Apple's services, including the App Store, have resumed following an outage that started late afternoon on Thursday. Apple's U.S. web page showed all applications had resumed as of 11:55 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (0355 GMT).

"There are no reported issues at this time," the company said a few minutes later on its web page.

The iPhone maker said services related to iCloud and the Photos application have also resumed.

The issues appear to have started just before 4 p.m. EDT, according to a timeline provided on the tech giant's support page.