Twitter was also down today, both Apple and Twitter use Amazon Web Services. Just something to keep in mind.
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Apple Says App Store, iMessage, iCloud Drive, and Other iCloud Services Are Experiencing Issues [Update: Fixed]
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I had problems today that I've been spending a lot of time trying to diagnose. I think this explains part of my problem, but I'm still having other iCloud-related problems. In addition to a lot of bizarre internet problems in general over the last 2 weeks, affecting not only me, but the other two people in my household.
I just now had an AppleTV failure; after clicking out of YouTube some brief message flashed (something about my iCloud account) and then I lost all my viewing history and it seems to think I don't have an AppleTV+ subscription (which I do). I'm wondering if it may be related to these issues?
Oddly it does seem to indicate my iCloud account is connected, and all my apps are there, but the home screen is the default of 'things to watch' that new users see.
Oddly it does seem to indicate my iCloud account is connected, and all my apps are there, but the home screen is the default of 'things to watch' that new users see.
You might find this hard to believe, but the number of MR forum posters is a micro fraction of the 1.5 billion iOS and Mac users worldwide.
Moreover, the issue was resolved, so why would it matter at this point?
Can't unsee the headline. How bout we demand a higher standard of journalism, instead of the "if you don't like it, don't read it..." excuse.
Once an update occurs on iOS, WatchOS, iPadOS - how do you actually cancel or “rollback” exactly? Hmmm.
as best I know you can only Vance an update already on progress on macOS. And WindowsOS (PC).
Unless I'm mistaken/dense, Apple doesn't make it particularly clear to its users the status of their cloud-based services. I happened upon the web page earlier today when troubleshooting problems I was having and an internet search turned up an older non-Apple.com website which linked to it. So if/when Apple gets their act together and makes it super-obvious for end-users to know/see the status of their cloud-based services, then I think it's *very* helpful for 3rd party websites, like Macrumors, to post this as news.
Also, even if the issue had been *completely* resolved by the time that Macrumors heard about it and had their post ready to publish, I think it would *still* be worth them posting about, because it helps to keep Apple accountable for this. For a lot of Apple device users an occasional outage for a few hours might be no big deal. But for some, iCloud being extremely reliable and up-to-date can be extremely important. And, at the very least, even average users would benefit from knowing if, for example, Google's cloud-based services have 99.whatever% uptime while Apple's iCloud might only be 95% uptime.
Apple has the resources to do this right. In recent years, they've been quite sloppy/lazy with some of their offerings while still charging premium prices as if they're the gold standard on everything they do.
MacRumors is trying to tell people that don’t know about this that Apple is experiencing iCloud and other issues. People may think something is wrong with their device and might take it into Apple. And did you see the (fixed) on the name of the thread?
There is always going to be problems with stuff. Nothing is ever going to be perfect.
I’m having an issue where I delete any emails or messages from my phone and it doesn’t automatically sync with iCloud. The files stay there and still shows the same space used. Does anyone know how to fix this or an easy workaround?
I don't know if this is related, but it's suspiciously coincidental. Two Macs on my network for two different users just had their iCloud synced passwords wiped out today. Most email accounts stopped working, no website passwords auto-populate, Keychains are locked. The works.
Anyone else experiencing this?
Anyone else experiencing this?
