Apple's System Status page indicated a short-lived outage impacting Apple Music and Apple TV. The problem surfaced on Apple's monitoring system approximately at 2:53 PM ET, disrupting the two streaming platforms as well as the Channels option in Apple TV, before engineers fixed it by about 4:31 PM ET.
User complaints about Apple TV and Apple Music began surfacing on DownDetector shortly after 2:33 PM ET, preceding Apple's formal acknowledgment on their platform. The company noted that the interruption only reached a portion of its customer base, and reports from Engadget's team suggested that several colleagues continued accessing streams uninterrupted amid the reported problems.
Engadget contacted Apple seeking further details about the incident and the scope of affected individuals. This story will be revised with any responses received.
Apple depends on external cloud infrastructure providers such as Amazon to maintain its operations, making its reliability tied to those rented facilities. Back in October 2025, Apple encountered fallout from an Amazon Web Services failure that also halted platforms including Alexa, Fortnite, and Snapchat for several hours. Update, December 10, 5:09 PM ET: This piece and its title now account for the outage's resolution.
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