iMessage suffering from a widespread outage, many users unable to send/receive messages

Update: Reports of the outage are slowing down, although it’s unclear if issues are entirely resolved. Apple has yet to update its status page.

It appears that Apple’s iMessage is suffering from widespread issues this evening. While Apple has yet to acknowledge the issue on its system status page, users on Twitter have been reporting issues for the past hour, so much so that iMessage is trending on the social network right now.

Users report that their iMessages are not being delivered, delivering as both an iMessage and an SMS, and being delivered more than once, even after the initial message was received and responded to. Other users report that iMessages are taking an abnormally long amount of time to send, while many images sent via iMessage won’t deliver at all. Some users report that a simple restart fixes their iMessage issues, at least briefly, while others say that turning iMessage on and off in the Settings app also helps.

Some users report no issues with iMessage. Apple has previously acknowledged iMessage outages on its status page, noting that in 2013 that one affected 30 percent of users. Earlier this month, iCloud suffered from a pair of outages.

You can view the tweets of many upset iMessage users below. We’ll update this post if or when Apple updates its system status to acknowledge the issues. Apple’s other services such as the iTunes Store and iCloud appear to be fine at this point.

https://twitter.com/nutritionpapi_/status/613231410837614592

https://twitter.com/KimberlyRein/status/613210775235137537

iMessage wtf😤 i hate that green shit

— 2G (@gxldIEp) June 23, 2015

What's wrong with iMessage ?

— Arpine Mirzakhanyan (@arrrpp) June 23, 2015

Everybody's iMessage trippin , I thought it was just my phone

— charisma (@_charismaaas) June 23, 2015

Tf is going on with iMessage 😭

— michelle 🤍 (@michellecs99) June 23, 2015

I'm about to punch my iMessage in the throat

— Loso (@LosoRuiz) June 23, 2015

Apple sucks… Stupid iMessage

— Noah Brambila (@BrambilaNoah) June 23, 2015

Okay so it's not just my iMessage that's acting foo

— Kat (@BiteSize_KitKat) June 23, 2015

I thought my phone's iMessage was the only one not working, what is up with Apple lately. resetting, shutting off, iMessage going down. hmm

— scuba steve (@melbottjer) June 23, 2015

https://twitter.com/Maggiee_J/status/613212529263644672

Why is my iMessage messing up 😕

— Christian (@cgut15) June 23, 2015

Imessage is error af right now

— 𝐅 (@fahianandya) June 23, 2015

https://twitter.com/kate29200/status/613213611775893504

https://twitter.com/goin_hamm47/status/613215453616472064

https://twitter.com/TheColtonGraham/status/613215392249417728

https://twitter.com/kianaa_17/status/613216417366708224

@9to5mac My fiancée's phone was saying Not Delivered like 5 minutes after sending but I was still getting them…

— Kyle Cardno (@twitch2021) June 23, 2015