Beginning Tuesday morning just before 10 A.M. EST time and continuing through to the afternoon, many Apple device users are experiencing outage problems and error messages as they attempt to use Apple's online services.

According to Apple's online system status page, affected services include:

• App Store
• Apple Music
• Apple TV
• iBooks Store
• iTunes in the Cloud
• iTunes Match
• iTunes Store
• iTunes U
• Mac App Store
• OS X Software Update
• Radio
• Volume Purchase Program

It's unknown what is causing the problems, but Apple is surely behind the scenes trying to patch the problem as we write this story. Similar outages happen every so often as Apple performs routine maintenance or experiences glitches in their systems.

We will update you when everything is back online; stay tuned!