The whole world of social media has had a meltdown this week. After a major outage on Facebook, and it’s family of apps, Apple’s iCloud service was also down for most of yesterday. Users reported trouble signing into iCloud and accessing their accounts. Other Apple services like Photos, Mail, Backup, Find My Friends, Contacts, Calendars, also witnessed downtime. Apple Stores are also reportedly affected by the outage and not currently able to process transactions. Apple’s system status page noted the downtime across various iCloud services.
Developer tools and third-party apps were also affected. According to 9to5Mac, a user who was trying to get her iPhone fixed at an Apple Store was told that the outage is nationwide (She was from the U.S). However down detector, an outage tracking website reported that issues were also observed in some parts of Europe, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil.
Source: downdetector
All services have since been resolved.
Source: Apple
What is surprising is that Apple has not informed or warned its users about the outage. There was no tweet or update released. Only the status page was updated.
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