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A widespread outage was reported in Apple’s instant messaging service Thursday afternoon, with thousands of users reporting issues Downdetectoralthough Apple reported shortly after 7 p.m. that the issue had been “resolved.”
More than 10,000 outages were reported. (Illustration by Jakub Purzycki/Noor Photo via … [+]
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About 13,642 outage reports had been filed on Downdetector.com as of 6 p.m. ET.
75% of outage reports submitted on the site reported problems sending messages.
Apple System Status page Shortly after 7 PM ET, the issue was “resolved”, indicating that some users were affected between 5:49 PM and 6:35 PM ET.
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Apple did not immediately respond to Forbes’ request for comment.
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iMessage outages are usually fixed by Apple shortly after they begin. A 2022 iMessage and FaceTime outage affected thousands of users, but was addressed by Apple in about 30 minutes. the edge mentioned. In February, there was a nationwide cellular network outage that affected AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile customers, forcing AT&T to restore about three-quarters of its network after the outage lasted for approximately 7 hours. Spokespeople for T-Mobile and Verizon told Forbes that their networks were operating normally during the outage, but some customers experienced issues when “calling or texting with customers served by another carrier.”
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AT&T says it has restored network after nationwide cell service outage (Forbes)
iMessage has restarted (the edge)