The App Store was down, along with Apple TV, Apple Podcasts, and Apple Music

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Apple's online services were hit with an outage that cut many of us off from the App Store, Apple TV, and Apple Music on Wednesday night. The system status page for Apple's online service noted an outage beginning at 6:31PM ET affecting those services, as well as Arcade, Audiobooks, Books, Podcasts, Fitness Plus, and its new Apple Sports app.

Now, the status page lists them all as outage resolved" as of 7:35PM ET, and they seem to be working again. The @AppleSupport account on X did not list a reason for the issues but directed users to check the status page for more information.

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On Downdetector, it looks like the first reports of issues started coming in just after 6PM ET. The Verge has contacted...

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