Apple Maps is experiencing a widespread outage, according to the company System Status page.
Maps routing, navigation and search are impacted by the outage, which is affecting all users, the page informs.
[Update: the problems were resolved at 1:05 PM ET.]The issues were first noticed by the Apple news site MacRumors, before Apple own website confirmed the outage starting at 8:48 AM ET.The disruption is impacting Apple Maps across platforms, including iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and CarPlay.Unfortunately, Apple has only just announced its CarPlay platform would open up to third-party navigation and mapping apps with the release of iOS 12 & but that hasn&t yet come to pass.
That means CarPlay users will have to launch a different navigation app on their phone in order to get directions during this outage.While the Apple Maps user interface will load, when you try to search for a given destination or try to navigate, it gives an error message like &No Results Found& or &Directions Not Available.& Or sometimes, the screen will just continue to read &Loading..& without ever displaying the results, or say &The network connection was lost.&Apple has not said what causing the outage or when it expects a fix to be in place.
Often, these sort of things are related to data center issues or unstable software updates.
Currently, Apple System Status page states that Apple is &investigating the issue.&Reached for comment, an Apple spokesperson pointed TechCrunch to the System Status page but had no other information at this time.Update: The problems were resolved at 1:05 PM ET according to the status page, but no other information was provided.