Apple today informed employees that its Apple retail stores in the United States will remain closed until early May, and Apple employees will continue to work from home until then.
Apple closed all its stores outside of Greater China in March shortly after the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 as a pandemic. Its original plan was to reopen on March 27th until it posted a message on its website telling customers that its stores will remain closed “until further notice.” A previous internal memo from O’Brien notified staff members that Apple could start reopening stores in early April, but that won’t be possible with stay-at-home orders still in place across the US.
In case you left your device with Apple for repair before the COVID-19-related shutdowns happened, that means you’ll have to wait a bit longer to retrieve it.
Apple had previously planned to begin reopening some stores in the first half of April, and that could still be the plan for some of its stores outside of the U.S. At the current time, all stores outside of China are closed and have been shuttered since March 14.
