Apple mysteriously hit by major outage Apple store. (Pixabay/Released)
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Apple services suffered a major outage on Monday, when at one point at least 25 of its services went offline, disrupting both individual users and businesses.
Outages began just after 12:00 p.m. EST, according to report data by Downdetector. The outages affected Apple’s App Store, iMessage, Music, TV+, iCloud, iTunes, Radio, Podcasts, Maps, among other Apple Services, according to the company’s system status page.
Before 2 p.m. EST, Apple claimed it has resolved outages for iMessage, iOS Device Activation, iCloud Web Apps, and Game Center.
Numerous Twitter users lambasted Apple for its system status page initially showing no outages while many of its most popular services were indeed inaccessible.
Pretty much all Apple services are currently down.
Apple System Status: ✅✅✅ pic.twitter.com/0MDv03NQCp— José Adorno (@joseadorno) March 21, 2022
Meanwhile, Apple’s Twitter pages had no posts acknowledging the major outage of its services.
One user who claimed to be inside an Apple store at the time of the outage shared a picture showing employees writing on paper while on their cell phones during the outage.
“Apple store systems are down and they’re literally doing everything on paper lol,” the user said.
Apple store systems are down and they’re literally doing everything on paper lol pic.twitter.com/tdNpVPIepw
— Michael Billig (@michael_billig) March 21, 2022
