A widespread outage of Apple’s instant messaging service was reported Thursday afternoon, with thousands of users reporting problems on Downdetector.
More than 10,000 outages have been reported. (Photo Illustration by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via ... [+]
Some 13,642 outage reports were made on Downdetector.com as of just after 6 p.m. Eastern time.
Despite the reports, Apple’s system status page still lists iMessage as operating normally as of shortly before 6:30 p.m. Eastern time.
Users on X, formerly known as Twitter, rushed to the platform to confirm the issue and voice complaints, boosting iMessage into the No. 1 spot on X’s trending topics.
Apple did not immediately respond to Forbes’ request for comment.
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