iTunes status: streaming issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of iTunes reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by iTunes users through our website.

• Errors (77%)
• Playback Issues (13%)
• Sign in (10%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent iTunes outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Houston	Errors	2 days ago
Tappahannock	Errors	16 days ago
Sydney	Errors	21 days ago
Blackpool	Sign in	1 month ago
Cambridge	Errors	1 month ago
Manchester	Errors	2 months ago

Full Outage Map

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iTunes Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  |:| Captain Bertègn |:| 🏓🎮🎧 (@LoicArBreizhat) reported 5 minutes ago

  Come on @AppleMusic we are in 2023 ! One does not ask customers to install an anoying app to unsubscribe to a cloud service. I can't AND don't wanna install ITunes on all my devices ! Have a good day though.

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  Christopher Price (@chrisprice) reported 6 minutes ago

  Bonjour for Windows Print Service largely is sunset. Apple hasn't updated it and no longer ships it with clean iTunes installs. Apple has moved away from iTunes too. A testament to it is that Apple only had to update it a few times in over a decade, whereas UPnP received literally thousands of (critical) Windows security updates. Bonjour may no longer be needed for new Windows printers, but it remains useful for older printers with drivers no longer maintained. Bonjour itself has succeeded UPnP, which now Microsoft largely relegates to... You guessed it, printing.

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  So 🅱️UZZED 💫 2.0 ᵇˡᵐ (@NicsLightyear) reported 6 minutes ago

  Y’all using bully tactics to get people to purchase Alone on iTunes. We don’t see the problem lol?

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  ☽⛧☾༺ 𝔏𝔶𝔠𝔞𝔫 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔠𝔥 ༻☽⚧︎☾ (@LycanWitchcraft) reported 8 minutes ago

  False. Music “purchased” through iTunes, you’re not buying the music itself, you’re buying a license to use the music. While it has the illusion of ownership, you don’t actually own it, ie you need to sign in and authorize your computer for the music files to work, you are limited to burning the songs to disc 7 times total, songs not downloaded or backed up can disappear if the content right holders pull their license with Apple, not allowed to sell or trade or anything beyond personal use with the music, etc.

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  eli 🫧 (@studylew) reported 10 minutes ago

  @hikkichaeri nooooo u can technically do that if u want w the itunes store but apple music is a normal subscription service just like spotify! it’s £1 more expensive than spotify premium individual iirc

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  𝓡𝓪𝔂 𝓓𝓪𝓿𝓲𝓭 𝓓𝓮𝓵𝓿𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓮 (@justAT3chGuy) reported 11 minutes ago

  @Gray22222222 Would full restore in iTunes fix this issue ?

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  Ultramõrd Sillu (@suunasolkija) reported 14 minutes ago

  @spectatorindex UAE: Please stop before someone actually reads the UN Charter we’ve all been ignoring like it’s the iTunes Terms of Service.

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  Nik D (@NiktheMIZfit) reported 15 minutes ago

  @TwitterBlue is the new U2 “Songs of Innocence” Album on iTunes, 99.9% of people don’t want it, but it’s being shoved down their throats lol

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  uncle yoongi⁷ (@Yunkiminyoon) reported 21 minutes ago

  first of all, I'm so sorry I had to tell this and might be cancelled too. but, I can't prevent anyone to buy haegeum and DDay tracks on itunes, BUT this kinda alarming because jm solos team up to put down haegeum :') so you know what to do.

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  Daya Gyan (@DayaGyan20) reported 21 minutes ago

  @chartspjm we just need one day for ITunes for break bts record suddenly lc disapper from itunes dont tell me all of this issue concidence they dont have any plan for jm in the first day that is all that is why they give him 10 day debut

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  PugSmore ⁷ 💜아포방포😈 (@PugSmore) reported 23 minutes ago

  So weird, listening to a Haegeum focused playlist on AM from my Apple TV iTunes music app and it’s skipping all the Haegeum. When I try clicking on Haegeum on the playlist it just skips to the next song. Anyone else notice this issue with AM?

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  ticketmaster hate account (@ewelinaevis) reported 23 minutes ago

  @jisoofalafel im not... a fan messaged sorn about the issue and only then it was put on itunes even surpassing whatever bts song was trending at the time... their power was too much for cube to handle and ill never forgive for how they mistreated my girls

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  Biez (@BiezusNice) reported 28 minutes ago

  @KEMBE_X Man, I don’t even stream - I buy allllll my ****! Physicals, exclusive drops, merch, all’at… Bandcamp (preferably) or iTunes. [****’s actually kinda a problem]

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  Qrow ❤️‍🔥 | just escaped the Hells | ❤️‍🔥 (@aSinisterQrow_) reported 33 minutes ago

  is anyone else's VTube Studio just NOT working correctly ?? i can only be in my model for an hour before the framerate DROPS to ****** 2 fps -- i cant use VTS at all unless i KEEP ITunes open the entire time i using it . i have to connect and reconnect 75 times every time .

