Ask HN: Is Apple down? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

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Post by adwi » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:29 PM UTC

donohoe wrote: post #17

You wouldn't think it if you went by this: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

I’m sure it wasn’t when you posted 10 minutes prior, but FWIW currently listing 11 outages:

> App Store - Outage Today, 12:32 PM - ongoing Some users are affected Users may be experiencing intermittent issues with this service.

Apple Arcade - Outage Today, 12:32 PM - ongoing Some users are affected This service may be slow or unavailable.

Apple Music - Outage Today, 12:32 PM - ongoing Some users are affected This service may be slow or unavailable.

Apple TV+ - Outage Today, 12:32 PM - ongoing Some users are affected Users may be experiencing a problem with Apple TV+. We are investigating this issue.

iTunes Store - Outage Today, 12:32 PM - ongoing Some users are affected This service may be slow or unavailable.

Podcasts - Outage Today, 12:32 PM - ongoing Some users are affected Users are experiencing a problem with this service. We are investigating and will update the status as more information becomes available.

Radio - Outage Today, 12:32 PM - ongoing Some users are affected This service may be slow or unavailable.

Apple Business Manager - Outage Today, 1:14 PM - ongoing Some users are affected Users may be unable to sign in.

Apple School Manager - Outage Today, 1:14 PM - ongoing Some users are affected Users may be unable to sign in.

Device Enrollment Program - Outage Today, 1:14 PM - ongoing Some users are affected Users are experiencing a problem with this service. We are investigating this issue.

Schoolwork - Outage Today, 1:14 PM - ongoing Some users are affected This service may be slow or unavailable.

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

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Post by nneonneo » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:29 PM UTC

donohoe wrote: post #17

You wouldn't think it if you went by this: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

Looks like it’s been updated. Currently showing 11 services down, some of which have been down for over an hour.

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

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Post by mwnivek » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:30 PM UTC

donohoe wrote: post #17

You wouldn't think it if you went by this: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

At the bottom of that status page, it says: Looking for developer system status? Find it here: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/

The link is currently not working...

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

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Post by Twisell » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:32 PM UTC

ransom1538 wrote: post #19

donohoe wrote: post #17

You 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.

Well make sense to me to host your status page outside your main infrastructure.

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

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Post by rvieira » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:35 PM UTC

I picked a terrific time to lose my temper and do a `rm -rf /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools ; xcode-select --install` /facepalm

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

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Post by brianpan » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

_joel wrote: post #32

oxplot wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of system status pages are updated by humans who will verify issues before reporting them. Main reason is to avoid overly surface every minor and transitory issue to public view.

Quite easy to verify if the entire developer site is down though, non?

It's very easy, except when it's hard. Also, it's never easy.

Joking, but only somewhat. That's because the easy cases are handled by automation, etc. If you knew it could happen, you probably planned for it. Figuring out what the issue is, if there really is an issue, and the scope of the issue can take some time.

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

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Post by windex » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:37 PM UTC

fedora is down.

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

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Post by zionic » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:39 PM UTC

tshaddox wrote: post #16

Yep. 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.

Yeah I posted about that here (this just bit me) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30757193 and I was flagged to oblivion.

Looks like I really need to keep a 3rd party nav app installed just in case!

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

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Post by callalex » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:40 PM UTC

chewmieser wrote: post #11

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

Downdetector has predicted about 50 of the last 3 outages, and linking to them here just makes the self-fueling cycle even worse.

Re: Ask HN: Is Apple down?

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Post by oxplot » Mon, Mar 21, 2022, 5:41 PM UTC

iCloud Private Relay is shown as affected as well. This is an interesting case when it comes to failure behavior. From security perspective, you want your connection to stop working instead of falling back to insecure. Is this the case? Can anyone confirm?