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Thursday, October 25, 2012, 05:30 pm
Apple's iMessage down for many iOS and OS X users [u]
Apple's iMessage appears to be non-functional for many users across the U.S. and beyond, with both users iOS and OS X affected by the outage.Update: Continuing independent testing shows that iMessages are now being automatically switched to SMS texts.
Update 2: Users are reporting that iMessage services have been restored some three hours after the outage was first noticed.
AppleInsider has received a number of reports noting that Apple's iMessage is not functioning, and has independently confirmed that the messaging service is down.
Both iOS and OS X clients are unable to send or receive messages sent through Apple's service, with users seeing a perpetual "Sending" prompt. Some members of the Apple Support Communities forum system status webpage, all services are online.
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Look at unlimited SMS plan...
...move on.
All the messages from my wife regarding chores to do on my day off, seem to be getting through fine via SMS, unfortunately.
If one uses the desktop iMessage app, how would one know that the service is actually down and not simply behaving pretty much as poorly as it ALWAYS does, even under normal circumstances?
I'm not having any problems. iMessage is working for me. Shows as sending as iMessage. I did have issues earlier but not now.
It even happens with text messages. The servers go down... A non-issue...
It even happens with text messages. The servers go down... A non-issue...
Maybe in Finland. I have never, ever experienced an SMS system failure. (Knock wood!)
No issues with iMessage since beta. I maintain around a dozen conversation threads with friends and family throughout the day on my Macs, iPhone and iPad. Only time I use SMS is to non iOS users and when I have no data signal (not very often).
Saying that, I think that at the time of the outage I would have been asleep (in the UK)
It even happens with text messages. The servers go down... A non-issue...
That shouldn't happen. I had a problem with SMS for half a day in 10 years. And they had to do a lot of apologies for that.
That shouldn't happen. I had a problem with SMS for half a day in 10 years. And they had to do a lot of apologies for that.
People shouldn't die, either. But it happens infrequently enough that we generally ignore it. No system is perfect.
FaceTime was down too. Got my mom a new iPhone and first time she tries out FT the servers are down. Servers go down though, not that big a deal. What I do find annoying is that if the message recipient has their phone off or is out of service it's impossible to send an iMessage instead of SMS. On a pay-per-text plan, I'd rather just send/receive a late iMessage than have to keep paying for every text.
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Here was my conversation with Apple Support regarding the iMessage service. It was at 5:38pm ET.
Hope:
Okay Jacob. I was able to confirm there is an outage with the iMessage service.
Hope:
Our engineers are working diligently to correct this issue. I am terribly sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused.
Hope:
As of now I do not have an eta as to when the service will be back up and working. Typically this should not last no more than 24 hours.