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Amusingly, their status page is actually up, and it says everything's fine: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

Their systems are so decoupled, a true sign of quality modularized engineering /s.

All kidding aside, I rarely find that status pages seem to reflect reality when something is obviously broken on a main website of application. Anyone know why this seems to be the case? Perhaps my experience is just anecdata so I could be wrong.

They probably just use a script to check for 200 status and some text or something like that. The current issue is their css and js are returning 403s

Add their robots.txt to the list :-/

Status pages are generally updated manually, so they either haven't updated it yet, or as another commenter mentioned, the linked status page doesn't have a category for the services that are currently failing.

Nothing on that status page would cover the parts of the website that is down.

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