Thousands of iPhone users experienced disruptions with Apple’s messaging service, iMessage, on Thursday.
According to DownDetector, more than 13,000 outage reports were logged shortly after 6 p.m. ET. The outage tracking website also highlighted similar issues with major carriers including Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile around the same time.
Affected iPhone users turned to social media platform X to express their frustrations and verify if others were encountering similar delays in sending text messages.
Apple's System Status tracker acknowledged the issue at approximately 7:00 p.m. ET. By 7:30 p.m. ET, Apple indicated that the problem had been resolved.
Social media quickly became a hub for users to share their experiences of being unable to access iMessage.
