“The iCloud suite of services experienced an outage Tuesday morning, marking yet another period of downtime for Apple’s cloud-based operations,” AppleInsider reports.
“The outage appeared to affect a number of iCloud-based services, including Mail, Find My iPhone, and Find My Friends,” AppleInsider reports. “Users attempting to log in to iCloud.com were also met with a ‘Connection Error’ message that explained that ‘iCloud encountered an error while trying to connect to the server.'”
AppleInsider reports, “The issues appeared to be worldwide as of Tuesday morning”
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MacDailyNews Take: What the heck is going on, Apple?!
Another reason why I’m not totally sold on this cloud stuff.
Rosetta had more value to me than iCloud.
I love it, I use it constantly, and while its relatively new, hiccups can happen. On top of that, it is a free service, one that I find incredible, and mostly dependable. Thanks Apple!
Mostly? Like when you need immediate and critical access or whenever you might possibly could perhaps need it?
Immediate and critical access implies a business need. This is a free consumer product. If you need a business grade product, buy one.
Yup. Always makes me chuckle when people pipe up saying their business is suffering because of an iCloud outage.
It’s a consumer product, if you want to run a business off it, be prepared to suffer outages now and again. It’s not, I repeat NOT, a business grade product.
I would think you were an intelligent person if you could name just three or four of the other products that are more reliable than iCloud.
To start, I don’t care what you think of me. Your estimation of me means nothing. Secondly, I don’t need to look for any such product, you do, at least if you’re as dissatisfied with iCloud as you imply. I’m perfectly happy with iCloud, it’s always worked very well for me.
It’s 10:35 a.m. here and no problem accessing iCloud.
I’m out of business logging in and email. Service sucks.
As Praus said. “This is a free consumer product. If you need a business grade product, buy one.” Perhaps a free consumer email is not what you should be using for business. Besides your customers probably laugh when they see your work email ends in @icloud.com. Domains are inexpensive…
I am hoping that it has to do with bringing on line more of the new server farms. The hand shaking between server farms may have smothered the users bandwidth for a while. Hard to do these things at night when it is world wide.
Bad timing with the quarterly report this evening.
More server farm stories?
Correction—BILLION DOLLAR server farm stories.
It’s when it gets to be a blackberry farm that you need to get worried.
I thought they bought the farm…
No issues noticed today by 16:00 UTC (12:00 EDT). But syncing between two iOS devices seems quicker than I’m used to here: Calendar 25s/40s, Contacts 20s.
A bit of BlackBerryitus?
I got said message when starting an iCloud Backup on my iPod touch, but within less than a minute everything resumed and has been going fine since.
Not exactly a meltdown.
9:40 CST. No issues.
Growing pains perhaps? Maybe this is what happens when the proverbial underdog becomes the proverbial big dog. I have had iCloud outages, but not too frequently. I am more concerned about how this stuff drives perception of what I still view as one of the finest companies.
Apple hasn’t been an underdog for years. Among other reasons, underdogs don’t rake in the majority of a market’s profits.
No issues. 7:49 am Pacific
Try to get to iCloud through a browser… No go, but I can access my my through the mail app (iPhone or Mac), Find iPhone app works fine as well. 11:01 EST
A worldwide outage for all services needs to be a five 9’s thing (less than six minutes a year). Regional outages for all services need to be a four 9’s thing (less than 53 minutes a year). Individual services within a single region can be a three nines thing when accounting across all services (less than 8.7 hours a year).
Seems like Apple is running a three 9’s world wide service. They need to do MUCH better before mass migration to iCloud.
Dump the twinkie, goddamnit and get a boss in charge of that turd called Apple.
Google Gmail is constantly down, more so than iCloud. Just 2 weeks ago Google Drive was down for 6 hours. Cloud services is a tough business, especially when you have hundreds of millions of users at any given moment. I think people need to chillax for a second. If you use OS X Mail, Calendar, and AddressBook than guess what!? It is cached locally for offline. So don’t worry so much. In fact you should have a secondary email service from host local provider or service anyway.
To think everything is perfect, than man you don’t realize this is Earth filled with Humans that are fallible.
Time for Azure?
11:43 AM CDT – No issues logging in. Find my iPhone working correctly. Notes, Calendar working.
I believe it was a problem with their login servers. The problem also affected software update and it was clear that the actual download servers where responding but the login could not authenticate, thus negating the install attempt.
Why is the top banner time and date always wrong on this site? Or am I just not understanding. It is sometimes, like today, a day later than actual date
This just in: “Nevada State Police report having to assist a stranded motorist at mile 57 of the highway leading to the new Apple iCloud data center. The driver, name withheld, reported getting lost using Google Maps on his iPhone while enroute to repair a faulty high capacity internet link at the new facility. Officers assisted the driver with finding the correct routing instructions via Apple’s Map app and sent him on his way.”
Blackberry users unaffected.
Just being fair. 😉
Could this all be part of Samsungs attack on Apple.
Supposedly subtle…..8 page ad in today’s Wall Sreet Journal by Samsung….attack to get rid of Apple Leadership..and now on the day of earnings announcement, a shut down of ICloud
Is it shame shame Apple or is it shame shame Samsung
Apple, you and all the vapor vendors can stick your “cloud” where the sun don’t shine. The iCloud and all the rest of these server services can only be useful for disposable media downloads. Mission critical data belongs on your own secured, backed-up server.
Q: What’s iCloud supposed to do?
A: Work
Q: Then why the fsck doesn’t it do that?