We’re hearing loads of reports from both readers and Twitter that iCloud Mail & Notes is down. According to Apple’s iCloud System Status page, they are aware the issue is affecting “some” users and are working hard to get service restored, but between the various Siri service outages and now this, it’s clear Apple’s been having issues lately keeping their servers up against strong demand.
Is iCloud down for you? Let us know if you’re having issues in the comments. We’ll keep you updated as we know more.
Thanks, Jørn!
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94 responses to “iCloud Mail Is Down For Many Users While Apple Works To Restore Service [Breaking]”
Down for me (Midlands UK)
I don’t know maybe this was normal but my iCloud mail wasn’t working on black friday like at 2 am but I don’t know I guess that was a busy day for mail clients, not really sure. And I haven’t checked lately
Down for me as well (UK).
Working for me.
Down for me. Brattleboro VT
down for me–has been for about an hour (it’s 1:44 CST) Chicago, IL
I’m down. . . Atlanta, GA
hmm. This is the second time you guys have reported it being down, and this is the second time I have checked and everything seems to be fine for me. Maybe I am just really lucky?
:D
*Milwaukee, Wisconsin here!
I’m down. I’m really down.
Thanks for posting. I can stop plugging my router in and out. (Los Angeles)
This is why I use gmail :P.
Been about for about the last 15 minutes. Bummer how quickly I miss it. Still, way better than Mobile Me.
Siri wasn’t working reliably since Thursday and now iCloud is not working today.
down for sure…
Not working in Mexico
Down for me; 2nd time this has occurred in the past several weeks.
Down for me; 2nd time this has occurred in the past several weeks.
iCloud definitely trending towards a higher frequency of outages for me. On my machie about 8 to 14 hrs a day and this is happening much more often.
iCloud is down for me now, and has been numerous times since I switched over my mobileme account a couple of weeks ago. VERY unimpressive so far. This would suck if the service was free. But to pay for a service that routinely goes down? Lame.
Down. This is the latest in a series our 4 or 5 outages since I switched in late October. Oh, and did I mention that iCloud ate my calendar and it took Apple 3 weeks to restore it? Can we go back to MobileMe? “No,” says Apple. Not good for business. Looking for a new service and open to suggestions.
Service is still down in Kalamazoo, MI
Looks like it’s down for me too. Newton, MA
down in princeton nj
down in Anchorage, AK
Down in Greenville, SC. This is about the tenth outage for me since ImmobileMe became iCloud.
Apple also mangled my address book during the transition to iCloud, and multiple attempts with a product specialist have so far failed to resolve the problem.
After the MobileMe fiasco, I had hoped that iCloud would be rock steady before they inflicted it upon us. Wrong again. Very disappointing. How is possible that a company which does so many things better than anyone else in the game can’t get this right?
Been down in Santa Monica, CA since 11:07 am
imap stuff down here (mail, cal…). fotostream etc. working.
it did not help apple to rename mobileme to icloud
will rename me.com to gmail.com
gruss from germany
Back up in Kalamazoo, MI
Back up in Santa Monica, CA.
I’m in NZ, and it’s fine for me as far as I know.
It’s down for me (been that way for a few hours). 2:52pm central time (Texas).
it’s down for me.
it’s down quite a lot in my area actually. the web client is also very slow and unreliable when the service is running. it seems like a real bare bones operation at this point. hopefully it will improve.
the reported “downtime” always looks better than it really is too. the site can honestly report that only a fraction of one percent of users are experiencing “some problems,” even though this may in reality, translate into tens of thousands of users with no email access for hours at a time.
No issues here, working on my Mac and iPhone. Looks like only some users are affected.
Siri’s been down for more the 24 hours for me, Tacoma WA
Still down for me in Seattle as of 7:50AM Tuesday.
YES, iCloud is down for me as well. NOT a happy camper over here!!
Yes down in Southern Alabama. Since last night. So lame. Screwing up my work flow big time.
Down again today 11/29 in northeastern Ohio.
Worked okay early a.m. (as yesterday) but same problems today.
No access to mail on iMac — mail & notes in Preferences un-checks itself …
Down in Southern California. Apple claims everything’s working, though.
Now it’s chugging, trying to deliver everything since 10 am. Having a hell of a time with 8 messages on my phone and my desktop.
Nothing made it through. Back to no service. Just enough to see that I have work emails waiting for me. Infuriating. “All services are online”, I’m told.
No access to Mail via the Cloud, Mac or devices for over 30 hours here and getting desperate! It’s insane!!! I can log in to the Cloud account no problem but no access to mail.
I discovered the bt yahoo (uk) servers are now IMAP so I’m probably switching. FAR more reliable!
Same for me too. Not been able to check email for nearly 12 hours. Can access other iCloud service though.
Anyone got an update? Been 36 hours here and still not back despite the status update saying “all services online”. No they are NOT!!!!!
Since about 7 hours mail is down on all devices and webmail too
Still nothing… 3 DAYS solid!
Down in Denver for the past 12 hours on all devices …….. ;-(
I haven’t received any emails since 8:30 last night. I keep getting messages telling me I’m out of storage but I cannot delete any emails to make room for new ones bc the server is down. When I tried to join an Apple discussion board about this Safari told me it couldn’t “load the page” and I should report bugs to Apple. So Apple isn’t even allowing us to discuss this???