Downtime for Apple Music and App Store Privacy Labels

26 APRIL 2022 - Two stories Monday that looked bigger than they actually were - and may have been tied together on the back-end (nothin’ kinky). Early in the morning on Monday, MacRumors ran a piece saying that the App Store Privacy Labels had mysteriously disappeared from apps in the App Store. Launched in December of 2020 and meant to “give users insight into what information an app collects and shares about them,” kind of tough to do without them there.

That was story number one. Not much later Monday morning came story number two, this one from TechCrunch, that had Apple confirming issues with Apple Music and the App Store. Users may have experienced “a problem”or “intermittent issues” with each service, according to Apple. The TechCrunch piece had Downdetector indicating that the App Store problems started around 6:30AM Pacific/9:30 AM Eastern, while Apple Music problems were said to have started at 4:30AM Pacific/7:30 AM Eastern. 

None of which is what Apple said.

When I checked the site around 10AM Pacific/1PM Eastern, Apple’s system status page said that the problems had started about 1.5-hours earlier and were still ongoing. It actually said that for several hours, though when I checked again at around 3PM Pacific/6PM Eastern, the message said the issues had started at 1:15 AM Pacific, and were resolved right around 9:00 AM Pacific, which is wildly different from what it had said for most of the day and what Downdetector down detected. 

Checking late afternoon/early evening - not only is Apple Music humming a tune, the mysterious, disappearing App Store Privacy Labels seem to have reappeared. See? Two stories that looked bigger than they actually were - and may have been tied together on the back-end (nothin’ kinky).

Everything should be working now. If it’s not, try hitting it.