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
Nantes	Website Down	11 days ago
Capitólio	Errors	11 days ago
Adelaide	Errors	16 days ago
Ahmedabad	Sign in	18 days ago
Ahmedabad	Website Down	19 days ago
Montréal	Errors	2 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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  Dr. Buddy Rydell (@DrBuddyR) reported 7 minutes ago

  @bowscan Nope. What is his name, if this isn’t a scam? He launched this project on Robinhood and tricked buyers into investing in a product, and then walked away from it less than 24 hours later. Not, hey this is a memecoin, but a real project. Either way I’m going to report ******** out of it. He used Apple Store to create this X account, so it will be easy to track him down.

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  Omnicris (@Omnicris) reported 9 minutes ago

  Yeah, it could, but it won't. People steal things that are locked down all the time. I mean, even the Apple Store display models get stolen all the time, and those have a special version of iOS that runs on them, so you can't do anything with them anyway; they're paperweights. My concern is the ability for Apple, or any tech company for that matter, to be able to remotely disable a device, whether you are a criminal or not.

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  Rafael Torres ᯅ (@mundoxrbrasil) reported 9 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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  DARK DECEPTION (@DarkDeceptionDD) reported 11 minutes ago

  Super Dark Deception CH2's release has been delayed on Switch, PS4, and PS5 due to patch approval issues. PS4 & PS5 are still expected to launch this weekend. Switch is dependent on Nintendo's response time. Here are the platforms where CH2 is currently available: Steam, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Google Play, Apple Store. Epic Games Store is under review and set to launch early next week.

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  Yada Yada Yada Farm (@bcglass2012) reported 14 minutes ago

  @deesnider Goto your local apple store and they ll fix it, a lot these responses are just people wanting to talk. Good luck.

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  maximum (@maximumdegen) reported 15 minutes ago

  YES! Mac Mini at $599 is killing AI subscriptions Developers are massively ditching Claude Code, ChatGPT Pro, and Cursor — switching to local models running on Mac Mini M4. One Reddit post ("spent $170 in 10 days on Claude Code") triggered a wave: someone replied "bought a Mac Mini — haven't paid Anthropic since", and that same week the mini-computers disappeared from Apple Store shelves. Why it works:The M4 chip with unified memory (120 GB/s) runs large models more efficiently than a $1,500 Windows PC with a dedicated GPU. Since January 2026, Ollama supports the Anthropic API format — Claude Code connects to a local server with a single environment variable. Cost per request: $0. The math is simple:A heavy developer spends ~$459/month on AI subscriptions = $5,500+ per year. The Mac Mini pays for itself in under 3 months, after that — $3 a month in electricity. Marcus Chen took it furthest — he built a rack of 30 Mac Minis as his personal AI farm. Those who own the infrastructure today will have years of advantage tomorrow.

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  Qianjun Befanis (@QianjunBefanis) reported 16 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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  el. #BRINGBACKVALKO (@ellinightss) reported 18 minutes ago

  @purple_starzz14 like i said, the ratings does not influence on the game shutting down. the game shuts down either: a) the company pulls out the game itself or b) apple store pulls the app out because the app company did not comply to the t&cs met during the agreement

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  Asher Crowe 🪺 (@ashercrw) reported 21 minutes ago

