Apple: all services such as App Store have returned to normal

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Beijing, June 3 (Reuters)-Apple said on Friday that all its services, including App Store, have returned to normal. Apple's service has been down since Thursday evening.

­Apple's US status page showed that as of 23: 55 EDT on Thursday (11:55 Beijing time on Friday), all apps had returned to normal. "so far, all reported issues have been resolved," Apple said.

­Apple said services related to iCloud and photo apps have also returned to normal.

­according to the timeline of Apple's support page, the outage appears to have occurred just before 16:00 EDT on Thursday (4pm Beijing time on Friday). Although some of Apple's services returned to normal earlier, including AppStore at 18: 30 EDT on Thursday (6:30 Beijing time on Friday), some users are still unable to use other services related to iCloud and photo apps.

An Apple spokesman earlier declined to comment on the nature of the outage, but noted that the web page showed that most services had returned to normal. (compilation / rainstorm)