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  Matt (@mpetruzz) reported 36 minutes ago

  @Dean_Devlin iTunes is where the problem is. It's where I tried to buy it.

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  🤍💜 Scythe of Luna 💜🤍 (@scythe_of_luna) reported 38 minutes ago

  idk if my music gonna be re/released on apple/itunes, no new releases are live after more than a month passed, also I can't login into my artist account cuz my phone number is "NOT OK". ********. who cares about apple anyway. Spotify is the way <3

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  abc doreWi (@waeppw) reported 43 minutes ago

  @BLINKSTATS this is why I hate Apple music cause udk what is causing the problem. it's either u played the downloaded iTunes version or WiFi isn't working

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  Shizuka Watanabe (@ShiWatana) reported 46 minutes ago

  First, some context. By early 2004, the iPod had become the world's most popular music player. Over 2 million units sold. 30 million songs downloaded from iTunes. But Apple faced a massive problem:

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  JPL13 (@TreadmillRaver1) reported 46 minutes ago

  with my return of Iphone to her with the request that the phone number be terminated or at least that ATT be informed that the phone was broken and I had/have no ability to fix it and thus I gave it back to her. Following that I had no access to my legally purchased Itunes books

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  mari (@sydneybbristow) reported 48 minutes ago

  @brittscapes I thought for sure it was on Apple Music but apparently their streaming service didn’t even exist then, I bought it on iTunes??

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  𝓜𝓪𝓻𝓲𝓪 ⁷ 💜 (@mariawithIuv) reported 51 minutes ago

  @taetan77 Billboard, itunes, numerous records on spotify plus his numbers are great, has charting albums in so many countries around the world and I could keep going on but just go back to your main and stop talking about hoseok instead of trying to bring him down

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  Rooster83 (@Rooster832) reported 52 minutes ago

  @PureDeadCouchy @GamingSinceNES Honestly depends on a lot of different factors like your internet connection what service you're using etc etc but I believe iTunes and movies anywhere have dobly Atmos and vision and I believe they both stream at around 30mbps.

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  Macadelic Music (@MacadelicMusic) reported 53 minutes ago

  @groovjourney Can we please get a chart for the other streaming service and for the iTunes

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  🎶Writer Laura Ooo Ooooooo Beeby Baby🎶💙 (@Writer_LauraBee) reported 55 minutes ago

  @ronnieplonk I read! I have a couple of songs by the Leaves on my iTunes (yes, I'm that Boomer! 😝) but I need to down load more based on that thread.

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  🇮🇹🇮🇹 (@marblur1) reported 56 minutes ago

  @MorganWallen I'm the problem album return at 1 on us itunes album charts. He outsold "Reputation, I'm the fraud of music industry" version by Taylor swift.

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  Aiden #LeaveHBOMaxAlone #FireDavidZaslav (@Aiden57518460) reported 58 minutes ago

  @ClassicCNFan @NaruMembrane When iTunes adds complete series to their service, that usually means a complete series DVD box set's coming soon.

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  𝒫𝓇𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒 ✧ (@thebarbiebtx) reported 58 minutes ago

  Maybe the Barbz should make our own streaming service/chart system. All we need is people relying and using it like Billboard and ITunes Charts, right? What makes Billboard official and not sound cloud charting unofficial? Artist? Money? Business? Nicki alone can launch this ****

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  Greg Collins (@glcollins) reported 58 minutes ago

  My biggest issue with the #AppleTV app is that I cannot pick my dealt viewing source. If I purchase something from iTunes, I do not want to watch from a streaming service (due to the commercials). @Apple please fix this. You are making buying something on iTunes less valuable by defaulting to the streaming apps.

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  Sun_Devil (@sundevil10) reported 59 minutes ago

  @Dishasatra Solution is to create a virtual location in some other drive where you have space and provide that location to iTunes. I recently faced the same problem.

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  grace (@ravioli_lvr) reported 59 minutes ago

  when I was ten I bought monster by lady gaga on itunes and it was the explicit version and I instantly got so scared that i’d get in trouble I told my parents on myself and my step dad tried to get apple to refund and undownload it from my ipod