Apple Business Essentials, Business Manager, and School Manager degraded

Apple experienced a partial outage affecting Apple School Manager, Apple Business Essentials, and Apple Business Manager, with some users seeing slow or unavailable access to these services. The incident began at 2:57 PM UTC when the Apple System Status page indicated degraded performance and lasted for about 1 hour and 45 minutes, with services returning to normal by 4:42 PM UTC. The issue impacted three components and was observed across multiple regions via user reports from Edmonton, Durban, and Liverpool.

The Apple status page issued two updates during the incident, acknowledging degraded performance and later restoration of the affected services. show less