Is Apple Books Down? Check current status
Check if Apple Books is down, official outages, user-reported issues, and outages map.
Current Apple Books status
Apple Books is working normally
Updated from Apple official status page
Apple Books service health. Issues reported in the last 24 hours
Check the number of user-reported issues over the past 24 hours, grouped into 20-minute intervals. It's normal to see occasional reports, which may be due to individual user issues rather than a broader problem. We only consider an issue widespread if there are multiple reports within a short timeframe.
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Apple Books recent outages and downtime history
IsDown has tracked 4 incidents for Apple Books since started monitoring Apple status in December 2022. We collect data from 4522+ services, and normalize the data to give you a clear picture of the impact of the outage. It will show official Apple Books outages and also issues that we're started by a spike in crowdsource reports.
| Date | Incident | Duration |
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Aug 27, 2024
10:17 AM MST
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Major
Users may be experiencing a problem with this service. - Some users are affected
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about 2 hours |
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Apr 03, 2024
03:39 PM MST
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Major
Outage in App Store, Apple Arcade, Apple Books, Apple Fitness+, Apple Music, Apple Music Subscrip...
Users may be unable to sign in. - Some users are affected
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about 1 hour |
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Jan 22, 2024
11:40 AM MST
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Major
Users are experiencing a problem with this service. We are investigating and will update the stat...
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about 5 hours |
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Feb 23, 2023
02:28 PM MST
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Major
Outage in App Store, Apple Books, Apple Fitness+, Apple Music, Apple TV Channels, Apple TV+, Audi...
This service may be slow or unavailable. - Some users are affected
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about 3 hours |
Be the first to know when Apple Books goes down
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User comments about Apple Books status
See what users are saying about Apple Books issues that impacted them and how they are affected by the outage. You can see if other users are experiencing the same issues and if there are any workarounds or solutions.
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Scott - Book I purchased earlier today won’t open..
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Scott - I can’t open a book I purchased earlier today.
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Tim - Apple Books wont open on iPad does on iphone.
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Marcia - Since I uploaded ipados 17.7.7, Books app will not open. Maybe if I let it try to open for 5 minutes or more it would eventually open but that’s unacceptable. What is wrong with Books? May 14, 2025.
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Michele - Will not play. Starts then stops.
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Marty - The bookstore will not load.
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John - My Apple Books won’t download any books including one I’ve just purchased..
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Inge - I can Not Download New Books .
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Micquelynn - The book store will not load. I can only view books I already downloaded .
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Sue - Unable to open book store..
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Diana - Percentage of content read counts double. After reading 50% it remains stuik on 100%. Also number of pages left in chapter in incorrect, adding at least 10 pages more than there actually are. .
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Loren - Not allowing purchases or sample downloads.
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Lim - Unable to purchase book. Says store unavailable at this time.
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Conor - The bookshop won’t open & neither will the books I’ve purchased. .
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Paul - Books aren't loading from my library to read..
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Robert - Cannot sign in. App is missing a home tap..
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Nicola - Will not open, keep getting a spinning circl .
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Z - Keeps crashing. Can’t read anything or buy.
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0 incidents in 2025
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