Following a series of short but widespread iCloud and online storefront-related outages, Apple's Game Center has been down since early Tuesday afternoon (Pacific TIme), and as of late Tuesday has still not yet been resolved. According to the company's
system status page, every area of Apple's online services saw some level of outage on Tuesday, with a morning disruption of Siri, Apple Pay, storefront, and iCloud services followed by a second disruption of the online stores in the early evening.
The Game Center issue, which Apple's page is affecting "some" users but could be very widespread, apparently began around 12:30PM Pacific time, and is still ongoing as of 10PM Pacific on Tuesday. "Users are experiencing a problem with Game Center," the company reported. "We are investigating, and will update the status as more information becomes available."
Morning, afternoon, evening issues on Tuesday
It is difficult to gauge how many users are affected, but the earlier outages were seen in a number of different regions around the world, though they did not affect all users. The morning disruption saw email from iCloud, for example, work for several
MacNN staffers, but would be slow or sporadic in delivery.
Syncing services did not appear to be much affected by the issues, though Apple has not as of yet been forthcoming about what caused the earlier disruptions, suggesting that the main problem was still being worked on. As of midnight, the status page claims that all services are now functional, with the Game Center issue being resolved close to 11PM Pacific.
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