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Widespread service outage affects half of all iCloud users

Categories: iOS / iPhone OS
By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, February 28th, 2013 at 3:13 AM

Apple’s iCloud service is down this morning in an outage that is affecting 50% of all iCloud users. According to Apple’s system status webpage, the downtime is affecting all aspects of iCloud including Mail, iTunes Match, account logins and more.

This is the second outage affecting iCloud and other Apple online services in a week. Last Thursday, another outage took down iCloud, the iTunes store, the iOS App Store and the Mac App Store. The downtime lasted only a few hours for the stores and most of the day for iCloud. Unlike today’s issue, last week’s service interruption only affected some users.

[Via Apple]

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Kelly Hodgkins

Kelly spent the last four years covering mobile technology at places like BGR, Gizmodo and The Unofficial Apple Weblog. Before writing, she spent a few years working with and teaching others how to use Adobe Flash and Macromedia Director. Even earlier than that, she spent several years as a Ph.D student in Microbiology. When she's not writing, she can be found fishing the lakes and hiking the mountains of Western Maine with her husband and tribe of children. You can follow her on Twitter @kellyhodgkins.