Is iCloud and Apple Pay down? iPhone owners report mysterious outage
HUNDREDS of iPhone owners reported issues with iCloud and Apple Pay on Tuesday.
A surge in complaints was detected by just before 9am UK time for iCloud alone.
Others on Twitter complained that Apple Pay was down as well.
Apple Pay issues caused chaos for some.
"My Apple Pay services just have to be down when I need to catch an Uber to get to the airport," one annoyed user wrote on Twitter.
"Unbelievable."
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Another added: "Seems it’s not just me.
"Pretty big deal of Apple Pay is down!"
A third person said: "Seems like iCloud is down — don’t think that’s ever happened before."
A fourth confused user commented: "Having trouble logging into my Apple accounts!
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"Apple just kicked me out of my iCloud account and keeps pestering me for my password."
There was also a small increase in the number of reports relating to the App Store as well.
Apple's support page says that the issues should now be resolved.
The iCloud update says the outage happened between 8.27am and 9.10am.
"Some users were affected," it reads.
"This service may have been slow or unavailable."
Reports on Twitter came from users in the UK, Japan, New Zealand, the Philippines, India and Canada suggesting it may have been a global issue.
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