Seems both TV and Music are affected, I wonder if it's some storage service somewhere just totally degraded. I love CloudFlare for their total transparency reports about outages. I wish every other company would follow the same standard.
- activation: wiping an iOS/iPadOS/visionOS device, or reinstalling a mac after a full disk wipe
- apns: push notifications, used for realtime notifications for all apps on iOS/iPadOS, even things like Signal that do not use Apple's messaging infrastructure
- imessage: enough said
- boot ticket signing: required for any mac to do an OS update (it's serialized to the CPU's ECID)
any one of these going down for any significant period of time is going to cause widespread global economic disruption.
Did this affect notifications/app updates? I found that podcasts from my third-party app were not showing up for me when they normally do. I would assume that when I manually refresh the list, that wouldn't rely on Apple servers, but given this outage maybe there's a linkage?
I wonder about APNs and Apple Business Manager. I've heard from people seeing weird stuff happening on those products but I don't see it on the report here.
This outage was affecting developer.apple.com and pushing iOS app versions to test flight/production. I thought I was going crazy, thanks for posting this.
Apple Services Experiencing Outage
(apple.com)130 points by rock_artist 10 December 2025 | 64 comments
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- activation: wiping an iOS/iPadOS/visionOS device, or reinstalling a mac after a full disk wipe
- apns: push notifications, used for realtime notifications for all apps on iOS/iPadOS, even things like Signal that do not use Apple's messaging infrastructure
- imessage: enough said
- boot ticket signing: required for any mac to do an OS update (it's serialized to the CPU's ECID)
any one of these going down for any significant period of time is going to cause widespread global economic disruption.
Guess this explains it.
Does Apple internally do something like COE's like Amazon?