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Multiple iCloud Services Experiencing Issues

Tuesday October 23, 2018 1:32 PM PDT by Juli Clover

Several iCloud services are experiencing problems this afternoon, according to Apple's System Status Page.

iCloud Drive, iCloud Mail, iCloud Keychain, iCloud Contacts, iCloud Calendar, Mail Drop, Find My iPhone, and more are performing "slower than normal" for some users.

The problem has been ongoing since 8:51 a.m. Pacific Time this morning, and there's no word on when it might clear up.

If you've been noticing problems with iCloud services, this outage is the reason why. We'll update this post when the problem is resolved.

Tag: iCloud

Top Rated Comments

poorcody

95 months ago

Might be those Chinese spy chips self-destructing! :)

Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)

ugahairydawgs

95 months ago

What's really been bugging me about iCloud is that since the last OS upgrade, I have to sign into iCloud every single time I boot my Mac, and then it proceeds with "Setting up your Mac". Every single time. I was told to sign out of iCloud and then sign back in, which I did. That fixed the problem for one reboot. I also don't like that if I sign out of iCloud and elect to save what's on my Mac, it deletes what's on my Mac. What is it with Apple and cloud services?

That sounds more like a problem with your OS

Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Lucky736

95 months ago

Don’t have access to my photos on the cloud...

Don't worry someone else does.

Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)

campyguy

95 months ago

Not positive, last I've read that iCloud's services relies in part on Amazon's servers. I use AWS with my business. I got an email from Amazon a few days ago that they were moving from Oracle's DB SW to Amazon's own Aurora PostgreSQL DB SW today (early this morning, I recall). AWS has been spotty all day, but I planned for it. I'd read that Aurora choked on Prime Day a few months ago, so no surprise today - I scheduled couriers today and tomorrow for critical deliveries and glad that I did now...

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

timborama

95 months ago

You mean Apple acknowledged the issue 8:51 a.m. Pacific Time. I’ve had iCloud mail issues for past 3 days.

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

Defender2010

95 months ago

Haven’t been able to sign into my iCloud account for the past 2 hours.

Score: 2 Votes (Like | Disagree)

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