Apple Service Outage Affects iTunes, iCloud Drive, More

Several Apple Web services are unavailable for some users following widespread outages on Thursday afternoon. As of 6 p.m. Eastern time, the Apple support website showed that the App Store, iCloud Drive, and Apple TV services were unavailable for some users.

On Twitter, the Apple support team said it was aware of the outages and that the company was investigating. It also said it was aware of an "issue with the App Store."

All told, 13 Apple Web services were listed as "unavailable for some users" at 6 p.m. They did not include iMessage, iCloud Mail, or FaceTime.

Several Twitter users posted photos of the messages they received, most of which sayed that iTunes was "unable to process purchases at this time."

@AppleSupport ?????? pic.twitter.com/xXB2Gilu0i

— Emmanuel Losa (@Xanders3333) June 2, 2016

Another Twitter user posted a photo appearing to show a more general error, which read: "Unable to connect to server."

@AppleSupport help me out. This is what I get when I try and sign into gamecenter... pic.twitter.com/ABDbasUUre

— Chief Mozer (@Chief_Mozer) June 2, 2016

An Apple representative did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

A major service outage in March 2015 affected iTunes and the App Store, with some users unable to connect for an entire evening. Apple said the cause of that outage was an an internal DNS error.

Earlier issues plagued Apple email services and the company's popular iMessage platform in 2013 and 2012.