Is iCloud Down?

No — iCloud is up

Reachable from all 8 checked regions

Average response time: 557ms

Last checked 2 hours ago · checks run every 6 hours

Official status page: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

iCloud uptime

100%

Last 7 days

100%

Last 30 days

100%

Last 90 days

366ms

Avg response, 30 days

Measured from multiple regions every 6 hours. Percentages count only checks that returned an availability answer — 58 days measured so far. A dash means that window does not yet hold enough measured days to publish a figure.

30-day history

58-day clean streak

Sep 14 Today

No downtime Partial Downtime Not measurable No data

Reachability by region

Each region runs its own request from a different part of the world. A service can be up for one continent and down for another, which is usually the first sign of a routing or CDN problem.

dfw

52ms

DNS 34ms TCP 1ms TLS 5ms TTFB 52ms

ewr

262ms

DNS 240ms TCP 1ms TLS 7ms TTFB 262ms

fra

1193ms

DNS 747ms TCP 101ms TLS 203ms TTFB 1182ms

gru

327ms

DNS 248ms TCP 1ms TLS 6ms TTFB 326ms

iad

361ms

DNS 113ms TCP 22ms TLS 47ms TTFB 357ms

jnb

1594ms

DNS 1000ms TCP 0ms TLS 2ms TTFB 1593ms

lax

179ms

DNS 157ms TCP 1ms TLS 6ms TTFB 179ms

lhr

491ms

DNS 466ms TCP 2ms TLS 5ms TTFB 490ms

What iCloud does

iCloud is Apple's sync and backup layer: photos, files, mail, contacts, calendars, device backups and Find My, plus the web apps at icloud.com. Most people meet it indirectly, through a photo that will not upload or a device that will not restore, which is why an iCloud problem often reads as a broken iPhone rather than a service outage.

What an outage looks like

Photos and files stop syncing between devices while local copies stay intact and openable. iCloud Mail fails to send or receive, and the web apps at icloud.com hang or refuse sign-in. Device backups fail overnight and report an error the next morning. Find My shows stale locations. Sign-in with Apple stops working on third-party sites and apps that rely on it.

What to do about it

Apple publishes per-service state on its System Status page at apple.com/support/systemstatus, which is worth checking before resetting anything on the device. Files already downloaded stay available offline, so keep working locally and let sync catch up. Avoid signing out of iCloud or erasing a device during an incident, since both need the service to be working to complete cleanly.

Is it down for everyone, or just you?

If this page says iCloud is up but it is not loading for you, the problem is between you and them. Run a check against any URL from up to 17 cities across three regions to find out where it breaks.

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iCloud outage FAQ

Is it iCloud or my iPhone?

Check a second device on a different network before troubleshooting the phone. If photos also fail to sync on a Mac or through icloud.com in a browser, the problem is the service rather than the handset. If everything else syncs and only one device is stuck, look at that device: storage full, a paused sync setting, Low Data Mode, or a sign-in that needs re-authenticating.

Will I lose photos or files that had not finished uploading?

Not normally. iCloud keeps the local copy until an upload completes, so pending items sit on the device and finish when the service returns. The situation to avoid is freeing space or erasing the device while uploads are pending, because that can remove the only remaining copy. Leave the device on power and connected until the queue drains.

Does an iCloud outage stop me signing in to other apps?

It can. Sign in with Apple depends on Apple's identity service, so an incident there blocks logins to third-party apps and websites that offer it, even though those services are healthy. If a site rejects Sign in with Apple during an outage, another sign-in method on the same account usually works. Existing sessions generally stay valid.

My device backup failed. Should I run it again?

Wait for the status page to clear, then retry rather than repeatedly forcing it. Backups run automatically when the device is charging on a trusted network, so a failed overnight attempt normally succeeds on its own the following night. Do not erase, restore or set up a new device while backup is degraded, because a restore needs the service to serve the backup back to you.

How we measure this

We request iCloud's public endpoint every 6 hours from Fly.io regions across six continents — the most recent check ran from 8 of them.
A region counts as down only when it gets no usable HTTP response. A 403 or 429 means the origin answered and refused us, which we report as blocked, never as an outage.
A single failing region is treated as probe noise. We only change the verdict when two consecutive cycles agree.
Response times average only the regions that actually served the page, so a timeout never inflates the number.
Where iCloud publishes an official status feed we read it too. An all-clear from the vendor can soften an unconfirmed degradation; a vendor-declared outage only worsens our verdict when our own checks corroborate it.

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