The issues appear to have started just before 4 p.m. U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (2000 GMT), according to a timeline provided on Apple’s U.S. support page. The App Store functionality was restored at about 6:30 p.m. EDT. (Reuters)Apple Inc said that its App Store resumed services following a more than two-hour outage on Thursday that affected a number of its services.
However, other services related to iCloud and the iPhone maker’s Photos application continued to remain unavailable for some users. (http://apple.co/1Uk10Yx)
The issues appear to have started just before 4 p.m. U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (2000 GMT), according to a timeline provided on Apple’s U.S. support page. The App Store functionality was restored at about 6:30 p.m. EDT.
“We are investigating and will update the status as more information becomes available,” the company said on the website.