TLDR
- Apple confirmed an iCloud outage that began Tuesday, November 10, at about 5:49 p.m. ET.
- Mail, Calendar, Contacts, iWork for iCloud and Game Center were listed as outages.
- Find My was marked as slow or unavailable, and some users reported sign-in problems.
- Apple’s status pages in the U.S., U.K., Japan, South Korea, China and Hong Kong showed the issue.
- Apple has not said what caused the disruption.
Apple has confirmed an iCloud outage that disrupted several of its online services. The problems began on Tuesday, November 10, at about 5:49 p.m. ET. That was 2:49 p.m. PT and 10:49 p.m. in the U.K.
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In Asia, the same event began on the morning of November 11. IT Home reported it started around 6:49 a.m. Beijing Time. The outage lasted nearly two hours, according to that report.
Which Services Went Down
Apple’s System Status page first listed outages for five services. These were iCloud Calendar, iCloud Contacts, iCloud Mail, iWork for iCloud and Game Center. Find My was listed separately as possibly slow or unavailable.
Some reports described a wider list. IT Home said iCloud account login and registration were also down. It also listed Photos among the affected services.
For users, this could mean trouble sending or receiving iCloud email. It could also block access to synced calendars and contacts. Some people may not have been able to open documents through iCloud.com or use Game Center.
Apple’s notice did not say every user was affected. Some people may have seen normal service while others had problems.
Sign-In Problems Reported
As 9to5Mac reported, people posted online about Apple Account sign-in failures. Some said they were signed out without warning. These were reports from individual users.
Those reports do not prove that Apple’s account sign-in service had its own confirmed outage. Apple’s status page did not list it as a separate issue in the initial notice.
IT Home gave a different account of the login problem. It said core login and registration services were down. It added that buyers of the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone Duo could not restore data from iCloud backups during the disruption.
The outage was not limited to one region. IT Home said Apple’s status pages in mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, the United States and the United Kingdom showed the problem. This points to a global issue rather than a local one.
Apple has not shared a cause for the disruption. It has also not explained why Find My was marked as degraded while other services were listed as outages. The company has not given a timeline for full recovery in the notices reviewed.
Customers can check Apple’s System Status website to see which services are affected. Status pages can change quickly, so the live page gives the most current information.
If a service is listed as unavailable, the problem is on Apple’s servers. Signing out of iCloud again or changing account settings is unlikely to fix it. Waiting for Apple to restore the service is generally the more practical step.
IT Home said the outage had lasted nearly two hours at the time of its report. The Apple status pages in the regions it checked still showed the problems at that point.
