Apple says all services resume after outage

Update:  Apple has said all its services, including the popular App Store, have resumed following an outage that started late afternoon on Thursday.  Apple’s US web page showed all applications had resumed as of 11:55 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (0355 GMT).

“There are no reported issues at this time,” the company said a few minutes later on its web page. The iPhone maker said services related to iCloud and the Photos application have also resumed.

Apple has said some of its services which suffered an outage, including its App Store, resumed services following a more than two-hour outage on Thursday.

However, some other services related to iCloud and the iPhone maker’s Photos application continued to remain unavailable for some users.

The issues appear to have started just before 4 p.m. U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (2000 GMT), according to a timeline provided on Apple’s U.S. support page. The App Store functionality was restored at about 6:30 p.m. EDT.

Some users took to Twitter talking about the issue.

https://twitter.com/Chief_Mozer/status/738486566172004352

Apple was not available to provide additional information or comment on the outage, outside regular business hours.

“We are investigating and will update the status as more information becomes available,” the company said on the website.

Reuters