  A 31-YEAR-OLD IN BELGRADE IS PULLING $8,400 A MONTH OFF FIVE MAC MINIS RUNNING IN A TOWER ON HIS DESK. The whole stack costs $19 a month in electricity to operate. The hardware paid for itself in week one. The setup is so quiet his girlfriend didn't notice when he turned it on. His name is Stefan. This is the cleanest example of the new solo operator economy I've seen all year and the numbers deserve a full breakdown. The hardware is five M4 Mac Minis stacked in a tower on his desk. Each one has a number written on it in marker, 1 through 5, so he knows which node dropped when one goes silent. A pink dumbbell sits on the shelf above them. A can of compressed air on the windowsill. The whole thing hums quieter than the mini fridge in the corner. The five machines are clustered with EXO into one virtual machine. EXO is the open-source framework that lets you string together consumer hardware into a distributed inference rig without needing a degree in systems engineering. The setup runs Llama 70B locally on MLX, Apple's machine learning framework optimized for unified memory. Nothing he runs ever touches a cloud server. No API costs. No rate limits. No latency tax. The model runs on his desk and answers in milliseconds. Here's the workflow he built around it. A client uploads a raw manuscript. Anywhere from 60,000 to 120,000 words. Indie author novels, self-help books, faceless YouTube channel scripts, the kind of long-form content that needs narration but doesn't have a studio budget. The Llama 70B model does the reading work first. It ingests the raw text, cleans the formatting, splits the chapters automatically, and tags every line of dialogue with the emotional tone it should be read in. Excited. Whispered. Angry. Resigned. Then it writes the chapter descriptions that faceless YouTube channels paste directly under their uploads. All of it done locally. All of it done in one pass. Then an open voice model on the same stack takes over and narrates the entire book in a single locked voice. The voice never gets tired, never asks for a re-record, never raises its day rate, never catches a cold the day before a session. The same voice across every chapter, every book, every client. Consistency that human narrators physically cannot match. A local audio mastering model handles the final polish. Compression, leveling, breath cleanup, room tone matching. The output is studio-quality audio ready for upload. The stack renders 28 hours of clean narration per month while he sleeps. He wakes up, exports the files, sends them to clients, invoices them, and goes back to whatever he wants to do with his day. Now the part that breaks people. The power draw across all five machines running at full load is 180 watts. He has a KUMAN meter plugged into the wall to track it. A single gaming PC idles higher than that. The entire AI studio he built consumes less electricity than a hair dryer on low. At Serbian residential rates that works out to roughly $19 a month in operating cost. Eight thousand four hundred dollars in, nineteen dollars out. A 442x margin on power alone before you account for the fact that the hardware paid for itself the first week he turned it on. His girlfriend asked why the power bill didn't move after he built it. He told her it can't, the machines barely draw anything. She asked what the whole thing cost to set up. He told her. She asked why he didn't build ten. That's the right question. A traditional audiobook studio has a narrator on a day rate, a booth, an engineer, and a monthly power bill that buries solo operators. The cheapest professional narrator in the US charges around $200 per finished hour. The cheapest decent one runs closer to $400. A 10-hour audiobook costs an indie author at least $2,000 in narration alone, plus mastering, plus mixing, plus the three week turnaround time while the narrator fits the project into their schedule. Stefan delivers the same product for a fraction of the cost, in 48 hours, with consistent quality across every chapter, and his only constraint is how fast he can find clients. The economics are completely deranged compared to traditional service businesses. He doesn't pay rent on a studio. He doesn't pay a narrator. He doesn't pay for cloud compute. His marginal cost per audiobook is approximately the electricity it takes to run the cluster for the duration of the render, which is measured in pennies. A few realizations worth sitting with. The frontier of AI economics is no longer in San Francisco. It's in apartments in Belgrade, Lagos, Manila, and Tbilisi, where operators with low overhead and high technical curiosity are quietly running businesses that look impossible from the outside. The geographic distribution of who actually makes money from AI is going to look nothing like the geographic distribution of who funded the labs. Local inference is the quiet revolution nobody on this app is talking about loudly enough. Every workflow that currently runs on OpenAI or Anthropic APIs has a cousin that runs on a Mac cluster for the price of an electrical outlet. The companies paying $30k a month in cloud bills are going to wake up in 18 months and find their margins eaten by operators paying $19. The audiobook market is just the beginning. Every service business with high human labor costs and predictable output requirements is about to get the same treatment. Voiceover work, transcription, translation, copywriting, image editing, video editing, customer support, technical writing. Each one of these has a local-inference version waiting to be built by someone with a stack of Mac Minis and an EXO config file. Stefan didn't invent anything. He just connected the right pieces. The pieces have been sitting on GitHub for over a year. The Mac Minis have been on shelves at every Apple Store. EXO is free. The voice models are open. The orchestration is a weekend project. The only barrier was knowing it was possible. Now you know.

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  Tim Jarrell of PWUnlimited (@TimmyBuddy) reported 22 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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  Ling Qing Meng (@LingqingM) reported 22 minutes ago

  Just got an official Apple Store Keyboard with the fingerprint reader. The thing with Macbooks is that the moment you lose AppleCare for them and the keyboard breaks, there is ZERO way to fix said keyboard. (Hidden secret of Macbook keyboard explaining why in comments) So when at home use your peripherals you extend the life of your on-laptop keyboard when you obviously have to use it when traveling.

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  kanak soni (@kanakvsoni) reported 24 minutes ago

  I first visited the Apple Store in Jaipur when the problem was intermittent. The technicians couldn't reproduce the issue, so no defect was found at that time. Now that the issue has become frequent, I revisited the store and was informed that the display needs replacement. (5/8)

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  Dr. Buddy Rydell (@DrBuddyR) reported 29 minutes ago

  @Trader0zan @bowscan Report to Robinhood so they can handle the SEC and FBI side of things. They ****** up when they had us invest into an actual product, not a memecoin and then walked away away from it 24 hours later, after dumping on us from side wallets. Dumbass used the Apple Store to signup for X so tracking won’t be a problem.

