Apple confirms another iMessage, FaceTime outage (Update: Fixed)

Apple confirms service disruption

Update: 12:30PM ET – Apple’s status website also saying the issues are resolved

For the second time this week, Apple has confirmed that iMessage and FaceTime are experiencing hiccups, albeit nearly three hours after users first started reporting issues.

Any regular user of the service can speak for how regular of an occurrence this is, and Apple is consistently slow to confirm any service disruption.

Notably, when Apple does admit any downtime, it typically downplays the issue while our own experience and that of the good people on Twitter reflects otherwise.

Maybe Apple doesn’t know what a system status page means. Maybe it is a blog aggregation service:”lots of blogs reporting iMessage outage”

— Seth Weintraub (@llsethj) April 12, 2013

Apple: Don’t look to our laggy system status page to see if iCloud is down. Check the blogs which are an hour ahead of our reporting system.

— Seth Weintraub (@llsethj) April 12, 2013

@jlgolson The reporting tool is a bigger embarrassment than the outages themselves

— Seth Weintraub (@llsethj) April 12, 2013

Can iMessage work? That would be cool

— Adam Zarcone (@AdamZarcone) April 12, 2013

https://twitter.com/kraymoney/status/322735363418365952

https://twitter.com/JoshLongman_/status/322735363158331392

Why is iMessage screwing up again?!? 😡😡

— Amanda 🏁 (@Mandy14__) April 12, 2013

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