Apple Acknowledges iMessage and FaceTime Outage [Now Back Up]

Sunday November 18, 2012 4:07 pm PST by Arnold Kim

Apple has acknowledged on their iCloud status page that iCloud iMessage and FaceTime services are offline for some users.

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Reports first started rolling in around 3pm Pacific on our forums with some users still reporting problems.

Update: Apple says iMessages and FaceTime is working again.

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