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/
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.
The entire Apple universe is smaller than the world or even just the github part of the world, and the Apple developer universe is a tiny fraction of even just the Apple universe.
As of 2023, GitHub had 100M active users total.
As of a decade ago (2016) Apple already had 782 million total iCloud users, with 73% or 570 million of them authenticated to iCloud.
By 2023, Apple has 973 million paying subscribers.
Apple's servers being down makes it impossible to test your code on your _own_ devices.
Which makes it sound an awful lot like they aren't actually your devices
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.
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
Says cannot be trusted when validating via SSL checker
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