Apple experienced an outage for many of its services, which include Apple Music, iTunes Match, and Apple Music Radio. It has also affected services like the App Store, TestFlight, and Apple Support.
Apple Outages Resolved
Apple experienced an outage with many of its services, affecting Apple's developer site and the System Status page for developer tools. However, the tech giant has resolved the issue quickly and operations are back to normal.
Services like the App Store, TestFlight, and Apple Support Services have been fixed. In total, Apple resolved five more outages today, along with one issue. Apple's System Status page states that all services are operating normally, as mentioned in MacRumors.
The outages fixed today include Apple Pay and Wallet, which was down for almost five hours. Apple says that some users were affected, and some users in Maryland were not able to add their State ID or Driver's License to Apple Wallet.
Apple Music, Apple Music Radio, iTunes Match, and Radio were down for about an hour and 20 minutes. Some users were affected and may have experienced intermittent issues with the services, but has already been fixed.
Apple also experienced a wide outage back on March 21st, 2022. Users experienced issues with iMessage, iCloud, as well as other services. The company announced that it had at least 11 outages which affected its App Store and iCloud services.
What caused the outage in its systems was not revealed according to CNN, just as it didn't in its most recent incident. Although, just like in its previous cases, Apple acted fast and resolved the issues immediately.
In Case You Missed It
If you haven't heard, Apple is set to conduct its Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) for 2023 this June 5th. The entire conference will be available for all developers online, while some will be able to attend the in-person event at Apple Park.
WWDC 23 will unveil many advancements from Apple including its latest iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS. Developers will also have the chance to interact with Apple engineers and participate in one-on-one lash and online program sessions.
Apple's vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations, Susan Prescott expressed that WWDC is one of their favorite times of the year at Apple, given that it provides an opportunity to connect with talented developers from all around the world.
She also claimed that this year's WWDC will be the biggest and most exciting yet and that they cannot wait to see the participants online and in person. It could very well be the biggest event if the rumors surrounding its AR/VR headset are true.
According to CNET, Apple's AR/VR headset may be revealed this year at the WWDC event. The company originally planned on releasing it earlier, but there were still a few issues they had to fix before it was ready to be introduced to the world.
While there's not much known about Apple's augmented reality and virtual reality headset, people can also expect them to unveil the "xrOS" as well, which is the system that will be used for the first-generation AR/VR headset.