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  toned madonna (@apologetits) reported 31 minutes ago

  U go to the Apple Store for one simple Genius Bar fix and I swear to god they do all this complex face scanning and data scraping **** to match you with their most fuckable Genius

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  Alex Ventures (@alex23ventures) reported 31 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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  Dsk (@dsk_8587) reported 32 minutes ago

  @ZEE5India Hey incompetent fellows @ZEE5India Here is a bug for your team to fix I login with my number on your ios app. When I subscribe it takes me to Apple Store. Post that I don’t see the plan in zee5 And when I logout and login with Apple id, I find the subscription. Pathetic

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  Olivia Chowdhury (@Oliviacoder1) reported 32 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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  L (@benghazi_ebooks) reported 33 minutes ago

  Can’t find it because the search function is broken but I am thinking about the email exchange in the Epstein files involving Barak and Koren discussing headphones being returned at a specific Apple store location in NYC. Which was obviously coded talk about moving something

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  T ✿ (@tbeenbrazyyy) reported 35 minutes ago

  locked myself out my phone and have to go to Apple Store tomorrow 2 fix it. so i can't see any of my tele messages :( ill get back to everyone tomorrow

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  Memories collection (@gunpeiyokoifan) reported 36 minutes ago

  Also "having to forcefully stop yourself from (over)sharing on a special interest" I'm so screwed, I once seen a coworker ask why his iPhone wasn't working and I really wanted to fix it, but that would seem creepy because I'm NOT at an Apple Store yet

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  Ashok Shetty (@savidhyashok) reported 42 minutes ago

  @poonamjourno @AppleSupport @Apple In the cost they will quote you may get a Good Brand Tab any day. I had approached the Apple store with Macbook issue of key pad numerical numbers key not working And they quoted Rs 30,000/-

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  masYNYa (@KijAkubovs86334) reported 42 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.

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  GoymResistanceAlliance (@GoymResistance) reported 46 minutes ago

  @durov Pavel....Apple store and Google App keeps shadow banning many good channels on Telegram. Any chance to fix that?

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  Alida Antonia (@ArtByAlida) reported 46 minutes ago

  @ATT Your tech support told me that I should go to the Apple Store because he could not fix my issue. Apple had full access to see my settings. It’s an @ATT problem. It’s not an Apple issue.

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  tom 🎸 (@uncreativetom) reported 46 minutes ago

  @Andrewislington I had to go to the Apple Store and they just plugged it into another Mac to restore it. I could have done it myself but I only own one, and no friends with Macs were nearby at the time hahaha. The main issue was that I hadn't backed anything up so lost loads of files oops

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  𝕬𝖈𝖊_𝕱𝖗𝖎𝖏𝖔̈𝖑𝖊 🇺🇸 (@Ace_Frijole3) reported 51 minutes ago

  I feel sorry for @Macys & the @Apple store — they’re going to loot the stores, who you ask, Mistah Mayor? Why, your low IQ Arabs, Dominicans & “Those People” — they’re going to burn the City down & loot everything in sight

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  Swanand (@_swanand) reported 52 minutes ago

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

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  abhi | craftpad (@letcontactabhi) reported 58 minutes ago

  this is my plan for this month: 1. first, i’ll focus on nomi and try to build and ship the app on the apple store. 2. after that, i’ll start working on sortai. i want to make it a useful tool for founders to solve marketing problems, especially around ugc content and app marketing. 3. the third project could be a big b2b technical saas project. what’s your plan for this month? feel free to drop it below. i’d love to hear what you’re building. let’s go 🔥

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  Moral Priest 🌱Ⓥ ₿ (@MoralPriest) reported 58 minutes ago

  @BeSovereign_1 @0xEthan No. iOS is inherently a problem as it require someone to KYC themself to publish on Apple store. You could compile a version yourself and side load it in theory.

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  ᴛᴀʏʟᴏʀ ꩜ (@silvertongues28) reported 60 minutes ago

  A week after getting my 17 I went into AT&T with this issue and he said “Yeah it’s happening a lot. We’re not sure what to do. You can try going to Apple” and then the Apple Store near me requires an appointment and it said it could be up to $80 to see someone so I said nvm🙃