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iCloud and Many Other Apple Services Are Down or Experiencing Issues [Resolved]

for me my Mac became glacial. Finder totally unresponsive. Tried everything, safe reboot reinstall OS, nothing helped.
i theh restarted in a admin account and all was fine, so it was something in my normal account set up. I did also notice an iCloud warning on my restarts that asked me to open my icloud pref pane. Doing so removed the warning but other than that the mac, in particular the finder just was unresponsive. This morning I see the icloud outage news item on this site and thought maybe if I log out of icloud it will fix things. Sure enough, logging out of icloud resolved all issues. Logged in again to see if it was fixed but no, logging in to iCloud killed responsiveness again. Contacted support and they viewed my screen and confirmed my report. They simply said wait a while as the iclud issues had been resolved but may take a while to filter theough to all accounts.
so if anyone are having Finder issues that just cropped up over the last few hours, try logging out of icloud and see if that resolves them. Weirdl my mac mini, which is also logged into iCloud is having no issues. The mini is intel my main mac is M1.
 
I'm wondering if anyone else is having a problem similar to this. For some reason, when I send SMS messages, the green line slides across the top of the text window as though it's trying to send, then after about a minute, I get the message Not delivered., This only happens when I use SMS. I can use iMessage just fine now. The issue started this afternoon. Anyone else encounter this one and if so, any tips on solving it
 
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things still aren't 100%
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Some services are working normally. but others are severely degraded. I have a feeling iCloud is backlogged with changes.

It took over an hour for a reminder change I made to sync over. All the while I kept seeing reject messages from the iCloud servers. I think they are throttling because all the devices that couldn’t connect in those few hours iCloud was down, suddenly connected all at once.

What is odd, is almost 12 hours later it’s still not back to normal.

I tried contacting Apple Support, but apparently all they do now is Google Apple support documents, email the link to you and hang up.
 
As a person who frequently has to make DNS changes and wait for it to propagate, I felt bad for the person at Apple hitting the ‘apply changes’ button, watching in horror as it propagated, then changing it, and waiting for it to propagate again.

Every minute feels like an hour!
 
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Morac said:
Some services are working normally. but others are severely degraded. I have a feeling iCloud is backlogged with changes.

It took over an hour for a reminder change I made to sync over. All the while I kept seeing reject messages from the iCloud servers. I think they are throttling because all the devices that couldn’t connect in those few hours iCloud was down, suddenly connected all at once.

What is odd, is almost 12 hours later it’s still not back to normal.

I tried contacting Apple Support, but apparently all they do now is Google Apple support documents, email the link to you and hang up.
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What I find odd is that it's SMS I'm having problems with. iMessage works fine, but any time I attempt to send a text to, say, an Android user, they don't get there. However, when they send me a text from their Android phone, it arrives just fine
 
Yesterday I was trying to help my brother set up his Apple TV HD, we had a slow blinking light when we plugged it in like it was trying to do an update and now we are stuck with the rapid blinking light after a short Apple logo. It was working fine previously.

I think the outage bricked it. Now we have to go buy a usb c to usb a cable and try to do a restore from my computer. :mad:
 
mikerahl said:
What I find odd is that it's SMS I'm having problems with. iMessage works fine, but any time I attempt to send a text to, say, an Android user, they don't get there. However, when they send me a text from their Android phone, it arrives just fine
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Now it appears the messages do send, and are received, but the phone reports them as "not received". So it seems like it's a cosmetic bug, but an annoying one
 
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mikerahl said:
Now it appears the messages do send, and are received, but the phone reports them as "not received". So it seems like it's a cosmetic bug, but an annoying one
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Unlike iMessage, SMS has no delivery or read confirmation, so the phone has no idea of the message was received or not. It shouldn’t be saying one way or the other.
 
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Unlike iMessage, SMS has no delivery or read confirmation, so the phone has no idea of the message was received or not. It shouldn’t be saying one way or the other.
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Agreed, that's what's weird here. Usually I get a sound indicating the message has left. Now, I get a green bar on the top that goes from left to right and gets stuck at about 90%, then times out, telling me "not delivered"
 
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All my services are back to working, including Reminder syncing, with one notable exception.

Safari isn’t syncing bookmarks, tab groups, start page or iCloud tabs between my devices. That was working prior to the outage.
 
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Looks like it’s down again on Tuesday, I can’t access the store, system status says everything is up
 
There are still issues — I am unable to download app updates today on a fast wi-fi connection. edit: now working again. edit no. 2: app updates still not working on my wife's iPhone 8 on same wi-fi connection
 
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Since MR is not all over this again with new headline maybe it’s only in certain regions.
 
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