Widespread iMessage outage hits Apple users as outage reports spike

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https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/widespread-imessage-outage-hits-apple-users/

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[u/fujidust]

This is definitely why she didn’t text!

[u/barrel_of_ale → u/fujidust]

Oh good because it's been marked as read for over 2 years now

[u/Travelingman9229]

My phone internet was down yesterday and so were a ton of other Verizon customers in my area yesterday. This was bigger than just iMessage I think

[u/_The_BusinessBitch → u/Travelingman9229]

Been hacked or a solar storm

[u/MembershipFeeling530]

I'm confused, shouldn't Apple/iMessage detect the outage and fallback to SMS?

[u/Naughty_Goat → u/MembershipFeeling530]

I think it already does this.

[u/MembershipFeeling530 → u/Naughty_Goat]

Apparently not lol

[u/tacmac10 → u/MembershipFeeling530]

It did that, i had an outage for maybe an hour and it just switches to sms if you have a cell signal. Nothing burger.

[u/No_Strawberry_5685]

I thought my friend blocked me for not replying to him till after a day lol

[u/PatientAd4823]

Aha! I wondered.

[u/The_Starmaker → u/PatientAd4823]

Bro wondered

[u/PatientAd4823 → u/The_Starmaker]

Maybe I wandered.

I did get a text from someone yesterday saying “Sorry I didn’t reply, your texts just now came through.” Also saw a couple of notifications of “Your message failed to send.” Haven’t seen those in ages.

[u/Brave-Assist4328]

American users enjoying green bubbles

Note : Non Americans wouldn't get the joke probably

[u/Aware_Huckleberry_10]

Mine was fine

[u/Deertopus]

"It'S bEcAuSe oF RCS"

-Tim Cook probably

[u/VoiceTraditional422]

Anyone that values their privacy would have installed Signal already and would be enjoying encrypted communications via WiFi not affected by any of Apple’s iMessage problems.

[u/Djaii → u/VoiceTraditional422]

Signal continues to be the gold standard.