Apple Music is experiencing a widespread outage affecting users across multiple countries, marking the third major disruption in just two months. The service disruption began at 11:40 am ET and has impacted customers in Australia, Brazil, France, India, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Spain, and the United States, according to Apple's System Status pages.

Apple officially designated this as an "outage" rather than a minor "issue," indicating the severity of the problem. While some users may still have partial access, many worldwide are experiencing intermittent service failures. The company's status pages confirm that "some users are affected" with connectivity problems.

This latest outage adds to recent reliability concerns for Apple's music streaming service, which costs $10.99 monthly with a one-month free trial. Users experiencing issues have reported problems on Downdetector, though the number of reports appears to be decreasing, suggesting the company may be working toward resolution.