The official System Status page for all Apple’s services shows that three of the most important ones are having problems The iOS App Store, the Mac App Store and the iTunes Store are all affected.
Update: Full service has been restored.
Many of the people using these three stores may find that they can’t actually buy anything. “Customers may be unable to make purchases from the App Store, iTunes Store, Apple Books, or Mac App Store,” reads the note on the official System Status page.
The page also notes that “Some users are affected,” so the issue isn’t universal. How many people can’t complete their purchases is unknown at this time.
This problem has been going on for several hours now. Apple hasn’t announced what the source is, nor given an estimate on when it will be fixed.
This is the second glitch affecting an Apple app store in just a few weeks.
Ed Hardy has been writing full-time about tech for 26 years, and using it for much longer than that. His intro to Apple was a Macintosh SE/30 (which he still has), but now he uses a 13-inch iPad Pro as his primary computer.
That’s because he’s a “tablet first” type of guy. Rather than use a Macbook, he connects a keyboard case to the iPad. And instead of a desktop Mac, he connects his tablet to a 27-inch display and full-size keyboard. (So don’t try to tell him that everyone has to use a Mac to be productive.)
Before coming to Cult of Mac, Ed wrote for NotebookReview, TabletPCReview and Brighthand, as well as other sites.
