{"id":281433,"date":"2018-10-24T11:44:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=281433"},"modified":"2018-10-24T11:45:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T09:45:01","slug":"apples-icloud-hit-by-extended-downtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/281433-apples-icloud-hit-by-extended-downtime.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple&#8217;s iCloud hit by extended downtime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s iCloud service appears to have experienced extended outages as many users reported issues accessing some iCloud-based apps, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/10\/23\/18016512\/apple-icloud-find-my-iphone-service-disruption-outage\"><strong>The Verge<\/strong><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Apple noted that iCloud was experiencing some sort of widespread service disruption, which was evidenced on its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/systemstatus\/\"><strong>System Status<\/strong><\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>Key Apple software services, including iCloud Backup, iCloud Drive, and a number of productivity apps that sync using Apple\u2019s cloud platform, appeared to be affected by the outage.<\/p>\n<p>iCloud Keychain, which is used for secure login and general account sign in for iOS devices and Macs, was also affected, among a few other\u00a0serious software tools that rely on the iCloud infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has not issued any official statements on the matter; however, they do not operate any other official channels\u00a0for updating users on service status beyond the status page.<\/p>\n<p>The system status page does now indicate that the services affected by the outage have had their issues resolved.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/281167-internet-solutions-warns-of-security-breach.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Internet Solutions warns of security breach<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple&#8217;s iCloud service appeared to have experienced extended outages as many users reported issues accessing some iCloud-based apps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":222383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[605,607,923],"class_list":["post-281433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-apple","tag-icloud","tag-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281545,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281433\/revisions\/281545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}