An Apple outage has some of its services acting up across the iPhone, iPad, and Mac platforms.
By Richard Lawler, a senior editor following news across tech, culture, policy, and entertainment. He joined The Verge in 2021 after several years covering news at Engadget.
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Apple’s moneymaking source for apps, games, and more is having some issues on Monday. Reports of problems have spiked across social media, while Verge writers trying to access the App Store via iPhone, Mac, or iPad, are seeing mostly blank spaces instead of descriptions and screenshots.
Interestingly, staffers outside the US were able to use the App Store, despite the apparent outage. DownDetector has collected more than 3,000 reports of problems so far. MacRumors reports some users are having trouble with other services as well, including Apple Music and Apple podcasts.
Apple’s server status page doesn’t mention any known issues, and the company hasn’t yet responded to a request for comment, so it’s unclear how widespread the issues are or what might be causing them. A CNBC estimate using Apple’s own released data figured that in 2022, Apple pulled in between $70 and $85 billion via the App Store on commissions from developers alone, so even a brief outage could be costly.
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