken by the guys? Normally when 400 bkack guys get together, someone gets shot or an Apple Store gets raided. Tell me I’m wrong…..

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  I AM WHAT I AM (@bravta2bravta) reported 7 minutes ago

  My brand new iPhone 17 pro max; less than a year old is getting hot unnecessarily! What should I do? @Apple what’s going on with your product? Why’s your latest phone in your company acting weird and not working effectively? Why’s it getting hot when it’s a brand new phone? Why should it even have any cause to have any problem when I actually bought it outright from your Apple Store? Why? I should’ve just gone for the Google Pixel 10 pro max that I wanted to buy initially. This is bull ****! 💩

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  Easton Coleford | AI (@ecoleai) reported 7 minutes ago

  MARCUS CHEN STACKED 30 MAC MINIS AND BUILT AN AI SERVER FARM. A SINGLE $599 MAC MINI CAN REPLACE YOUR $200/MONTH CLAUDE CODE ACCOUNT, COSTING JUST $3 IN ENERGY. Two months ago, a developer posted his Claude Code bill on Reddit: $170 in just 10 days. Someone replied: “I bought a Mac Mini M4. I haven’t paid Anthropic anything since then.” That same week, Mac Minis vanished from Apple Store shelves. The M4 chip delivers 120 GB/s of memory bandwidth and a unified memory architecture. The CPU and GPU share the same memory pool, so the model loads just once and both access the same data. In practice, a $599 Mac Mini can run AI better than many $1,500 Windows PCs equipped with dedicated GPUs. Since January 2026, Ollama has started supporting Anthropic’s Messages API format. With just one environment variable, Claude Code connects directly to your local Mac Mini. The same interface. Zero API cost. $0 per request. A developer who uses AI intensively can spend $459 a month across Claude Code Max, ChatGPT Pro, Gemini, Cursor, and Copilot. That adds up to $5,508 a year. The Mac Mini investment pays for itself in about three months. After that, the operating cost is around $3 in electricity. Uber rolled out Claude Code to 5,000 engineers and would have burned through a significant chunk of its $3.4 billion AI budget for 2026 in just four months. Whoever controls the infrastructure today could be years ahead of everyone else tomorrow.

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  kiwi. 📍chi | PPi (@KiuiAirica) reported 9 minutes ago

  my fav coffee shop on Broadway is down the street from the freaky Apple Store theater and I kinda wanna go in there just to cringe

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  Alex Ventures (@alex23ventures) reported 10 minutes ago

  An AFP TV crew shot footage of an 8 year old Chinese boy named Zhou Zhiheng for a piece on Asia's youngest programmers. Round green frames. Red shirt. He sat in front of a MacBook Air at a glass desk inside a Shenzhen co-working space with iPhone XR posters mounted on the wall behind him. The voiceover said he had started out building games. The subtitle said his coding tutorial channel pulled 60,000 followers. The camera pushed in tight on his fingers across the keys. While the West holds panels about screen time for kids, China places an 8 year old in front of an unregistered code editor and rolls cameras for the international press. He was meant to be the friendly face of Asian tech literacy. He just left the sidebar open. Pause at 1:34. Skip past the C++ on the screen. Skip past the if statement the AFP voiceover was reading. Look at the left panel of the editor. The folder is labeled aspirin. The open file is jizhe.cpp. The folder tree below: 1-7, 1-7b, 10-1, 10-1.2, 10-2, 10-4, 10-6, 10-8, 11-2. ColdMath. $94,318 profit. 5,612 entries. Joined September 2025. Bio: Edge Compounds. Jizhe is the mandarin word for journalist. The file the AFP crew was rolling on was named after them. The boy had the open scanf reading a score variable. He had not typed it that morning. He had given the file its name the day the AFP request came through. The numbered folders were not chapters of a coding course. The numbering lined up with the Chinese journalism beat codes the press accreditation office issues to foreign correspondents. 1-7 is the technology beat. 10-1 is consumer electronics. 10-2 is mobile devices. 11-2 is venture capital. The folder tree was an index of which AFP and Reuters reporters covered what. The boy was not the developer. The boy was the camera trap. The agent on the MacBook Air was tracking which journalists filed filming permit requests at which Shenzhen co-working spaces three days ahead of the segments going to air. Every permit request was a position on the company being filmed. The agent traded the gap between shoot and broadcast. The crew rolled for forty minutes. The agent placed eleven positions during the shoot. Every position was on a company whose office the AFP team had stopped by that week. The comments turned into a detective board. One viewer dropped the AFP clip to 0.25x. Another translated jizhe out of the filename. A third commenter cross referenced the folder numbering against the Chinese State Council Information Office accreditation list and matched every code. Six months ago a 14 year old in Shenzhen pushed an AI agent to GitHub. Judges said no real world application. 3,100 forks later. The boy's father had been one of them. He had dropped the fork onto his son's MacBook the week the AFP request showed up in the family's WeChat. The 60,000 follower coding channel was not a coding channel. It was a feed tracking which co-working spaces were hosting which crews. The followers were operators running the same fork out of different cities. The iPhone XR posters behind him were not Apple Store decor. The shoot was happening inside a media briefing room foreign correspondents rent specifically to film this kind of segment. The agent already knew the room. The room was on the list. The AFP segment sits at 2.1 million views. The freeze frame of the folder tree cleared 4.6 million on the repost. The wallet is still compounding. The agent is still reading press accreditation requests. The unregistered editor is still open. The jizhe.cpp file is still on screen. They filmed him to prove a child could code. The child was the lens. The agent was running the shoot.

