The outage could affect a large number of users.
Apple Inc’s music service is experiencing problems, the iPhone maker said on its status page late Monday, while users reported issues with several of the company’s other services.
Apple Inc’s music service is experiencing problems, the iPhone maker said on its status page late Monday, while users complained of issues with several other company services.
Services, including support services and the Apple Store, were down by the thousands, according to outage tracking website DownDetector.com. More than 3,300 users reported problems with streaming Apple Music at the peak of the outage, while nearly 2,200 reported problems with the App Store in the United States.
Apple’s status page indicated that Apple Music, Apple Music Radio and iTunes Match were experiencing ongoing “outages”. Additionally, users were reportedly experiencing issues with Apple News, the status page showed.
Apple did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment about the cause of the outage or whether other services were affected as indicated by the downdetector.
DownDetector tracks outages on its platform by combining status reports from multiple sources, including user-submitted errors. The outage could affect a large number of users.
In related news, Apple recently fixed two new zero-day security vulnerabilities that were exploited in attacks to compromise iPhones, Macs, and iPads in its latest software update.
According to BleepingComputer, the two zero-day security vulnerabilities were addressed in iOS 16.4.1, iPadOS 16.4.1, macOS Ventura 13.3.1, and Safari 16.4.1 with improved input validation and memory management.
The first security flaw is an IOSurfaceAccelerator that can lead to data corruption, crashes, or code execution.
The report states that the successful exploit enables attackers to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges on targeted devices using a maliciously crafted app.
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