iCloud Private Relay outage finally resolved

Apple's iCloud Private Relay encrypts user data to protect privacy

An unknown iCloud Private Relay issue that was affecting Safari users on iPhone has now been resolved after several days.

First reported on July 26, the problem was making iCloud Private Relay slow or unavailable for a number of users. The immediate impact was that Safari on iPhone would sometimes appear to stick.

Now while it has given no details of the issue or its solution, Apple is now reporting that the problem has been resolved. According to Apple's data, iCloud Private Relay was restored over the weekend and should now be fully functional.

Also according to Apple's data, the service was affected from Thursday to Sunday for a total of 56 hours and 25 minutes. It was reportedly resolved at 10:59 PM Eastern on Sunday, July 28.

However, the Down Detector site has been reporting sporadic minor issues since then.

iCloud Private Relay was originally launched in 2021. It had an outage in 2022, when most of iCloud's features did too.