Friday 13 June 2014

iTunes and App Store Return After Brief Outage

Apple's App Store, iTunes Store and Apple TV services are back up and running, following a brief outage Thursday afternoon.


These services experienced a disruption that made the App Store, iTunes Store and some Apple TV features inaccessible to some users.



An Apple spokesperson confirmed the issue was resolved as of 4 p.m. ET but did not elaborate on the source of the outage but 9to5Mac reported it was caused by "service issues."


iTunes first began experiencing issues at 1:56 p.m ET, according to downdetector.com, which tracks service disruptions of various platforms. The outage appears to have affected users in the US and Europe.

Image: DOWNDETCTOR.COM