Apple's App Store and Apple Music are down, just days before Black Friday

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Apple CEO Tim Cook

The Apple App Store appears to be down for iPhone users on Tuesday night, just days before the Black Friday shopping event. Apple Music also appears to be impacted by the problems.

Business Insider could not access the App Store from several devices at the time of writing.

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On its system status dashboard, Apple acknowledges the problem, saying that the issues began at 5:20 P.M. PST.

"Users are experiencing a problem with the App Store. We are investigating and will update the status as more information becomes available," writes Apple.

The dashboard also indicates that users might also be having problems with Apple Music. "Users may be unable to access multiple services or make purchases," writes Apple. We've reached out to Apple for more information and will update when we hear back.

iPhone users are getting this error message when they try to access the App Store:

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This is what iPhone users are seeing when they access the Apple App Store.