Many apple services were experiencing outages for a good chunk of early Monday afternoon. Services with confirmed issues according to the apple system status page include I message some apple maps services I cloud mail I cloud keychain the app store apple music apple tv plus and pad casts. But after 3:45 et or sp, every service again has a green light and says that the problem has been resolved. Apple has not responded to requests for comments about what might have been going on.
Report of the issue hit down detector shortly after 12, through reports look to have fallen in the hours since the outages were first reported. The verge staff experienced scattered problems with I message and other key services although the problems have not been impacting everyone equally.
A tweet from whats app beta info reveals that the problem even affected other apps. We have captured a few screenshots of the evolving list of services apple says are affected in the gallery below: the apple status page for developers was completely down at one point though it is now showing a number of outages. The tattoo has already changed as the afternoon has gone on.