Article: iCloud Down For Many Users (Update: Running Again)

[Akshay Masand]

Apple's iCloud service seems to be experiencing some technical difficulties as many users are reporting the service to be not working properly. According to Apple's System Status support page, the service is down for some users. Apple has mentioned the following: "Users may be unable to access iCloud services. Normal service will be restored ASAP" as seen in the picture above.

It currently hasn't been specified why this issue has risen but rest assured, Apple is working to quickly resolve the matter. I would imagine the issue would be resolved as soon as possible as iCloud not working properly would probably anger and frustrate quite a number of iOS device owners.

Have any of you tried connecting to iCloud recently? Were you able to or is it not working for you either? Let us know in the comments below!

Source: Apple Support (Thanks to MMi user FBIRyuJin for sending this in)

Update: The service is officially back up:

[connor.canty2]

Yeah. I was not able to access iCloud for a few hours (1-3 max). But it's been fixed for me already. I was frustrated quickly, and even made an appointment for express lane help, and they won't let you cancel those. haha Is it just a #FailApple day?

[bigdrdok]

In the process of stalking my iphone friends I found out that "Find Friends" app isn't working neither :-( 😓

[jamesgunaca]

Yet again Apple proves they don't know how to run software in the cloud.

[ChSchuldiner]

Yet again Apple proves they don't know how to run software in the cloud.

How have they done that? EVERY other company that uses a cloud service that needs to update something turns theirs off as well.

[Johnnytucats]

Google is still working.

[L00i3]

Yet again Apple proves they don't know how to run software in the cloud.

Everything that relies on servers connected to the internet goes down sometimes...Cloud storage, websites, whatever....Just cuz they have a compelling service, nobody can claim (reasonably) 1000% uptime....Just sayin

[TooSlo]

How have they done that? EVERY other company that uses a cloud service that needs to update something turns theirs off as well.

No, any company worth their salt will have redundancy in place for outages.

[tabit]

i was down for a couple of hours but now its good. thanks for status page, i never knew it existed

[sziklassy]

Everything that relies on servers connected to the internet goes down sometimes...Cloud storage, websites, whatever....Just cuz they have a compelling service, nobody can claim (reasonably) 1000% uptime....Just sayin

Agreed, however I have been having nothing but issues with icloud email since the beginning. I randomly get "your password is wrong" messages. My solution was to finally delete my icloud email since it was more annoying than anything.

No, any company worth their salt will have redundancy in place for outages.

Drop box and google must not be worth their salt then. I have witnessed outages with both.

[frjuan]

Google is still working.

Yawn.... Is Siri working for you though???

[iFrosty]

Ummm .... Im guessing no one got the memo?Apple sent an email (To Devs) saying they are deleting ALL icloud files on Saturday (Even though today isnt saturday, they might have started earlier)

[TooSlo]

Yawn.... Is Siri working for you though???

Siri has never worked in any meaningful way for me on my 4s.

[fbiryujin]

It started working for me again about 20 minutes after I sent the tip in Apple trying to make me look bad *grumble grumble* :P

[runey71]

No, any company worth their salt will have redundancy in place for outages.

I'm pretty sure your statement just said EVERY company that uses cloud isn't worth squat. There isn't a single company out there that hasn't had 'cloud' outages. That includes Amazon and Google.

[DaLsim]

Apple make new junks and sell for $,$$$, But cant fix a little update without us telling them they have problems with there new junks...