iMessage Experiences Outage for Second Time in Five Days [Update]

Apple’s iMessage protocol is currently down for the count, yet again. This is the second outage in five days, with the last outage occurring last Thursday. Messages we have tried sending to our contacts won’t show up as “Delivered” and just hang.

During times like these, most users will fall back to text messaging (what’s that?) or either popular third party apps like WhatsApp.

Are you currently affected by the iMessage outage?

Update: Apple’s iCloud status page mentions the outage:

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MN
MN
13 years ago

Definitely affected. Under my iMessage settings, my account has been hanging as “Waiting for activation…” for about 2 hours.

Mike McCormick
13 years ago

I’m affected. Nothing getting through.

Mike McCormick
Reply to  Mike McCormick
13 years ago

Switching to WhatsApp

firefly88
firefly88
Reply to  Mike McCormick
13 years ago

Please keep us updated with how it goes.

Kiki
Kiki
13 years ago

Yep. Nothing is going through.

Chrome262
13 years ago

No problems on my end

Andrew Devlin
13 years ago

I’ve had issues connecting to iTunes all day…Match is spotty, and I can’t get Radio on my Apple TV.

Daniel Abrahamsson
13 years ago

Seems to be up and running again .

Roberto Felgueiras
13 years ago

i had no problems. didn’t know about it at all till i read it.

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