Apple iPhone (Photo : Reuters)
Tech giant Apple announced that the App Store and several other services are back online after being brought offline for more than three hours.
Along with the App Store, Apple announced that iTunes Store and Apple Music were back online as well. Services along with the Apple website in Europe, Asia, South and North America appears to have been back on line.
The tech giant has yet to comment about what caused the downtime. Apple added that the outage was an isolated case and only affected a handful of users.
Among the Apple services that went offline on July 21, Tuesday, were Apple Music, Apple TV, App Store, iTunes, iBooks Store, Mac App Store, OS X Software Update, Radio and Volume Purchase Program.
During the outage Apple posted a list in order to inform its users of the current status of some of its services.
Although Apple did not provide the main reason for the outage, the Daily Mail reported that it may be due to the sudden user influx into the Beats 1 radio channel in order to tune in for the announcement of the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards nominees.
Reports about the outage started to surface around 10 a.m. ET, around the same time the MTV Awards nomination was about to start. The service resumed at around 1:15 p.m. ET.
On its support page, Apple wrote, "We are investigating and will update the status as more information becomes available."
The last time Apple was struck with a major service downtime was in March when the iTunes service and App Store was taken offline after a 12-hour outage.
