Yep, Apple Music and Apple TV Are Down
If you picked up your iPhone to round out your Apple Music Replay for the year, or turned on your TV to watch a show like Pluribus, you might have noticed something odd: Neither service is working. It's not just you: Apple Music, Apple TV, and Game Center are currently down.
That's directly from Apple's "System Status" website, which tracks all of Apple's web-based services and identifies which ones may be experiencing problems. While most of Apple's services, like the App Store, Find My, and iMessage, are all "Available," four of these services are experiencing an outage: Apple Music, Apple TV, Apple TV Channels, and Game Center.
If you click on each, you can see the service's full status report:
Apple Music - Outage
Today, 2:53 PM - ongoing
Some users are affected
Users may be experiencing intermittent issues with this service.
Apple TV Channels - Outage
Today, 2:53 PM - ongoing
Some users are affected
Users may be experiencing intermittent issues with this service.
Apple TV - Outage
Today, 2:53 PM - ongoing
Some users are affected
Users may be experiencing intermittent issues with this service.
Game Center - 1 Outage, 1 Resolved Issue
Outage: Today, 2:53 PM - ongoing
Some users are affected
Users may be experiencing a problem with this service.
Resolved Issue: Today, 8:43 AM - 9:14 AM
Some users were affected
Users may have experienced a problem with this service.
It's not clear what is causing the outages, though they all went down at 2:53 p.m.. (Apple doesn't specify, but I imagine that's ET.) This isn't the first time this has happened, of course. In fact, Apple Music was down earlier this year, though it was actually still working for me when Apple said the outage was active.
That appears to be the situation today, as well. Each report says "some users are affected," not all. As it happens, Apple Music is working on my Mac, and I'm able to stream the free pilot episode of Pluribus without issue.
Apple will likely get these services back up and running for affected users. In the meantime, if your Apple Music or Apple TV won't cooperate, this is likely the cause.