Yes, the whole Internet is having major issues right now
Macworld Whether youre using a Mac, iPhone, orshudder a PC, dozens of popular internet services in both the United States and western Europe are down right now, or at least acting slowly and erratically. This sort of thing is often due to an outage with Amazon Web Services, but this time, its definitely a bit broader than that. A quick look at DownDetector.com and the ThousandEyes Outages sites show huge problems across a large host of services. Its not just Slack and Redditits also Microsoft 365 services, including Outlook, as well as Azure hosting, Cloudflare, gaming networks, Gmailyou name it, its got a problem. Some users are reporting issues with some Apple services like iMessage, but Apples Service Status page currently shows everything green across the board. But dont be too surprised if you have problems with some Apple services despite thisif the error is because of problems on a Tier-1 network provider (a core internet backbone infrastructure issue) and not in Apples own systems, you could have trouble reaching Apples services even though, technically, they are functioning just fine. It is not yet clear what the cause of the outages are or when they will be addressed. This stuff tends to be rectified pretty quickly, but well keep this article updated as we learn more.