Apple back online after outage hits nearly a dozen services

Apple has said all its services, including the App Store, Apple TV and Apple Music, have resumed following an outage that started late afternoon on Monday.

Nearly a dozen Apple services were down for thousands of users.

According to outage tracking website Downdetector.com, more than 4,000 users reported problems accessing Apple Music, while nearly 4,000 reported problems with iCloud.

Downdetector tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage may be affecting a larger number of users.

Apple did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The company was responding to affected users on Twitter but it was unclear what caused the outages.

In a number of incidents last year, DNS issues caused widespread outages on social media platforms including Facebook and Instagram, and brought down websites of airlines and banks for several hours.