FX.co ★ Thousands Of Apple Users Report IMessage Outage

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.