Apple's iCloud inaccessible for some users
Apple's iCloud system status page reported an outage occurring within the last half hour, an issue at least one reader also noted. AppleInsider was unable to experience any issues with iCloud services, but the company reports that the issues only affect "some" users.
Yesterday, Apple reported issues connecting to mail and notes, a problem it similarly said affected "some" users without providing a metric for how widespread the issue actually was. According to its status report, the issues were resolved in an hour and half.
Earlier in the week, Apple reported account issues that affected "less than 3 percent" of users, but prevented them from logging in or changing passwords.
Apple has also been experiencing some downtime issues with its cloud-based Siri voice assistance service for iPhone 4S, although those problems are not tracked or reported on the iCloud system status page.
The company has worked hard to turn around the negative perception of its MobileMe services, which were introduced into a storm of problems at the release of iOS 3.0 just over two years ago, in part by renaming and streamlining the cloud services under the new name "iCloud."
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Just tried running iCal and got an error message saying "Cannot connect to iCloud".
Also iCloud Mail doesn't seem to work for me at the moment...
Apple needs to learn to do slow, systematic rollouts better. All the in-app betas of apps in MM was a great start. Having Siri be a beta is also a great start. But you don't have to offer everything at the same time to all users. Let the longtime MM users be first and ten give them passes to give to other users a your system can handle it. Same goes for iTM, though admittedly the problem there might be related so something above and beyond the number of users.
Just tried running iCal and got an error message saying "Cannot connect to iCloud".
Also iCloud Mail doesn't seem to work for me at the moment...
Same here...
Same here...
Hmm... seems to be working now. I added an event on iCloud Calendar and it appeared straight away on iCal. Mail is now working
You might want to try again...
I must say, I'm not impressed at all with iCloud, especially the email, the junk filter is useless, and the web-mail is extremely slow, I find it to be way slower than MobilMe.
As an original subscriber to .mac way back from the release date, then MobileMe, and now iCloud, I concluded that Apple just doesn't know how to run a good email service, nor can they securely maintain your data, even if you pay $99 a year. They already lost two years worth of saved email when they switched me from .mac to MobileMe, if that had been Gmail, people would've cried bloody-mary.
I have built photo albums and a few sites on my .mac account which will be closed come June or July. To me that is unacceptable, I'll have to pull all my photos, re-categorize them, copy all my captions, and re-upload them to photo-bucket or Picasa. I would assume a good full days work. After that, I would have to email everyone who I think needs a new link to the new pages, update links to my multiple online resumes, facebook, and Linked-In.
I mean why? Why would Apple need to cut-out such a simple service, can't they continue an enhanced Photo Service within iCloud? I've been assigned 25 Gigs, I should be able to use it like I wish. I don't use Pages nor any of Apple's suites, so what else can I use this storage for? Nothing! So that's gonna get downgraded, I really can't change my email so I can only hope to eventually improve it.
Edit: Wow look at that my post is longer than the article. I was waiting for such an article so I can blow off some iCloud steam, thanks AI