If you wanted to play some tunes on your iPhone this afternoon, but found nothing would play, it’s not just you: As of Tuesday afternoon ET, Apple Music is down.
Apple’s System Status website currently confirms Apple Music’s downtime. As of this piece, the site shows the following status for Apple Music:
Apple Music – Outage
Today, 2:26 PM – ongoing
Some users are affected
Users may be experiencing intermittent issues with this service.
All other Apple services, including the App Store, FaceTime, iMessage, and all iCloud services, are currently online.
I first saw the news thanks to 9to5Mac’s Chance Miller. Both Miller and I are personally not experiencing any issues with Apple Music. In fact, as I write this piece, I’m streaming the same Lo-Fi Breeze playlist I’ve been playing all afternoon. I’ve tested it on both my iPhone and my Mac, making sure to stream music and not to play downloaded tracks, and I’ve encountered zero issues.
The service has definitely worked for me since 2:26 p.m., so it’s not clear how widespread this Apple Music outage actually is. But if you are having trouble getting Apple Music to work this afternoon, know you aren’t alone, and that it likely isn’t something on your end. Apple will likely have a fix out as soon as possible for whatever is causing the outage; so, in the meantime, sit tight, and play some music on YouTube.
