The app surged to the top free app on Apple's App Store after Anthropic clashed with the Department of Defense over limits for the technology.
Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence models had “elevated errors” on Monday, as the app held its spot as the most popular free app on Apple
’s App Store.
Claude’s status website showed “degraded performance” on Claude Opus 4.6, its latest model released last month.
In an update at 10:49 a.m. ET, the site stated that the Opus 4.6 issue was identified and a fix was in the works.
An update at 10:47 a.m. ET on the site said that issues on claude.ai, console and claude code had been resolved.
OpenAI's ChatGPT remains the top free app in the U.S. on Apple's rankings, but Claude has steadily gained traction.
Claude climbs to top of app store charts in US and UK after being blacklisted by Pentagon over ethics concerns
The company releases a study that shows its own engineers use Claude more to debug code than to write new software.
Anthropic customers that do business with the government are having to make the tough call on whether to abandon Claude.
Anthropic says its new Claude Opus 4.5 excels at coding, using computers and assisting users with complex enterprise tasks.
Anthropic said it is working to "fully resolve this issue," according to its page showing the status of the Claude chatbot,…
