Is iCloud Mail down? Should you try restarting laptop, phone and router or just wait for the outage to resolve? Find out here how to check the iCloud Mail system status for problems know to Apple, or to other users at least.
First, Keep Their Crowns Under Wraps
Bananas spoil faster, such appears to be the consensus, when their crowns are torn and bare. The crown is the spot where a banana finger was cut from its stem—and the point where most of the hormone ethylene is released.
What others call spoiling you, of course, may well call ripening, and that is exactly what ethylene induces (at that time).
In any event, bananas keep longer when their crowns are wrapped (also because the crown is protected from infections). So, this is how you will find them on the market, and probably how you should keep them at home as well. It might even make them better neighbors to other fruit you want to keep.
Now, that was an easy fix, it seems. Onward to unwrapping issues with iCloud Mail:
How to Check the iCloud Mail System Status for Known Problems
Time needed: 2 minutes
To check for issues with iCloud Mail (e.g. the iCloud.com website or IMAP access to email) known to Apple:
- Visit the Apple System Status page.
- Look for issues under iCloud Mail and Mail Drop.
What to look for: Yellow diamonds mean known current issues. A green dot with a linked category points to a past, resolved issue.
- Click the iCloud Mail or Mail Drop heading to learn more about the issue with iCloud Mail and its current status.
What you will learn: You can see when the issue began (check if that coincides with your problems first surfacing), and some information about how many users are affected as well as the general nature of the problem. Do not expect involved or technical information, just a short summary of the issue’s effects.
When iCloud Mail is working: How to Check iCloud Mail for New Email in a Browser
How to Check the iCloud Mail System Status for Problems: FAQ
If the iCloud Mail Status page is not available, can I access it in another way?
No. If, for example, the Apple System Status page is unavailable for a DNS issue, you cannot access it using an IP address directly.
What alternatives are there to Apple’s own status page?
In addition to Apple System Status, you can check the following sites for problems accessing the iCloud website and reports by other iCloud Mail users about problems they are experiencing:
Do report problems with iCloud Mail at Downdetector in particular. Service providers do in general monitor these sites for outages and specific issues that have not been otherwise detected yet.
(How to check the iCloud Mail system status for problems first published May 2023, last updated April 2024)