Other people on Reddit seem to be hitting this too [0]. Anyone knows anything about it?
[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/1rq4uxl
Edit: Now getting intermittent 502s from https://ppq.apple.com/. Something is definitely going on.
This is worse than Github being down and Apple Developers who pay 99$ a year for the privilege of writing software on this ecosystem aren't event getting a status page update: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/
They couldn't be trying harder to sink this ship.
Developers don't have to have most things they put in the apps they ship. Customers, on the other hand...
As of a decade ago (2016) Apple already had 782 million total (including free) iCloud users, with 73% or 570 million of them authenticated to iCloud.
By 2023, Apple has 973 million paying subscribers to its services.
I'm looking for a job shoveling pig shit as we speak.
What genuinely pisses me off is that this isn't noted on their status page, nor is it indicated at all when you, I dunno, revoke and generate certs repeatedly trying to solve a problem you didn't fucking cause.
Apple's servers being down makes it impossible to test your code on your _own_ devices.
Although https://developer.apple.com/system-status/ was green for most of the 3-4 hour outage, the page now at least acknowledges two minutes of downtime:
App Store Connect - Resolved Outage
Today, 12:04 AM - 12:06 AM
All users were affected
Users experienced a problem with this service.
Apple's status page is showing no problems (all green).
This is a really bad look for Apple.
Are you serious Apple?
Issued On Wednesday, January 21, 2026 at 9:47:41 AM
Expires On Wednesday, February 17, 2027 at 10:28:16 AM
So frustrating to get an error that is obviously wrong. Handle your error cases properly guys. It makes you look like amateurs.
Full disclosure, I operate a product that compares official outage acknowledgment to actual outage impact times. (Which I won't mention to avoid self-promotion.)
For this specific incident, I saw the alert come across my Slack at 19:02 UTC. We received over 100 reports of this outage before the official acknowledgement was posted by Apple on their status page at 21:37 UTC.
Shortly after their acknowledgment, the reports fizzled out and then Apple marked the incident as resolved about 20 minute later.
The whole outage lasted about 4 hours from first report to last and wasn't acknowledged by Apple until 3.5 hours into it.
I was pulling my hair out yesterday, kept checking the ppq site and was getting valid returns, but was in a doom loop of not being able to validate my certs. Issued 2 new ones before giving up.
As mentioned by others, frustratingly zero acknowledgment from Apple.
[edit] And FreeUSATax portal. Solar cone today?
edit: working now