Apple says some services including App Store facing issues

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Workers prepare for the opening of an Apple store in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, January 23, 2015. REUTERS/Chance Chan/File Photo

(Reuters) - Apple Inc said that its App Store resumed services following a more than two-hour outage on Thursday that affected a number of its services. However, other services related to iCloud and the iPhone maker's Photos application continued to remain unavailable for some users. (http://apple.co/1Uk10Yx) The issues appear to have started just before 4 p.m. U.S. Eastern Daylight Time (2000 GMT), according to a timeline provided on Apple's U.S. support page. The App Store functionality was restored at about 6:30 p.m. EDT. "We are investigating and will update the status as more information becomes available," the company said on the website. (Reporting by Narottam Medhora and Shalini Nagarajan in Bengaluru; Editing by Don Sebastian and Bill Rigby)