Mac App Store and Apple Books Experiencing Outage [Update: Fixed]

The Mac App Store and the Apple Books are both having issues at this time, according to Apple's System Status page. There are no specific details on what the outage entails, as Apple only says that some users are experiencing a problem with the services.

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Apple says that the outages started at 12:15 p.m. Eastern Time. Only some users are affected, so not all users will see problems with the ‌Mac App Store‌ or Apple Books.

Update: Apple says that the outage was fixed as of 2:40 p.m. Eastern Time.

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Top Rated Comments

jblank Avatar
25 weeks ago
Well at least the Apple Books outage won't impact anyone.

;)
Score: 16 Votes (Like | Disagree)
sw1tcher Avatar
25 weeks ago

I challenge you to provide actual fact based proof that Apple has had an outage every month from January 2023-August 2024, or admit your statement is something you dreamed up.
It's not every month, but it is pretty often as I noted back in May ('https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/apple-to-power-ai-features-with-m2-ultra-servers.2425894/?post=33121802#post-33121802'). And those are just the ones MR bothered to post about.

So we've had an outage every month since April 2024 outage
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/04/03/apple-services-widespread-outage/

May 2024 outage:
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/05/16/imessage-down-for-some/

June 2024 outage:
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/06/05/weather-app-issues-june/

July 2024 outage:
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/07/29/apple-fixes-icloud-private-relay/

August 2024 outage (today's):
https://www.macrumors.com/2024/08/27/mac-app-store-outage-august/

The only month in 2024 that saw no outage was for March. Will we see an outage in September?
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Light_of_Consciousness Avatar
25 weeks ago
Just these 2 services? I feel like Messages and Mail have been glitchy as hell since I updated to 17.6.1.
Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Rockanrolero Avatar
25 weeks ago
Oh no… not Apple Books…



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Score: 3 Votes (Like | Disagree)
coolfactor Avatar
25 weeks ago

Well at least the Apple Books outage won't impact anyone.

;)
I was just thinking to myself: Apple Books is still a thing?
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)
coolfactor Avatar
25 weeks ago

A billion-dollar company that now has an outage every month. Something incredible.
A billion-dollar company that adds more to their arsenal every year. Have you seen their Status page? I think their track record is pretty incredible!

https://www.apple.com/ca/support/systemstatus/
Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)