Update: Apple System Status page shows that all outages have been resolved and its services are now back.
It’s not just you, multiple Apple services are currently down. According to the Apple System Status page, some services are facing an outage since 10:32 am PT. Down Detector and many Twitter users pointed out this outage before Apple.
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Update: As of 6.30am PT, Apple had updated its status page as showing all services back to normal. The company said that 40% of users had been affected.
Apple’s system status page is showing a substantial issue with iCloud services, the problems affecting eleven different services and persisting for four hours and counting at the time of writing.
While Apple lists the services as “may be slow for some users,” many users are reporting that the services are either completely unavailable or time-out when attempting to login …
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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
