WASHINGTON — Apple reported an issue affecting some users of its messaging app, iMessage, was fixed Thursday afternoon.
Thousands of reports of outages began pouring in on DownDetector just before 6 p.m. Eastern Time.
Apple's System Outage page showed issues with the iMessage, Apple Messages for Business, FaceTime and HomeKit apps, which have now been marked as resolved.
People on social media complained of messages not going through or taking a very long time to send, and some reported issues with Apple's FaceTime video calling app. The outage seemed to affect people across cell carriers.
Some users reported a brief outage while others saw prolonged issues.
Several major outages this year have affected millions of Americans. In February, AT&T suffered an hourslong outage to to its U.S. cellphone network because of a technical error. In March, a massive Meta outage affected Facebook, Instagram and Whatsapp users.
