Apple Services Are Down (Music/Arcade/Fitness/TV/Audiobooks/Appstore) • Hacker News Board

Re: Apple Services Are Down (Music/Arcade/Fitness/TV/Audiobooks/Appstore)

#11

Post by xyst » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 11:10 PM UTC

Number of outages is increasing. Originally it was 6, now it's up to 11.

earlier post (archived): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39924328

Re: Apple Services Are Down (Music/Arcade/Fitness/TV/Audiobooks/Appstore)

#12

Post by DanAtC » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 11:10 PM UTC

If only there were third-party app stores...

Re: Apple Services Are Down (Music/Arcade/Fitness/TV/Audiobooks/Appstore)

#13

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 11:10 PM UTC

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Re: Apple Services Are Down (Music/Arcade/Fitness/TV/Audiobooks/Appstore)

#14

Post by xyst » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 11:12 PM UTC

jen729w wrote: post #6

Australia here. Strangely Siri will play music via the HomePod, but the Music app is not responding.

With the WhatsApp/Facebook/instagram outage earlier today. I am thinking this is either a cloud provider issue or DNS or BGP issue lol

Re: Apple Services Are Down (Music/Arcade/Fitness/TV/Audiobooks/Appstore)

#15

Post by jen729w » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 11:13 PM UTC

xyst wrote: post #14

jen729w wrote: post #6

Australia here. Strangely Siri will play music via the HomePod, but the Music app is not responding.

With the WhatsApp/Facebook/instagram outage earlier today. I am thinking this is either a cloud provider issue or DNS or BGP issue lol

It’s always BGP!

Re: Apple Services Are Down (Music/Arcade/Fitness/TV/Audiobooks/Appstore)

#16

Post by neom » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 11:13 PM UTC

SuperNinKenDo wrote: post #5

"Apple School Manager". Fascinating.

"Apple School Manager is a simple, web-based portal for IT administrators that works with your third-party mobile device management (MDM) solution so that you can easily buy content in volume, whether your organization uses iPhone, iPad, or Mac."

https://support.apple.com/guide/apple-school-manager/intro-t...

Re: Apple Services Are Down (Music/Arcade/Fitness/TV/Audiobooks/Appstore)

#17

Post by jen729w » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 11:14 PM UTC

DanAtC wrote: post #12

If only there were third-party app stores...

…then my Apple Music app would be responding now?

Re: Apple Services Are Down (Music/Arcade/Fitness/TV/Audiobooks/Appstore)

#18

Post by greyface- » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 11:23 PM UTC

xyst wrote: post #14

jen729w wrote: post #6

Australia here. Strangely Siri will play music via the HomePod, but the Music app is not responding.

With the WhatsApp/Facebook/instagram outage earlier today. I am thinking this is either a cloud provider issue or DNS or BGP issue lol

I'm still seeing the normal AS714 prefixes in my table, both over direct IX peering sessions and via transit. If it's BGP, it's not an issue with their external announcements.

Re: Apple Services Are Down (Music/Arcade/Fitness/TV/Audiobooks/Appstore)

#19

Post by neom » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 11:24 PM UTC

xyst wrote: post #11

Number of outages is increasing. Originally it was 6, now it's up to 11. earlier post (archived): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39924328

Looks like 6 core services are off, seems that rolls up to 11 products: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/

Re: Apple Services Are Down (Music/Arcade/Fitness/TV/Audiobooks/Appstore)

#20

Post by user_7832 » Wed, Apr 03, 2024, 11:24 PM UTC

xyst wrote: post #14

jen729w wrote: post #6

Australia here. Strangely Siri will play music via the HomePod, but the Music app is not responding.

With the WhatsApp/Facebook/instagram outage earlier today. I am thinking this is either a cloud provider issue or DNS or BGP issue lol

I always thought that these outages were relatively benign from a user perspective, but after the last major WhatsApp outage a few weeks back I somehow got logged out of my main phone as I tried to "log in" to my 2nd device (and later failed to log back in to the main device that has all data). It appears such edge cases aren't really thoroughly tested, which seems disappointing but also surprising to me.