We’re hearing word of sporadic iMessage outages this weekend

- Jul. 22nd 2012 2:12 pm PT

Although Apple’s iCloud System Status thinks all is good, clearly not all is well in Maiden. We received a load of tips over the past day or so claiming iMessages are randomly not going through, people are not able to sign in (“activation issues”), and messages are randomly deleting. Others are not having any issues (or are not aware of any). Here are just a few of our readers’ responses:

@9to5mac Serious bug affecting iMessage and FaceTime. Aren’t working or are impossible to activate. Lots of people are having this issue !
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Gilles de Stexhe (@Yil2201) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac sporadic my a**!, imessages and facetime down all day!!!
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(@elguille78) July 22, 2012

“@9to5mac: Thanks everyone. iMessage issues appear to be sporadic.”it is not!! 2 outta 4 devices in house down!
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Ann (@ashjam8800) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac Randomly received about 8 iMessages this morning from a conversation from earlier this week in which I'd never received a response.
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Andrew Gwin  (@andrewgwin) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac Sending failure #iMessage
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Jari (@jaritheone) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac I'm having activation issues on iMessage.
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Jairo Duque Escobar (@jairoduquemusic) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac thought it was just me lol
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sukvinder dass (@sukvinderdass) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac can't send or receive iMessages on my iPhone, but my iPad works just fine.
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Phillip Cashmere (@UncPhil) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac iMessage isn't working for me... Facetime works!
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Carter Hatcher (@CarterWPS) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac i have!!! in mexico!!! i can't send imessage to my friends!
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Carlos Calderón  (@japocalde) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac always had issues with it. Messages doubling up. Now my bf got rid of his iPhone I had to turn it off, texts were still going to it
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Joanna Robbins (@FondantDesign) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac My is not working too.
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Alvis Wu (@AlvisWuABC7) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac Friend of mine having problems to login to iMessage and FaceTime on his new iPad. iCloud works fine tho.
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Christian Wallbom (@Christian_W1971) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac mine isn't working..
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Carter Hatcher (@CarterWPS) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac cant send messages... :(
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Chief Attila (@chiefattila) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac my iMessages delete themselves like every hour. Only started today.
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Matt Gibstein (@mattgibstein) July 22, 2012

@mattyb1994 @9to5mac how do you fix it? I did this :(
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sophie wilson (@sophiewilson34) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac Stuck on activation :/
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Ramo  (@Ramo619) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac waiting for activation
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G-off G (@GEEOFF_G) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac delay here in Detroit
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Marino (@acumarino) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac i have not been able to send-receive iMessages all day
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Tyler Corrigan (@TylerCorrigan) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac All good in da hood here
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Daniel Bennett (@Ravenatic) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac not receiving picture iMessages in the past couple hours.
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Stephen (@istephen45003) July 22, 2012

@Nkapoor124 @9to5mac yep..issues with both. I’ve been hearing it too
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Abdalaziz Kahil (@The_KnightWing) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac major issues few hours ago. Couldn't send pics.
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Walid Hajj (@walidhajj) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac Messages on my Mac kept telling me I had 2-3 unread messages. It would randomly increase, then decrease. Weird.
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Howard Pinsky (@IceflowStudios) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac I couldn't send an "iMessage" about two hours ago here in the uk. Whats the deal?? Apple rebooting there system before osx ml ??
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Dean Gibbons (@DeanGibbons) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac Hit or miss for me all day long.
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Michael Seiber™ (@MichaelSeiber_) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac Trying to log in at my mac on mountain lion but it fails
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Martin Kollaard (@Martinkollaard) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac glad to hear it's not just us!
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Ryan B. (@ryankboyd) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac iMessage working, not FaceTime
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DJ Jenkins (@DJJenkins) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac I’ve received no iMessages using my phone number all day, turned iMessage off and on again and it’s stuck on waiting for activation
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Matthew Batey (@mattyb1994) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac 02 uk confirming an issue over the phone and lots of calls into another well known carrier
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Anthony (@iAnthh) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac not more broken than usual.
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Simon van de Web™ (@DirtyDouchebag) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac o/ having the eternal "waiting for activation"
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Carlos (@carloslaso) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac As well something wrong is going on with the iMessage on the Mac.
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Anatoliy Gatt (@AnatoliyGatt) July 22, 2012

Apple needs to fix this shit. Unacceptable. “@9to5mac: We’re hearing word of sporadic iMessage outages this weekend goo.gl/fb/tQBRt”
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Matt Gibstein (@mattgibstein) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac #iMessageoutage Yep, all weekend for the wife and I; UK
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Richard Hubbuck (@richardhubbuck) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac was bad to the point where I had to turn it off. Some very important messages never got delivered.
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(@chumeet) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac is not sporadic at all, I've been trying to macking it work for hours now, and nothing...
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Carlos Rivera (@Cajarima) July 22, 2012

My iMessage conversations have been deleting themselves randomly for the past 24 hours. Has anyone been seeing this? Cc/ @9to5mac
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Matt Gibstein (@mattgibstein) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac Randomly received about 8 iMessages this morning from a conversation from earlier this week in which I'd never received a response.
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Andrew Gwin  (@andrewgwin) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac Sending failure #iMessage
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Jari (@jaritheone) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac thought it was just me lol
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sukvinder dass (@sukvinderdass) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac my girlfriend can't receive my iMessages for 3 hours already, it says "delivered" but she never got them.
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Anton Klimov (@tonique) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac Imessage not workin for me all day
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Playboye (@Playboye1) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac sending images doesn't work for me
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Jaspreet Dhanjan (@Nouht) July 22, 2012

@9to5mac any idea when iMessage will be back up? I can't activate either. Just went to local apple store and they confirmed servers are down
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Vince Lamartina (@vincelamartina) July 22, 2012