iCloud Private Relay Experiencing Outage

[cwwilson]

It's crazy how often this thing goes down.

 

[jgleigh]

Looks like Protect Mail Activity uses the same backend service cause it has been intermittent the last two days as well.

 

[AF_APPLETALK]

Ido about you guys but I have been running into too much lag with that service, turned it off recently.

 

[cmtw]

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It's weird because it works on my Mac and iPhone , but not on my iPad , just got another notice right now

Weird, my notification said specifically that it wouldn't be available until tomorrow...

 

[rjjacobson]

Yep same here for both my iPhone and MacBook Pro but on my M4 iPad Pro testing the beta I had just to turn the limit ip address tracking on in WiFi settings and now the private relay works with it weird huh?

ipad:

iPhone :

 

[Promostyle]

Was wondering what that was. Restarting my phone seemed to be the fix for now.

 

[coffeemilktea]

I disabled mine for the moment... but how am I going to look at suspicious websites on my workplace's WiFi now? 😩

 

[khurtwilliams]

Me, since this morning (EST).

 

[Rradcircless]

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It's weird because it works on my Mac and iPhone , but not on my iPad , just got another notice right now

My iPhone's Safari isn't working but iPad and MacBook are.

 

[Chungry]

This type of service offering is hard. Surprised this doesn’t catch them out more often. But hey they got the App Store piece figured out. I’d probably be irritated at the inconvenience if I used this. AdGuard DNS working well even on the betas.

I’m guessing the status page is all green because as much as Apple struggles with services they struggle with the transparency around them more

Edit: holy cow this is a first the status page lists this. Wonder why their mass locking of accounts, a bigger deal all around, went un-acknowledged. Troubling

 

[coolfactor]

Found it interesting that two MBP's that site right next to each other and have the same Public IP, only one got the notice that Private Relay wasn't working. I checked the one that didn't get the notice and Private Relay was working.

Each machine establishes its own "secure tunnel". It's possible that Private Relay is just being flakey and not down entirely. There's not a single server that hosts it... it's spread across many servers in several data centres, so some may be having issues while others are not.

 

[Chungry]

Each machine establishes its own "secure tunnel". It's possible that Private Relay is just being flakey and not down entirely. There's not a single server that hosts it... it's spread across many servers in several data centres, so some may be having issues while others are not.

Propagation issues can be prickly. There’s tons of history on how a wayward entry in a routing table, allowed to spread, knocked whole locales offline.

 

[Böhme417]

This morning around 11AM PST, I was having trouble loading remote content in Mail but it eventually resolved... sometime around 11:45 AM or so.

Since yesterday around non PST, Safari didn't want to load anything on my iPhone. Since other browsers were working, in the evening it occurred to me to toggle private relay off and on, which seemed to have fixed it at that time. Then today I got a notification saying it was not available and "Your iPhone will be able to use private relay again tomorrow".

Me, since this morning (EST).

How are you people on standard time? Am I in the wrong alternative universe?

 

[JordanCautious]

Happened to me around that time on my iPad. I was scared my iPad Pro was broken or something. For some reason, my apps weren’t working properly (like YouTube and Headway) unless I turned off relay. Luckily, I figured it out myself after resetting my internet.

 

[Jim Lahey]

Nope. It literally had this message saying it’s out of order (unavailable) and you can use it again tomorrow. See the notification here. It was so odd I screenshotted it lol.

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Same here. It's now tomorrow. Same notification.

Fine on iPhone. Allegedly.

 

[3304614]

Okay. Enough of that for today. It’s working, it’s not working, it’s working, it’s not working… I’m just turning off (and leaving off) Private Relay until tomorrow.

 

[patjem]

Apparently Apple Health is also affected. Since 2 days the app hangs on my iPhone. Even though I disconnected Private Relay. Restart of the Health app does not work.

 

[sublunar]

Happens to me in a poor or congested cellular signal area sometimes so I do switch it off till tomorrow.

 

[TheOldChevy]

Restarted working when I enabled VPN. Strange ???

 

[davide_eu]

Yep, they re-configured servers.
Load Balancers are still not stable.

Remember Apple Server ?

In a "serious professional" system, rebalancing the servers is transparent to the clients! They don't need to reboot to get the new routing.

You should stop defending them...

 

[philstubbington]

I did wonder. Based in the UK and this seemed to be coming up much more often than usual (switching between mobile, home and work WiFi).

 

[Unsupported]

The outage started for me Wednesday evening (CET). Private relay worked fine on my iPhone but Safari on my MacBook Pro showed the error "The operation couldn't be completed. No such file or directory" (NSPOSIXErrorDomain:2). Firefox was unable to find any website. The Apple system status page showed everything working.

Because it was working on the iPhone I assumed the problem was with the MacBook, so I rebooted in Safe mode which did seem to resolve the issue, but that was most likely pure coincidence.

I searched here and elsewhere without finding any news about problems with Private Relay, even when the outage happened again yesterday, Thursday evening (CET). Again rebooting in Safe Mode did resolve the issue, for a while.

It's "good" that I finally know it's not my fault, but annoyed it's taken so long to become public knowledge, and that I didn't see any notifications from Apple as some people have.

 

[DanielBr]

I've had this issue 2-3 days ago.

 

[ashleykaryl]

I had this last night and now it seems to be back again, button to a lesser extent. The part I found strange last night was that it seemed to be affecting other apps as well, and I thought iCloud relay only worked with Safari.

 

[GDMcG]

Since yesterday around noon PST, Safari didn't want to load anything on my iPhone. Since other browsers were working, in the evening it occurred to me to toggle private relay off and on, which seemed to have fixed it at that time. Then today I got a notification saying it was not available and "Your iPhone will be able to use private relay again tomorrow".

I was having issues with mail content loading privately this morning around 6:00 AM EDT and went to private relay and tried to toggle on and also received the message "Your iPhone will be able to use private relay again tomorrow" which I thought was odd, Googled it and ended up here.