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An Apple TV outage late Thursday afternoon left viewers questioning why they couldn’t watch their favourite exhibits.
Round 5 p.m. PST, a message within the Apple TV app learn: “Content material Unavailable. There’s an issue loading this content material. If this continues, verify your Web connection.” The continuing downside apparently impacts the Apple TV app, in addition to the Apple TV+ streaming service and the channels subscribed to by means of the Apple TV app. On Macs, the message appeared within the Watch Now, Apple TV+ and Retailer tabs of Apple’s TV app.
Apple TV down: It’s official
A couple of minutes after complaints surfaced on Twitter, the Apple System Standing web page famous an “problem” with each Apple TV Channels and Apple TV+. The Downdetector website additionally confirmed a spike of reviews of issues with Apple TV across the identical time.
Apple TV+ followers attempting to make amends for hits like Ted Lasso — which has a brand new season coming quickly — and Severance appeared significantly sad, as might be seen within the tweets under.
What triggered the Apple TV outage?
The continuing Apple TV outage seems widespread and idiosyncratic. Cult of Mac confirmed the issue utilizing the Apple TV app on a Mac and an iPhone within the San Francisco Bay Space, each of which refused to play any content material. Nonetheless, the app labored on an Apple TV set-top field situated on the identical residence. Loading the Apple TV app on an iPad in Georgia produced the identical downside. And on a Roku, additionally in Georgia, the Apple TV app confirmed episodes of exhibits, however they might not be performed.
Cult of Mac contacted Apple in regards to the trigger and scope of the outage, and when viewers can anticipate the service to begin working once more. We’ll replace this publish after we discover out extra.
