{"id":39372,"date":"2023-05-12T15:43:27","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T19:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=39372"},"modified":"2025-01-16T09:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-16T14:09:06","slug":"apple-service-outages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/12\/apple-service-outages\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Service Outages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2023\/05\/12\/apple-service-outages\/\">Ben Lovejoy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2023\/05\/12\/apple-service-outages\/\"><p>The number of Apple service outages lately seems to have risen to the point where they&rsquo;ve become almost routine.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Let&rsquo;s look just at Apple service outages and issues in the four-and-a-bit months of the year to date &#x2013; and these are just the examples found by a quick search of our own site, which only reports the more widespread problems[&#8230;]<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>I can&rsquo;t count the number of times I see tweets about Apple service outages, confirm them on DownDetector, and then check <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/systemstatus\/\">Apple&rsquo;s system status page<\/a> to see nothing but green lights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I regularly encounter outages with App Store Connect, notarization, and Siri. I wouldn&rsquo;t say that things have been getting worse, though.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/21\/widespread-apple-services-outage\/\">Widespread Apple Services Outage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/27\/apple-system-status-page-needs-to-switch-off-its-reality-distortion-field\/\">Apple System Status Page Needs to Switch Off Its Reality Distortion Field<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"apple-service-outages-update-2023-05-19\">Update (2023-05-19): <a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/110386686413607112\">Steve Troughton-Smith<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.social\/@stroughtonsmith\/110386686413607112\">\n<p>There seems to have been a huge uptick in Apple services outages over the past six months. Is AWS\/Akamai no longer able to handle their scale? Has Apple tried to move things in-house and is finding out the hard way why that's so hard? Or has internet infrastructure in general just been under a huge amount of DDOS attacks lately?<\/p>\n<p>All the above?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/13\/sunsetting-dark-sky\/\">Sunsetting Dark Sky<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"apple-service-outages-update-2023-05-24\">Update (2023-05-24): <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2023\/05\/23\/imessage-is-currently-down\/\">Filipe Esp&oacute;sito<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2023\/05\/23\/imessage-is-currently-down\/\">\n<p>If you&rsquo;re having issues with Apple&rsquo;s iMessage on Tuesday, it&rsquo;s not just you. The platform is currently down or partially not working for some users. While in some cases users can send text messages but not media, others have been complaining that iMessage is not working at all.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"apple-service-outages-update-2023-06-23\">Update (2023-06-23): <a href=\"https:\/\/iosdev.space\/@adam\/110591242124394031\">Adam Overholtzer<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/iosdev.space\/@adam\/110591242124394031\"><p>I&rsquo;m continuing to get several emails a day about #Cloudkit sync failing in my app, and now the 1-star reviews are starting to appear. No errors in logs or CloudKit console.<\/p><p>Is anyone else seeing a rise in CloudKit failures?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mastodon.justtact.com\/@jaanus\/110593435444765901\">Jaanus Kase<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/mastodon.justtact.com\/@jaanus\/110593435444765901\">\n<p>I have very few users, but I do hear that occasionally there are &ldquo;iCloud outages.&rdquo; Maybe all of us using CloudKit should do some kind of community effort to set up some monitoring to understand the problem better, since Apple&rsquo;s own seems to be insufficient?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"apple-service-outages-update-2025-01-16\">Update (2025-01-16): <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/krzyzanowskim\/status\/1879532003680563628\">Marcin Krzyzanowski<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/krzyzanowskim\/status\/1879532003680563628\"><p>the macOS app update stuck on apple &ldquo;notarization&rdquo; for 3h already.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/seanreilly\/status\/1879572203039334536\">Sean Reilly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/x.com\/seanreilly\/status\/1879572203039334536\">\n<p>They are averaging 7-8 hours for my developer ID\/non-appstore builds. A week ago it was over 24 hours, so I guess we should be grateful for the improvement :(<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Lovejoy: The number of Apple service outages lately seems to have risen to the point where they&rsquo;ve become almost routine.[&#8230;]Let&rsquo;s look just at Apple service outages and issues in the four-and-a-bit months of the year to date &#x2013; and these are just the examples found by a quick search of our own site, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-05-12T19:43:29Z","apple_news_api_id":"aac9053b-f391-4a0a-8d60-02a0744ff741","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-01-16T14:09:09Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AqskFO_ORSgqNYAKgdE_3QQ","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[91,707,1230,2250,916,31,2185,653,30,2223,1842,2190,1823,247,2227],"class_list":["post-39372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-appstore","tag-apple-id","tag-apple-music","tag-apple-services","tag-cloudkit","tag-ios","tag-ios-16","tag-itunes-connect","tag-mac","tag-macos-13-ventura","tag-notarization","tag-outage","tag-sign-in-with-apple","tag-siri","tag-weatherkit"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39372"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46453,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39372\/revisions\/46453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}