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By Reuters | Updated: 22 March 2022 09:58 IST

Apple Services Restored After Outage: Apple Music, Apple TV+, App Store Were Down for Thousands of s

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Highlights

Outages on Monday night have affected multiple Apple online services
Different services appear to be down at different times
No cause for the outages has yet been established

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Apple said all its services, including the App Store, Apple TV and Apple Music, have resumed following an outage that started late afternoon on Monday. Nearly a dozen Apple services were down for thousands of s. The company's system status page had showed 11 outages including podcasts, music and arcade. It said Apple was investigating the issue and services may be slow or unavailable.

According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, more than 4,000 s reported issues with accessing iCloud.

s also flagged issues with "find my iPhone", maps and .

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Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including -submitted errors on its platform. The outage may be affecting a larger number of s.

The company was responding to affected s on Twitter but it was unclear what caused the outages indicated on the company's system status page.

Bloomberg News reported that Apple's corporate staff working from home and retail workers were also facing issues. The outage delayed product repairs, pickups and limited workers' access to internal websites, the report said.

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According to the report, Apple told staff that the outage stemmed from domain name system, or DNS - an address book of the internet which enables computers to match website addresses with the correct server.

In a number of incidents last year, DNS issues caused widespread outages on social media platforms including Instagram, and brought down websites of airlines and banks for several hours.

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