Mikey Campbell
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 It appears that users in North America and Europe are most affected by the outage. According to Apple's iCloud system status webpage, all services are online.
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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.
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...