Apple's iCloud Service Experiencing Outage

[MacRumors]

Some of Apple's iCloud services appear to be experiencing an outage, based on a multitude of reports that MacRumors has received and hundreds of complaints on Twitter.

According to the Apple System Status page, there are issues with iCloud Backup, iCloud Mail, iCloud Storage Upgrades, iCloud.com, iMessage, and Game Center. Some users are unable to log into the iCloud website, and others are having trouble with app-specific passwords or are seeing a message about an issue with connecting to Apple ID servers.

There are reports about the iCloud issues from multiple countries, though it is not clear if all users are affected at this time. The iCloud outage has been ongoing since yesterday afternoon.

Apple earlier this morning said that the iCloud outage had been fixed and the company updated the System Status page, but after continued complaints from users and ongoing connectivity problems, Apple again changed the System Status page to note several issues. We'll update this article when Apple is able to address the iCloud outage.

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[jared52]

Yep. Picked an awesome time to upgrade to an iPhone 13. Took forever in store to deactivate Find My and setting up my new phone is taking forever to send 2FA.

 

[hovscorpion12]

Yup. Just got a notification to "update Apple ID" Error with unable to reach Apple ID server. Thought I was going crazy.

 

[jbachandouris]

My AW7 has been asking me to log in several times now. Thought it was lousy WiFi.

Apple Music timed out as well.

App updates not working either.

 

[TheYayAreaLiving 🎗️]

My Apple Watch Series 7 keep asking me to input my password in. Back to back!

A restart to the iCloud server is desperately needed. 🔋🔌

 

[Aquaporin]

I wish there was a post mortem for why these things happen. I was having issues on the iTMS last night.

 

[winxmac]

iCloud Backup, iCloud Mail, Photos, now showing with issue on status page...

EDIT: checked the developer site and is on dark mode, wish the same for the consumer site...

 

[Goodeye]

Yep and Apples official support on Twitter is acting/of the belief it’s just individual local issues and not a widespread issue.

 

[Shirasaki]

Hah. So far so ok on my side but holy. Are even inside apple they are wishing software will just “magically fix” on their own? Or they are secretly experimenting AI maintained software or sth?

Given apple rarely publish updates about outage and based on last developer unhappy about iCloud article, I feel apple is caring less and less about cloud storage and the fundamentals of each service, but more and more on getting shiny new stuff with maybe just enough polishing. No wonder some services are cheaper than other counterparts.

 

[telo123]

I was going crazy, sheesh!

 

[cmaier]

Yep. Having all sorts of problems -iphone keeps asking me to log in but then tells me I’m disconnected and password doesn’t work, and i tried to set up an apple sign-in on a website and that didn’t work either.

 

[Wackery]

Yep. Picked an awesome time to upgrade to an iPhone 13. Took forever in store to deactivate Find My and setting up my new phone is taking forever to send 2FA.

Steve Jobs never would’ve let this happen

 

[August West]

I just tried to log into Apple ID a few minutes ago and it took like 30 seconds to return the fingerprint ID challenge. Then when I authenticatd with my fingerprint it said it couldn't connect.

 

[Wackery]

My Apple Watch Series 7 keep asking me to input my password in. Back to back!

A restart to the iCloud server is desperately needed. 🔋🔌

Someone is trying to dial 911 right now on their apple watch, and apple servers are down, sad

 

[Wackery]

Yep and Apples official support on Twitter is acting/of the belief it’s just individual local issues and not a widespread issue.

Your holding your cloud service incorrectly

 

[Wackery]

The almighty tim cook apple already has all your money from icloud+ Pro bundle tv news music fitness+ (probably missing a few), why would they care if the service even works.

Wake up Sheapple!
He’s just laughing all the way to the bank.

 

[cmaier]

Someone is trying to dial 911 right now on their apple watch, and apple servers are down, sad

Apple servers have nothing to do with phone calls.

 

[Debaserness]

Some of Apple's iCloud services appear to be experiencing an outage, based on a multitude of reports that MacRumors has received and hundreds of complaints on Twitter.

According to the Apple System Status page, there are issues with iCloud Backup, iCloud Mail, and Photos, but based on the reports, the problems may be even more widespread. Some users are unable to log into the iCloud website, and others are having trouble with app-specific passwords or are seeing a message about an issue with connecting to Apple ID servers.

There are reports about the iCloud issues from multiple countries, though it is not clear if all users are affected at this time. We'll update this article when we know more about the outage or when it is addressed.

Article Link: Apple's iCloud Service Experiencing Outage

I have been unable to log into the iCloud website for over a month. I was escalated all the way up to some iCloud engineering team and had to submit logs from Safari. I have also been unable to Live Collaborate on any iWork document. To me, this seems like an issue that has slowly been working its way to being more widespread.

 

[Aquaporin]

Ah bummer was watching an apple tv show and it crashed.

 

[cmaier]

Wake up Sheapple!

Why are you talking about female apples?

 

[prime17569]

Is this related to the CloudKit issues that developers have been experiencing for a while now? According to some developer posts on Twitter, the CloudKit issues may be related to rate limiting.

Developers Unhappy With Bug Causing iCloud Unreliability

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www.macrumors.com

 

[bobtem]

Gee, I hope iCloud is feeling ok after this experience...

 

[nvmls]

Reliable. That's iCloud.

 

[Debaserness]

Reliable. That's iCloud.

iCloud. 80% of the time it works, every time.

 

[jbachandouris]

Let’s go Apple. It’s been an hour already.