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  Dosa (@__chiefdosa) reported 11 minutes ago

  @SlattReturns I WAS JUST IN THE APPLE STORE YESTERDAY TO FIX MY PHONE

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  Giaco (@On_edge99) reported 12 minutes ago

  @AnxiousHolly Had a similar issue a few days ago. Went to the Apple Store. They removed it for me. 👍

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  Campbell (@boomers_ass) reported 14 minutes ago

  The Apple Store is a joke. Went in last week to replace my iPhone battery. They had to order the part. Waited ~10 days, then got told: “Come in within 2 days or we might give the battery to someone else.” Made an appointment for today. Waited, then the rep says they can’t do the repair because “the system we use to track repairs is down.” Me: “You have the part. You have my phone. But you can’t install it because the computer is down?” Poor guy — not his fault. But the geniuses running the Apple Store aren’t quite as smart as they like to pretend. This is NOT the future.

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  Angela Rodriguez (@Angel1994_) reported 16 minutes ago

  a down payment. I have never leased anything from T-Mobile or Apple—the iPhone was purchased alright at the Apple Store—never had the screen saver displayed on the illustrated iPhone 13.

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  Brian W (@BrianW196) reported 20 minutes ago

  @BUNN I got a cup of coffee tonight at a Big Apple Store which had two BUNN Touch Screen Coffee Machines. One would think a company as big as @BUNN that is focused on coffee would know how to spell ColOmbian coffee (Not ColUmbian). Hopefully it is something you can fix remotely

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  jabbermay (@jabbermay) reported 22 minutes ago

  @keepindeepspace 2024 & 2025 VIP as well and I'll be sending a similar message tomorrow. I've already begun the refund process through Google Play Store and they said they're collecting data on developer issues like this, so I encourage you to reach out to them (or Apple Store) as well.

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  billie (@morksenposting) reported 24 minutes ago

  @etemologypika thank you i’m trying to fix it I have acetabulofemoral joint pain from standing like gay little monkey in apple store without realizing it

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  ☀️Sunny Day⁷☀️ ❤️COMMS OPEN❤️ (@IntotheFrisson) reported 27 minutes ago

  @LucianSkye I read the rice trick doesn’t work well because there will still be debris 😭 so it might make it worse…. The problem with the Apple Store is that it’s 5 years out of warranty- so I’m not sure how much they can actually do past telling me to buy a new computer :(

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  sivat.eth (@0xSiva) reported 28 minutes ago

  @poonamjourno @AppleSupport @Apple I'll recommend visiting the nearest Official Apple Store (if available in your city) If not, reach out to their international customer support from Apple official support iOS app Apple official customer care is top notch and it's very likely, all your issues will be resolved

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  Eve Fain, BSN MPH, EXPERT: PATIENT EDUCATION (@espacetimeNOT) reported 31 minutes ago

  @nikitabier @Austen JUST KNOW I UNDERSTAND server side concepts. I helped build telephone/wireless/internet side of life. Yes, I am THAT OLD.... if concepts are confusing I will put in correct order. hang in there. Apple Store very helpful to me today. X app on iPad made error

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  𝑩𝒍𝒖 🪷🍊wof & winter sun era 🍵 (@blue_dalilah) reported 35 minutes ago

  @delulucentre You don’t have an apple device, do you? With Apple Store changing country is easy, the problem is with verifying your “Chinese identity”. If I manage somehow I’ll let you know, maybe I can share it with you

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  Memories collection (@gunpeiyokoifan) reported 38 minutes ago

  But FRIEND!!! what if your pocket machine acted funny, but I became technician and figured out how to fix it? like if I worked at Apple Store and you visited America again 🥹

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  Savvy (@TechnovityTech) reported 39 minutes ago

  @techactually I can return it back to Amazon tho. But I remember it was locked down in Apple Store so I don't get to experience 🫠

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  Swanand (@_swanand) reported 40 minutes ago

  @chinmay185 Apple Store payments. But now they support Indian credit cards. Problem solved.

