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Apple Music Outage Affects Users in Multiple Countries

Apple confirmed an outage affecting Apple Music that began at 11:40 a.m. Eastern time on May 29, 2026. The disruption has been reported in the United States and several other countries.

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Apple confirmed on May 29 that Apple Music was experiencing an outage. The company's System Status page listed the service with a red triangle indicating the problem. The outage began at 11:40 a.m. Eastern time. At the time of reporting, the service had been unavailable for approximately five hours.

The outage affected users in multiple countries.

Reports came from the United States, Australia, Brazil, France, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Spain. One earlier outage lasted more than a day.

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