According to Apple’s system status page, Apple Music and Apple TV were briefly down during the outage. The outage was logged on Apple’s own systems at around 2:53 PM ET and affected the Apple TV’s Channels feature as well as both of the company’s streaming services, until the company resolved the issue around 4:31 PM ET.
On DownDetector, reports of problems with Apple TV and Apple Music first appeared around 2:33 pm ET, slightly before Apple officially confirmed the outage on its site. According to Apple, only “a few” users were affected by the outage, and anecdotally, several members of Engadget’s staff were still able to stream content while services were reportedly down.
Engadget has contacted Apple for more information about the outage and how many people were affected. We will update this article if we get any response.
Apple relies on cloud services from third-party companies like Amazon, and is ultimately only as stable as the data centers it’s paying for. In October 2025, the company was hit by the same Amazon Web Services outage that shut down services and apps like Alexa, Fortnite, and Snapchat for hours.
Update, Dec. 10, 5:09pm ET: The article and headline have been updated to reflect that the outage has been resolved.
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