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iCloud Services Currently Down for Some Users [Update: Fixed]

Thursday August 21, 2014 12:43 PM PDT by Juli Clover

It appears that many individuals are currently experiencing issues with iCloud, with several people reporting difficulties receiving/sending iCloud mail and logging into iCloud.com. Users attempting to access iCloud.com are receiving the following error message: "iCloud encountered an error while trying to connect to the server."

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Users appear to have been experiencing issues for the last half an hour or so and Apple's System Status Page is now listing downtime for some users for a slew of iCloud services, including Find My Friends, Back to My Mac, Find My iPhone, iCloud Accounts, Photos, iWork for iCloud, and more.

Over the last several months, iCloud has been down multiple times, with the longest outage happening just over a month ago. In July, a small percentage of users were unable to access iCloud Mail for approximately 27 hours.

Update 12:30 PM PT: According to Apple's System Status page, the issues with iCloud have been resolved.

Top Rated Comments

dannyyankou

150 months ago

"it just works"

Ah, I knew this overused, cliché, and unnecessary quote would be posted in this thread. I'd like to remind you that there isn't a single service or piece of software on the market without bugs and glitches. And iCloud works really well 99.9% of the time.

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farewelwilliams

150 months ago

"it just works"

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cicton

150 months ago

Not sure if related, visual voice mail has been down for about an hour or so.

That's a feature from the carrier. Can't blame that one on Apple.

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S.B.G

150 months ago

I've been having this problem for about the last 90 minutes or so. It came back online briefly about 45 minutes ago, but it's down again.

Score: 1 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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