Definitely. Downdetector shows a bunch of reports too (e.g. https://downdetector.com/status/apple-music/). I noticed issues with Music and News, seems like a ton of their services are down
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#12I chose the perfect time to restore a repaired iPhone, don’t seem to be able to fully login to iCloud, it’s hanging on the login screen…
Edit: It’s also refusing to download any apps, doesn’t even show the progress circle. Just a download icon next to the app name on the Home Screen and errors out when you click it.
Edit: Login and app downloads now working as of 6.00GMT
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#13iMessage texts are working fine for me but an image I sent to a friend is stuck. Music is also down for me.
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#14MacRumors says Apple is down.
https://www.macrumors.com/2022/03/21/icloud-and-apple-servic...
Big outage... is it some stupid DNS issue again?
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#15Yes. Even developer.apple.com won't load at all for me. Who wants to take bets on DNS as the culprit?
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#16Yep.
Wife: My Apple Maps isn't working.
Me: Hmm, it's not working for me either. They must be having server problems. You should use Google Maps for now.
Wife: I can't download Google Maps either, the App Store doesn't seem to be working.
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#17You wouldn't think it if you went by this:
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#18the domain name developer.apple.com resolves through a series of CNAMEs to Apple's CDN (applimg.com), which if it was down would explain other things like iMessage also being unavailable.
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#19You wouldn't think it if you went by this: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
That is just a static github page with html. These are just green dots on a screen.
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