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I'm getting a lot of 500 errors when trying to upload my app to App Store Connect. Also the website is loading slowly.

Everything is working 100% for me

Noticed this too earlier today. App Store apps not downloading.

I don’t think I’ve every heard of an Apple Services outage until today.

Seems both TV and Music are affected, I wonder if it's some storage service somewhere just totally degraded. I love CloudFlare for their total transparency reports about outages. I wish every other company would follow the same standard.

Also seeing outages relating to App Store Connect, currently unable to submit builds to TestFlight.

I wonder about APNs and Apple Business Manager. I've heard from people seeing weird stuff happening on those products but I don't see it on the report here.

Sorry, it's my fault, I migrated my playlists over to TIDAL earlier today

This outage was affecting developer.apple.com and pushing iOS app versions to test flight/production. I thought I was going crazy, thanks for posting this.

Apple services are realtime keys to:

- activation: wiping an iOS/iPadOS/visionOS device, or reinstalling a mac after a full disk wipe

- apns: push notifications, used for realtime notifications for all apps on iOS/iPadOS, even things like Signal that do not use Apple's messaging infrastructure

- imessage: enough said

- boot ticket signing: required for any mac to do an OS update (it's serialized to the CPU's ECID)

any one of these going down for any significant period of time is going to cause widespread global economic disruption.

Failed to install/download newest xcode after updating Mac.

Guess this explains it.

Does Apple internally do something like COE's like Amazon?

Looking forward to the post-mortem

Curious to see the Testflight/Support apps updated just after. I’m betting they pushed an upgrade to something in their services and it was bumpy.

Did this affect notifications/app updates? I found that podcasts from my third-party app were not showing up for me when they normally do. I would assume that when I manually refresh the list, that wouldn't rely on Apple servers, but given this outage maybe there's a linkage?