After months of preparation and widespread advertising campaign, Apple's highly anticipated new show For many debuted on the company's TV streaming service Thursday night. And the service immediately experienced a serious disruption in the US and Canada.
According to Bloomberg and others, users began reporting that the service went down around 10:30 pm ET, shortly after Apple made the first two episodes of the show available for streaming. There were about 13,000 messages. Downdetector before Apple acknowledged the problem on its system status page. Reports say the outage was brief, lasting less than an hour.
At the time of writing this page returned to green. But an outage permission note remains on Apple TV (simply saying, “Some users are affected; users are experiencing an issue with Apple TV” between 10:29 p.m. and 11:38 p.m.), as well as Apple Music and Apple Arcade, which also went down around the same time. Social media posts showed the outage was widespread.
For many this is the work of Vince Gilligan, who created Breaking Bad And Better call Sauland star Rhea Seehorn from the last show. This is one of the most high-profile offerings to hit Apple TV, so this glitch couldn't have come at a better time. It's unclear what went wrong on a technical level, although it's possible that Apple's servers simply weren't ready for this level of demand.
