Checks by Reuters on all Apple internet sites in Asia, Europe and North and South America all confirmed challenges the services.
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The problems hit as the nominees were being announced for the 2015 Video Music Awards, an excluisve partnership between MTV and Beats 1.
Apple Music has stabilized, with Apple fixing the issues on the radio service.
We’ve reached out to Apple for comment and will update this post accordingly when we hear back.
Apple’s web stores, music streaming, and cloud services are struggling to stay online today.
Issues seemed to begin around 2.30pm United Kingdom time.
The problems appear to have started just before 10 a.m. ET, according to a timeline on Apple’s US support page.
Apple Music and its Beast One radio station are offline and inaccessible for many users, along with 11 other Apple services.
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In a note on the firm’s official System Status page which flagged the troubled services, Apple said it will “update the status as more information becomes available”.
