iCloud Mail, iCloud Web Apps, Stocks, Game Center, TestFlight and Apple News Experiencing Outage [Update: Fixed]

[MacRumors]

Apple's iCloud Mail service and its iCloud Web Apps are currently experiencing an outage, according to Apple's System Status page.

Impacted users are unable to use iCloud Mail or iCloud Web Apps, and the services have been down since 4:29 p.m. Eastern Time.

Apple says that only some users are affected, so not everyone will experience issues. We'll update this article when iCloud Mail and Apple's iCloud Web Apps are up and running.

Update 5:50 p.m. ET: Stocks, Game Center, and Apple News are also down.

Update 2, 5:52 p.m. ET: Apple has also added TestFlight, and iWork for iCloud to the list of services experiencing issues.

Update 3, 6:15 p.m. ET: The outages with iCloud Mail, iCloud Web Apps, TestFlight, and Game Center have been resolved. Apple News and Stocks are still experiencing issues.

Update 4, 6:30 p.m. ET: Photos and Game Center are again listed as having issues. Apple News and Stocks are also still down.

Update 5, 7:30 p.m. ET: Everything is operational except for Game Center.

Update 6, 8:15 p.m. ET: All of Apple's services are back up and running.

Article Link: iCloud Mail, iCloud Web Apps, Stocks, Game Center, TestFlight and Apple News Experiencing Outage [Update: Fixed]

 

[Stay_Resonant]

So it's not just me. Cool.

 

[roar08]

So it's not just me. Cool.

Nope, not just you.

 

[ghostface147]

I assume that would be why I randomly got a pop up asking to verify my Apple account in settings.

 

[Crowbot]

I think it's so cool that we have the "System Status" page.

 

[sw1tcher]

Apple's iCloud Mail service and its iCloud Web Apps are currently experiencing an outage, according to Apple's System Status page.

Damn, another outage? 2 outages in the same day. That hasn't happened in a while.

Apple's like "Eh, why wait for September. August is good."

I challenge you to provide actual fact based proof that Apple has had an outage every month from January 2023-August 2024, or admit your statement is something you dreamed up.

*cough cough* 🤣

 

[scrapesleon]

apple sure like having outages reminds me of a certain internet provider

 

[Mr. Heckles]

apple sure like having outages reminds me of a certain internet provider

All of them? They all have outages. There is not such thing of any provider having 100% uptime.

 

[cruelfoolish]

They must be very busy today

 

[CrysisDeu]

I think it's so cool that we have the "System Status" page.

Lol it’s not cool if Apple doesn’t have it

 

[DotCom2]

So it's not just me. Cool.

Yeah, I thought it was just me too. Glad I saw this. I was just changing out my UPS battery and thought "NOW WHAT!" lol

 

[drumcat]

Frustrating that this is a common occurrence. Not a good look for Apple or AWS.

 

[Levina]

First time this happened for me. A bit scary as initially the System Status page showed nothing wrong, so I assumed it was something on my side, without a clue as to what it might be.

 

[Premium1]

"It just works." L O L. Some more of that quality they always like to harp on..

 

[roar08]

Looks like whatever the underlying cause is might be degrading other services now.

 

[antiprotest]

First time this happened for me. A bit scary as initially the System Status page showed nothing wrong, so I assumed it was something on my side, without a clue as to what it might be.

The status page is often very late, usually later than Twitter and news sites. Apple should just have someone check Twitter and manually update their status page. It'd be an improvement.

 

[lkrupp]

No problems in the midwest so far.

 

[roar08]

iCloud mail just started working — even though it's not updated on the status page.

 

[trip1ex]

Apple Support pages were down too.

 

[Rayansb]

Things are "glowing".

 

[klasma]

I think it's so cool that we have the "System Status" page.

“Stocks - Performance” — I’m not sure Apple is really to blame here.

 

[trajen]

I’m pretty sure iMessage is down. iOS 18.1 latest beta. iMessages will not send if it’s a photo or link or video!

 

[t0rqx]

taking down servers to save money. Classic Apple move.

You pay premium prices for services.

Edit: Received info they were implementing AI to their services and it did some weird coding.

 

[citysnaps]

"It just works." L O L. Some more of that quality they always like to harp on..

Holy smokes! You mean there isn't 100.0% perfection 100.0% of the time when tech and humans are involved?

 

[Apple Mac Daz]

Mail not resolved for me just says account error the connection to the server failed