Apple Outage Hit App Store, Apple TV, Music, Arcade, Podcasts, And More
Only hours after a brief outage took out multiple Meta services and platforms (not to be confused withthe outage from a couple of weeks ago), Apple reported its own issues involving major aspects of its ecosystem, particularly the App Store. Late in the day on June 23, 2025, many Apple users received a “Cannot Connect” message upon trying to open the App Store, as well as the message, “Something went wrong. Please try again.” Unlike Meta, which has a status page for only some business products, Apple transparently shows the status for all of its services on its officialApple Supportwebsite.
According to that website, at the time of the outage, Apple’s App Store, Apple Arcade, Apple TV+, Apple Music, Apple Books, Audiobooks, Apple Sports, the Mac App Store, and Apple Podcasts were inaccessible, while the Apple School Manager tool, Apple Business Manager, and Apple Business Essentials were all listed as experiencing an “issue.” At the time of writing, Apple has not released a statement on what caused the issue.
The outage hit many of Apple’s major consumer services
While the outages hit multiple Apple products, some remained fully functional during the unexpected event — for example, the App Store accessible via the Vision Pro headset was still listed as operational, as was iCloud Mail, Apple Pay, the Apple Online Store, HomeKit, iWork, and the iTunes Store. Luckily, those services remained functional the entire time, avoiding disruptions to things like mobile payments and using the Apple Card.
