7 Aug 2013
Apple outages affect App Store, iTunes & FaceTime for hours
Apple servers and some services were down on August 7 2013. Services that suffered were the App Store, iTunes Store, Mac App Store, iBook Store, iTunes Cloud, iCloud backup and FaceTime.
The outage started at 8:23 AM PDT and ended at 2:08 PM PDT when the problems with FaceTime were resolved:
- 8:23 AM – 10:54 AM -PDT Some users were affected. Users may have been unable to make purchases from the App Store, iTunes Store, Mac App Store, or iBookstore. Users may also have been unable to access iTunes in the Cloud, iTunes Match, or restore purchases from an iCloud backup.
- FaceTime – 9:55 AM – 2:08 PM PDT – Some FaceTime users were affected. Users may have been unable to place FaceTime calls.
|
Date |
Service |
Duration |
Critical Data Lost |
|
2013-8-7 |
Apple Services |
5 hours 15 minutes |
no |
References:
http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/08/07/itunes-store-suffering-outage-impacting-some-users/
http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/08/07/apple-outages-affect-app-store-itunes-facetime-for-hours