Apple's iCloud service is suffering an outage which appears to be affecting a few other Apple services as well. A number of users flocked to Down Detector to report issues with iCloud, it appears ...

The underlying tech for this feature is Apple’s iCloud Private Relay system, so the outage affected Mail’s behavior too. Substack’s explanation, though, has caused confusion for some.

First reported on July 26, the problem was making iCloud Private Relay slow or unavailable for a number of users. The immediate impact was that Safari on iPhone would sometimes appear to stick.

Apple says that the ‌iCloud‌ Private Relay service may be slow or unavailable. The outage started at 2:34 p.m. Eastern Time, but it does not appear to be affecting all ‌iCloud‌ users.

The recent iCloud Private Relay outage began at 02:34 AM Eastern Time on Thursday and lasted until 10:59 PM Eastern Time on Saturday.

The outage is for iCloud Mail with "some users" affected and "unable to send, receive or access mail." The listed "issue" is for iCloud Web Apps, again with "some users" affected by being unable ...

The outage prevented people from accessing services connected to iCloud like Photos and iMessage such that they couldn't sync or download. The problems began around 11:30 a.m. Pacific/2:30 p.m ...