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PSA: App Store, iTunes Store and other Apple services are currently down for some users [U: Fixed]

9to5Mac • Thu, 30 Jul 2026

Update, 11:00 p.m ET : Apple’s System Status pages say all the issues have now been resolved. The original story follows below. For the second time in a week , Apple is facing a widespread outage affecting services for end users and developers. Here are the details.

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Update, 11:00 p.m ET : Apple’s System Status pages say all the issues have now been resolved.

The original story follows below.

For the second time in a week , Apple is facing a widespread outage affecting services for end users and developers.

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