Is Apple TV+ unavailable? Thousands of people complain about the streaming site
The Synopsis
On Tuesday, thousands of users complained about streaming problems with Apple TV+.
Users encountered a "unable to play" error when attempting to stream a show.
On its system status page, Apple acknowledged that some users would have sporadic problems with the service, but it also provided an estimated time of arrival for a fix.
Thousands of users on Tuesday reported an outage with Apple TV+, according to Downdetector.
What we know:
The Apple System Status website also showed that Apple TV/+ began experiencing issues at about 3:48 p.m.
"Users may be experiencing intermittent issues with this service," the status page said. Some users may also experience an inability to "access multiple services and stores or make purchases."
When attempting to stream an episode of a show, users were met with an "unable to play" message.
By Tuesday evening, the reports of outages were down to a couple of hundred users.
The Apple system status website stated the issue was resolved by 11:04 p.m. ET.
What we don't know:
Apple has not said what caused the glitch.
What they're saying:
People also took to X to air out their grievances.
"Hopefully there will be a credit on my bill... Trying to relax, then crash!" one user said.
"I think Apple+ just crashed. Watching Ghosted with my dad and just died. Cant stream anything," another said.
