article_snippet: Apple has apologised for a 12-hour outage that left customers without access to some of Apple most popular online services, including the App Store and iTunes.
article_snippet: Apple has apologised for a 12 hour outage that left users without access to some of Apple most popular online services, including the App Store and iTunes (pictured) Problems began yesterday just before 9am GMT and ended at around 8.30pm GMT.
article_snippet: the fault affected customers of the App Store, iTunes, iBooks store and Mac App store in over 40 countries.
article_snippet: Users of Apple's iCloud service were also unable to access emails and documents for around four hours and app developers were affected too as iTunes Connect and Testflight were down all day.
article_snippet: We apologise to We customers experiencing problems with iTunes and other services this morning,' An Apple spokesman said. '
article_snippet: The fault affected customers of the App Store, iTunes, iBooks store and Mac App store in over 40 countries.
article_snippet: Yesterday, Apple's status page was updated to show that customers couldn't access App Store, iTunes, iBooks store and Mac App store in over 40 countries (pictured).
article_snippet: We apologise to We customers experiencing problems with iTunes and other services this morning," An Apple spokesman said. '
article_snippet: The front pages of both the App Store and Mac App Store were accessible, but there were broken pages on the sites when accessing individual apps.
article_snippet: An early post from Californian tech giant's Apple Support Twitter handle said: 'APP STORE ISSUE: You may be receiving an error this morning.
article_snippet: the App Store is down.'
article_snippet: A user called MisterDanD said: ' iTunes, App Store is DOWN worldwide, which is screwing up my morning!
article_snippet: #apple #iTunes' and a user called lightcap wrote: 'Apple's app store is down (for purchasing, not browsing), but the world's most useless site remains useless as ever...' posting a link to the company's status page.
article_snippet: App Store was last down on Monday, but the move was intentional as Apple prepared to launch Apple Apple Watch in San Francisco.
highlights_snippet: Users couldn't access the App Store and iTunes for 12 hours yesterday .
  