INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
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.
