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Many iCloud services were offline

by iNeate / August 21, 2014 6:51 PM EDT

Shortly before 3 p.m. EDT, many of Apple's services stopped working and many were left in poor condition, including web-based services themselves, as confirmed.

What can be clearly seen in Apple's online monitoring system shows the range of hours in which the services were affected; likewise, if any user experiences unreported problems in this application, they can contact technical support.

In less than an hour, the entire service was restored and has returned to normal. Some of the iCloud services affected today included Mail, Notes, Reminders, Calendar, Backup, iMovie Theater, Find My Friends , etc., as shown in the screenshot:

Other free monitoring sites also detected the outage, and many users didn't hesitate to leave their comments and messages without knowing the reason for the problem. However, some services " pinged " the iCloud service to see if there was a response, which clearly showed that the system was down.

The apparent cause, for which no further updates have been received, is an overload of Apple's servers . Users were affected in many countries worldwide, as we saw in reports from various locations and countries, including Sydney, the United States, Canada, and others.

The problem was resolved quickly, and although it was only for a short time, thousands of users are greatly affected because they use the services for commercial or business purposes, and the losses result in large amounts with no way to recover them.

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