iMessage has crashed
Apple's iMessage service experienced a rare outage on Thursday, reported by many users around the world. Globe.
iMessage is one of Apple's most used services, sending millions of messages in seconds. When a failure occurs, it is immediate and easily detected by services such as Downdetector.
Starts at approximately 17:40. EST, reports have started coming in about slow sending or errors sending messages via iMessage. The peak of reports came shortly after 6 p.m. EST and deviated until approximately 7:30 p.m. EST.
Disconnection terminated. Apple's system status shows the problem occurred between 5:49 p.m. and 6:35 p.m. EST. This shows that the problem has been resolved.
Updated May 16, 7:50 p.m.Text updated to reflect end of outage and update to Apple's status page.
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