Several Apple Services are Experiencing Outages
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#2App stores and Apple TV.
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#3Based on this reddit thread in r/apple [0], it seems it is more than just service outages. iPhone users are actively being interrupted from unrelated work and forced to deal with popups it sounds like. Not just outages for App Store etc, but massive usability bugs in iOS are appearing and making iOS sound awful to use right now.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/87lafa/issue_with_ap...
Edit: Aside Rant: At what point does the OS need to get out of the way and stop trying to earn money but just let the user use it? Bugs like what people describe in r/apple sounds completely unacceptable from an OS-user standpoint.
Here's a quote from a user in that thread,
> I had to turn off my phone. I am getting it every ~15 seconds. It's infuriating.
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#4Based on this reddit thread in r/apple [0], it seems it is more than just service outages. iPhone users are actively being interrupted from unrelated work and forced to deal with popups it sounds like. Not just outages for App Store etc, but massive usability bugs in iOS are appearing and making iOS sound awful to use right now. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/87lafa/issue_with_ap... Edit: Aside Rant: At…
You're being downvoted, but I agree.
This reminds me of the system level UIAlertView's that used to pop up regarding iCloud, at seemingly random times.
I'm glad Apple re-worked that flow, but it sounds like several types of (previously) rarely occurring errors trigger similar behavior.
Re: Several Apple Services are Experiencing Outages
#5Based on this reddit thread in r/apple [0], it seems it is more than just service outages. iPhone users are actively being interrupted from unrelated work and forced to deal with popups it sounds like. Not just outages for App Store etc, but massive usability bugs in iOS are appearing and making iOS sound awful to use right now. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/87lafa/issue_with_ap... Edit: Aside Rant: At…
may be complete coincidence, but about 8-9hrs ago my friend's iphone started acting up; emails vanishing while they were reading them, sub-routes in apps silently failing back to main screen...
even if this is unrelated - disconcerting to hear that the unit's usability is so closely tied to online services
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#6My iPhone started telling me that the app I wanted couldn't be downloaded. I wasn't trying to download anything. I rebooted it. Turned on my Apple TV an hour later and it said the same thing.
Figured at that point it was an issue with Apple web services.
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#7My iPhone started telling me that the app I wanted couldn't be downloaded. I wasn't trying to download anything. I rebooted it. Turned on my Apple TV an hour later and it said the same thing. Figured at that point it was an issue with Apple web services.
Regardless if there is an issue with Apple Services or not, there was also an issue with your phone and TV. No phone or TV should ever do that, regardless of the state of Apple web services.
Re: Several Apple Services are Experiencing Outages
#8Based on this reddit thread in r/apple [0], it seems it is more than just service outages. iPhone users are actively being interrupted from unrelated work and forced to deal with popups it sounds like. Not just outages for App Store etc, but massive usability bugs in iOS are appearing and making iOS sound awful to use right now. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/87lafa/issue_with_ap... Edit: Aside Rant: At…
You're being downvoted, but I agree. This reminds me of the system level UIAlertView's that used to pop up regarding iCloud, at seemingly random times. I'm glad Apple re-worked that flow, but it sounds like several types of (previously) rarely occurring errors trigger similar behavior.
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#9My iPhone started telling me that the app I wanted couldn't be downloaded. I wasn't trying to download anything. I rebooted it. Turned on my Apple TV an hour later and it said the same thing. Figured at that point it was an issue with Apple web services.
Regardless if there is an issue with Apple Services or not, there was also an issue with your phone and TV. No phone or TV should ever do that, regardless of the state of Apple web services.
Mine and my girlfriends iPhone showed this message every time we switched apps an hour or so ago. Seems to have stopped showing the message now.
Re: Several Apple Services are Experiencing Outages
#10Based on this reddit thread in r/apple [0], it seems it is more than just service outages. iPhone users are actively being interrupted from unrelated work and forced to deal with popups it sounds like. Not just outages for App Store etc, but massive usability bugs in iOS are appearing and making iOS sound awful to use right now. [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/87lafa/issue_with_ap... Edit: Aside Rant: At…
Agreed. Nobody in my office is having issues, but I know one guy whose cowork space is full of pop-ups on their computers, complaining over and over again about not being able to access iTunes or something -- when they're not actively trying to use any service. I'm guessing maybe that cowork space NATs out as the same IP which is why all workers in one office would have issues but I haven't heard of these issues in my own office or other friends' workplaces.
Hopefully this fiasco teaches them a little about being less obtrusive with such messages. In the past, it likely could be chalked up to a user misconfiguration, so they can blame a PEBKAC issue and push it on the user. When the failure is on Apple's end, and it affects many users at once, they'll hear pretty loud and clear that these need to go away.