On January 26, according to the Russian satellite network, Apple's cloud service iCloud suffered a widespread outage. Apple's system status page shows that iCloud Backup, iCloud Mail, Photos, and Game Center are all malfunctioning.
Based on the overwhelming amount of feedback MacRumors received and hundreds of complaints on Twitter, Ray learned that some users were unable to log in to iCloud websites, enter passwords normally, or saw problems connecting to Apple ID servers. Apple users in many countries and regions have reflected iCloud rollover, but at present, the scope of services affected may be greater, and it is not clear whether all users are affected.
We all know that iCloud is not only a storage cloud disk for all kinds of data, but also an important link for apple devices to "interconnect", we can view the browser web pages, personal albums, game data, password login, backup and recovery before replacing the new machine, and even convenient cross-device copy and paste, all of which are achieved with the help of iCloud. Once Apple's cloud service crashes, it means that the daily operation of users will be affected to a certain extent.
In order to be able to reduce the storage occupation, Xiao Lei also spent a few dollars to subscribe to Apple's iCloud cloud service, so that photos can be uploaded to the cloud, both can be viewed at any time when there is a network, and will not waste valuable storage space, 6 yuan per month can have 50G cloud disk space, or quite cost-effective.
iCloud went down massively, and Xiao Lei guessed that the reason was that the number of Apple users had surged in recent years, more people were using iCloud, and the pressure on the server inevitably increased. As more and more users use iCloud for backup and synchronization activities, Apple's cloud servers are estimated to be unable to resist.
Apple's cloud service can carry a large number of user activities, and its operation and maintenance costs are certainly not low. Meizu has also vacated server resources by reclaiming the cloud space of some idle users and turning off some cloud backup functions to save maintenance costs. iCloud seems convenient on the surface, and Apple should have invested a lot of energy in it.
At the end of the day, iCloud is still the most important part of Apple, and cloud services crash and many of the users' operations will be limited. Xiao Lei hopes that Apple can give an explanation and solve it as soon as possible, don't wait until the "potato sprouts", it is not good to hurt the user.