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  白知白（科技与生活） (@qiqi_caijeff) reported 43 minutes ago

  @ShishirShelke1 The Apple Store in Taiwan looking like a giant MacBook from above is exactly the kind of detail-first design Apple is known for. Most companies would slap a logo on a box. Apple treats every retail touchpoint as a product design problem. This level of commitment to the brand experience is why Apple's retail stores generate more revenue per square foot than any other retailer in the world.

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  Ms. Humble Diva (@humble_diva81) reported 48 minutes ago

  @jolissaxo_ I cried bc after my dad died all I had were his voicemails. Went to the apple store bc I had an issue with my phone , the worker reset my phone without asking me. The way I bawled in that store! I would've kept my phone broken to never lose those. This one had me in my feelings!

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  L3M (@angu_l3m) reported 49 minutes ago

  me leaving the Apple Store with airpods down my throat

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  LibbyAnn C (@MarineLibby) reported 50 minutes ago

  I had to get some more alerts before I could reply to you since I can only use the bottom half of my touchscreen. Problems I never thought of in the year 2005! I do have to give a shout out to the Apple Store. They helped me when I was totally locked out of my account even though I bought my phone from a third-party and walked in with a cracked screen I honestly thought they were gonna be the worst and turned me away and the guy spent like an hour and a half with me

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  Lucas (@Lucas62949380) reported 51 minutes ago

  Download your session application on apple store or play store so we have more secret and secure chat there on any account hack you’re down for bro My Session Id 05fe0ad0eaef801c18da5485f2148265d7530ab81b176ffa87fb1995dcd3c24074

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  Rafael Torres ᯅ (@mundoxrbrasil) reported 52 minutes ago

  @JonOrcera I’d recommend taking it to an Apple Store. Remote support usually isn’t very helpful with this kind of issue. This comes up fairly often on Reddit. Mine had wear on both the battery side and the Vision Pro connector, and Apple ended up replacing the cable. Now I’m just waiting for my next trip so I can use AppleCare for the front glass crack on my Vision Pro, even though it’s never been dropped. 🥹

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  Tim Jarrell of PWUnlimited (@TimmyBuddy) reported 53 minutes ago

  @LoNe_eXiLe @Damion69122310 If your issue is being locked in to only 1 store then why are people not complaining about mobile gaming and being locked in to either the Apple Store or Google Play only? No one complains about that.

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  STAN ❄️ (@stan_but_stanny) reported 58 minutes ago

  @luxuria424 Scammed from the official Apple Store? I don’t think so. And just because your experience is different doesn’t mean that others is the same as yours. Many players have problems with Wuthering waves on high end devices.

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  Orian Holliday (@AvailableLite9) reported 58 minutes ago

  @MAGA_X_Times @udreams30 Yep. THAT’S the scam I expected from these ‘gift cards’. No accountability. No recourse. Just a chorus of “not our responsibility” and the theft of your cash. The scam is that thieves take many cards from the store’s rack to their ‘shop’… and carefully open them to steal the alphanumeric code inside. Then, they carefully put the ‘package’ back together, replace them on the store’s display rack and, wait for someone to load money on the card. Then they immediately load that balance into THEIR ‘account’ using the stolen code. Started with Apple Store cards then spread to all of them. There is NO SECURITY on these things. Whoever uses the code first… gets the cash. Merchants couldn’t care less. They get the money no matter what. So, there is ZERO motivation for them to fix the problem as addressing it would necessarily require them to ADMIT there IS a problem. So… the whole gift card thing is a scam from every angle. Unless you can purchase the card DIRECTLY at the actual merchant and verify the balance before leaving the store, your ‘gift’ will likely disappear before the recipient can use it. Even with these precautions, the cards cannot be left where just anyone can access them. They should be dispensed by a managerial type. It’s the only way.

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  Kool-Aid McZynstry (@KAZynstry) reported 58 minutes ago

  KAMs Thursday and it’s not even 2 pm: 5 hours working in the same air quality Chinese kids make Nike shoes in AT&T store to fix phone: $425 for new phone Apple Store: 90 minute wait to be told $400 repair Currently eating chick fil a to suppress my crashout

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  Olivia Chowdhury (@Oliviacoder1) reported 59 minutes ago

  A guy walked into an Apple Store to buy a MacBook Air. He walked out having spent $2,100 on a $999 laptop. He thought he made smart choices the whole time. His brother in law, who worked Apple retail for 9 years, watched the receipt and just shook his head. In the parking lot he said: "You didn't buy a laptop today. You bought seven upsells wrapped around a laptop. The storage tier. The AppleCare pitch. The trade in number. The 'while you're here' accessories. None of it is random. Every rep is trained to hit those seven moments in that order." He broke down 9 tricks Apple retail uses and the counter move for each one. Two months later the brother bought his own MacBook using the playbook. Same store. Same model. $760 less. Here's everything he said.