Tag: Outage

Yesterday Apple online services were unstable or unresponsive for couple of hours. Affected services included iMessage, iCloud (including third-party apps integrations), App Store, iCloud Mail, Apple Music and many others.

Outage also affected Apple Store systems significantly affecting retail sales.

Outage was resolved within hours, Apple did not comment on root causes though.

Apple System Status:

• System Status
• Developer System Status

Reference:

• iCloud and Many Other Apple Services Are Down
• iCloud and Many Other Apple Services Are Down or Experiencing Issues [Resolved]
• PSA: Apple services including iMessage, Apple Music, iCloud, and more are currently down [U]
• Widespread Apple Services Outage

For last several months there were increased number of developers reporting issues with iCloud sync APIs.

Mostly, this results in significant number of 503 errors accessing iCloud APIs.

Some developers who created in-app status panels for iCloud status, see issues.

Apple did not yet come back with resolutions or recommendations.

As of January 26 Apple's System Status shows some issues as resolved.

Reference:

• Developers Unhappy With Bug Causing iCloud Unreliability
• iCloud syncing issues are plaguing third-party apps as Apple stays silent
• Increased iCloud Errors
• Apple's iCloud Service Experiencing Outage
• Some iCloud services are currently down due to unexpected outage