Apple Pulls iOS 14.3, watchOS 7.2, and tvOS 14.3 Updates Amid Slew of Server Issues

[sniffies]

Apparently Apple is experiencing a Big Sur-ge of problems

 

[3587]

Richest company in the world... just struggling! Their stuff has been pretty glitchy lately... probably need to slow down a bit and smooth things out... just a notch!

 

[MacFan39]

Who's ready for the servers to crash as soon as they come up from all the traffic?

 

[applicious84]

It's because they're running their servers with m1 processors now...this is bad news after that announcement, lol

 

[poematik13]

iT'S INSANE THAT APPS NEED TO PHONE HOME TO SERVERS JUST TO OPEN

I hate hate hate hate where macOS is going. I hate app culture I hate subscription culture I hate smart things

 

[CJ Dorschel]

“Instructions: Servers require Apple’s new chargers (sold separately)”

 

[nylon]

Looks like their servers might be under sustained attack.

 

[stevet]

I think they pulled Big Sur too, I am getting an error trying to download it after it taking 3 hrs to download 300MB

 

[rjohnstone]

Looks like their servers might be under sustained attack.

Users frantically checking for the update.

 

[q64ceo]

iT'S INSANE THAT APPS NEED TO PHONE HOME TO SERVERS JUST TO OPEN

I hate hate hate hate where macOS is going. I hate app culture I hate subscription culture I hate smart things

Its part of the security of macOS. It phones home to see if the software is malicious or not. This has been a feature of macOS since the Lion release.

 

[xxray]

You guys do realize it’s 2020 with most Apple employees working from home right? It’s not like this happens often. Have some empathy and humble yourselves.

 

[midkay]

Wow, I mean, there can't have been that many first-day Big Sur downloaders for there to be this many server issues.

Obviously there’s a lot else going on than that. Floods of pre-orders for the biggest MacBook performance upgrades in history, floods of people continually checking statuses for the just-now-shipping iPhone 12 mini and Pro Max orders… plus launching Big Sur to the public, and all these new betas all at once. Probably the busiest day for their servers in the history of the company.

 

[N0ughtsAndCr0sses]

You guys do realize it’s 2020 with most Apple employees working from home right? It’s not like this happens often. Have some empathy and humble yourselves.

Let me correct that for ya, buddy,


[...] Apple employees *sleeping* from home....

 

[Psychicbob]

Just one more thing... Oh, maybe not.

 

[q64ceo]

Obviously there’s a lot else going on than that. Floods of pre-orders for the biggest MacBook performance upgrades in history, floods of people continually checking statuses for the just-now-shipping iPhone 12 mini and Pro Max orders… plus launching Big Sur to the public, and all these new betas all at once. Probably the busiest day for their servers in the history of the company.

I believe this surpasses the MobileMe debacle of 2008

 

[Unregistered 4U]

Wow, I mean, there can't have been that many first-day Big Sur downloaders for there to be this many server issues.

There are bots galore hitting websites hard trying to snag up Playstation 5’s today. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s overloading some nodes.

 

[iVoid]

This seemed to have caused a lot of issues at my company. At least two dozen people had problems with their Macs coming to a crawl and/or apps just bouncing in the dock. Really does seem the notary server issue might have caused this issue.

Fortunately, it seems to be resolved (or at least mitigated) now.

 

[Banglazed]

Update is back now

 

[Unregistered 4U]

For anyone getting a phone tomorrow, remember, if you update to the beta now, there's a few extra steps before you can backup/restore to your new phone. Remove the beta profile for now, get your new phone, restore to it, THEN put the beta back on

 

[GregJohn]

The beta is available OTA again
at lease on my iPad Pro (2018) it’s downloading 14.3 now

 

[x-evil-x]

Something something Steve Jobs something something

20 years from now there will still be people saying Steve wouldn't of allowed this.
back in the good olll days of 2010 the only thing Steve allowed was faulty antenna bands kiddos. Free bumpers for all.

 

[monster620ie]

it is downloading for me now.... 6gig so far. '

opps wrong forum... thought it was about Big Sur

 

[GlennFisher]

Ruh-roh, Raggy.

Lmao

 

[Unregistered 4U]

20 years from now there will still be people saying Steve wouldn't of allowed this.
back in the good olll days of 2010 the only thing Steve allowed was faulty antenna bands kiddos. Free bumpers for all.

No, they’ll be saying Tim wouldn’t allow whatever the new guy is doing.

 

[coolfactor]

I was wondering when I couldn't do a search in Apple Maps today. Just stalled at "Searching...". I immediately switched to Google Maps to pull up the GPS navigation that I needed.