Apple iCloud services experienced a prolonged outage lasting many hours, which has now been completely resolved.

Apple’s iCloud services encountered a substantial disruption lasting many hours, impacting users globally. Essential services such as Find My, Photos, iWork, iCloud Mail, iCloud Calendar, and iCloud Contacts experienced disruptions.

The incident commenced at approximately 1:18 AM IST, with Downdetector documenting a significant increase in user-reported issues, chiefly concerning email and server connectivity difficulties. A reduced number of users experienced synchronisation issues.

Apple recognised the disruption on its System Status page, stating that “some users were affected,” although did not delineate the extent or severity of the outage. The company announced that all affected services were completely restored by 4:30 AM IST.

The services impacted comprised:

Apple Business Essentials

Apple Business Manager

Apple School Manager

Locate My

iCloud Account and Authentication

iCloud Calendar

iCloud Contacts

iCloud Email

Enhancements to iCloud Storage

iCloud Web Applications

iWork for iCloud

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A number of individuals expressed their dissatisfaction on the social media platform X. Steve Guttbinder remarked, “I have never witnessed Apple’s cloud services experiencing an outage of this duration, characterised explicitly as a ‘outage’ rather than ‘issues.’” Exceeding 2.5 hours and continuing.

Apple has not disclosed more information concerning the reason of the outage but has assured that all services are currently functioning correctly.