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Following a testing three hours for some, Apple has confirmed that all services are now back up and running as normal.
Apple Music, iTunes and the App Store were among the services that were affected on Tuesday evening, with some users being unable to get any response from them.
Reports of problems across a host of services, also including Apple TV and the iBooks Store, had been logged by the technology giant, with the iPhone maker saying it was investigating the problems.
In a note on the firm’s official System Status page which flagged the troubled services, Apple said it would “update the status as more information becomes available”.
That message has now vanished and been replaced with the summary: “Users experienced a problem with multiple iCloud services.”
Apple is yet to offer further comment on the cause of the problem – a move that suggests it was an internal issue rather than something more sinister.
The outage came at a particularly unfortunate time for the company, as its Beats 1 radio station was in the process of announcing the nominees for the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) as an exclusive, a big moment for the still-young service; Beats 1 only launched as part of Apple Music last month.
A range of other iTunes services, including iTunes in the Cloud, Match and iTunes U were also listed as experiencing issues, as well as the Mac App Store, OS X Software Updates, Radio and the Volume Purchase Programme.
The service problems comes ahead of the technology company revealing its latest round of financial results later on Tuesday, which are expected to detail sales figures of the Apple Watch, which launched in April, for the first time.
