Apple’s iCloud was down for several hours today

Facebook’s hours-long outage may have finally ended, and apparently, it’s Apple’s turn for a system outage. The company reported ongoing issues across almost all of its iCloud services beginning at 11AM ET today, which lasted until 3:28pm.
Apple didn’t offer any details about what the issues are, just that “some users are affected,” and “users may be unable to access this service.” But according to the company’s support page, the problem was