Users are reporting downtime for some of Apple’s iCloud services this afternoon including problems logging in to iCloud and syncing data to apps that access the cloud services for calendars, mail and more.
You might have heard some discussing the state of Apple Music on the iPod nano and shuffle, two products that just got a minor facelift alongside a larger refresh for their bigger brother, the iPod touch. And you might have already guessed that streaming to the devices was a no-go from the lack of Wi-Fi capabilities, but it turns out you won’t even be able to store your offline Apple Music collection on the devices either.
The reason, according to sources, is simply to prevent piracy…
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Parallels announced an update to Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac today that introduces experimental support for OS X Mavericks. That means developers with access to Mavericks will be able to run Parallels Desktop 8 on the OS and also install the OS X 10.9 preview in a virtual machine.
The company has an article available to walk devs through getting Desktop 8 for Mac running on Mavericks and another outlining best practices for installing it as a virtual machine. While you can’t yet install Mavericks into a blank virtual machine, you will be able to update an existing OS X install to the developer preview. Those error messages some users were getting when attempting to run Mavericks on Parallels Desktop 8 should also be taken care of with the latest build.
Parallels hinted more news about Mavericks and its integration with Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac is on the way and is answering questions in its forums here and here.
Good news if you don’t yet own a copy: Parallels Desktop 8 for Mac is currently 25% for a limited time.
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Earlier today Google officially pushed out an update to its existing Google Search app for iPhone enabling the Google Now service with weather and traffic conditions, updates on breaking news and sports, and more. Some users logging into Google Search through a Google Apps account might have noticed that using the features would prompt an error that “your administrator hasn’t enabled Google Now for your domain.” Hanselman.com shares instructions on enabling the feature which aren’t exactly obvious since the setting is buried in “Android settings”.
Google Apps for Business, Education, and Government: Google Now needs to be turned on by an administrator before it can be used.
If you are an administrator, you can enable Google Now for users in your organization by following these steps:
Update, 9:34 AM: Apple has now updated its System Status page to confirm the outages we reported earlier this morning. Apple reports some users experienced issues with account & sign in for iCloud, purchases for iTunes, Game Center, and creating new Apple IDs:
Over the last couple of months Apple’s iCloud servers have been experiencing major outages approximately every couple of weeks and today a growing number of users are once again complaining of issues accessing various iCloud services.
9to5Mac readers in several countries have reached out to Apple support who confirmed the outages, although Apple is yet to update its System Status page to reflect the downtime. Apple is typically at least a few hours behind in reporting outages.
As highlighted by hundreds of users on Twitter, the outages appear to be affecting multiple iCloud services including Mail, third-party apps attempting to access iCloud credentials, and Find my iPhone. Others are simply receiving an error message when attempting to access any iCloud service. Some users are also reporting that iCloud is requesting they reset their passwords as if their account is experiencing a security issue.
We’ll update this post when/if Apple finally reports the outages.
So, is iCloud coming down, or are we hallucinating? http://t.co/fKAepnEhzO
— Ulysses Team (@the_soulmen) April 23, 2013
#iCloud seems to be down. Or account hacked? Hopefully not…
— Juhana Venäläinen (@juhana_) April 23, 2013
iCloud – AppStore – iTunes : Hors Service pic.twitter.com/6llTx5pu8o
— Vincent Chapeau (@iChaps_) April 23, 2013
https://twitter.com/himanzoo/status/326669089533722624
https://twitter.com/KhaledYousry/status/326666876124033024
Anyone else having #server issues with #Apple #icloud this morning?
— Kevvy (@kevvyrowley) April 23, 2013
the strangest thing is happening to my #icloud email account on my phone. hope messages will return… :-((
— bernardo (@bjchan) April 23, 2013
https://twitter.com/ridewithgarrett/status/326664553310081024
@flexibits Fantastical keeps asking for my password for my iCloud cal. Ideas?
— Meron Bareket (@MeronBareket) April 23, 2013
Apple appears to be experiencing issues with its iCloud Mail service today, as a growing number of users report receiving a delivery error message from postmaster@mac.com for every email received (as pictured above). Most users report still being able to receive emails but also receiving the above error report for each email, while others claim the problem is only happening on specific accounts. An Apple support thread has been started with an increasing number of posters experiencing the same issue since this morning.
Reason: Error in sieve filter: Notify mailto: recipient is not a valid address Action: delivered Status: 2.0.0 (Error in sieve filter: Notify mailto: recipient is not a valid address).
There are also several users on Twitter complaining of the same error, but Apple ha yet to update its system status page to reflect the problems with Mail.
Anybody else using http://t.co/yMNQlQaozp email addresses getting mail delivery error messages after receiving actual emails? It’s annoying!
— Subtle Code Switch Traits (@Tabbulous) March 7, 2013
https://twitter.com/datasaur/status/309705896399863809
Anybody else have 'Problem during delivery processing' from postmaster@mac.com ? #iCloud #Mail #Alias #fail
— John Stoll (@jstoll) March 7, 2013
Apple is keeping mum of their iCloud mail problems, but the infamous "Error in sieve filter" is their issue | http://t.co/9zGxrHVO4K
— cteodor (@cteodor) March 7, 2013
https://twitter.com/arumandox/status/309717313265999874
We reported on Friday that AOL had informed its corporate employees via email that it would be temporarily disabling the ability to manage meetings with Exchange on iOS devices running iOS 6.1. AOL confirmed that it was working with Microsoft and Apple to fix the “continuous loop” bug, and many had highlighted the problem on Microsoft’s forums. It doesn’t appear Apple addressed the issue with its recent release of iOS 6.1.1, and Microsoft has now published an official support document to detail workarounds for the bug.
When a user syncs a mailbox by using an iOS 6.1-based device, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Client Access server (CAS) and Mailbox (MBX) server resources are consumed, log growth becomes excessive, memory and CPU use may increase significantly, and server performance is affected. Additionally, Office 365 Exchange Online users receive an error message that resembles the following on an iOS 6.1-based device: Cannot Get Mail, The connection to the server failed.
Microsoft suggested a few workarounds for the issue while it waits for Apple to fix the bug. First, it informed customers to “not process Calendar items such as meeting requests on iOS 6.1 devices. Also, immediately restart the iOS 6.1 device.” If problems with Exchange continue, Microsoft recommended and provided instructions for removing and recreating the device partnership, creating a custom throttling policy for iOS 6.1 users, or blocking iOS 6.1 users entirely.
Microsoft said it is working with Apple to resolve the issue and recommended customers “open an Enterprise Support case with Apple”:
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