If you’re having trouble opening iMessage, you’re not alone. From the tech giant support page states that iMessage is currently experiencing some issues. The page says “users may not be able to send or download attachments in iMessage.” Apple’s page says the issues are still ongoing.
According to a third-party web monitoring service Down detector, users are also having problems sending and receiving messages. It seems the problems started around 8:50am PT/11:50am ET.
Unfortunately, if you’re experiencing issues with the messaging service, there’s not much you can do and it’s not known when the issues will be resolved. JS has reached out to Apple to learn more about the outage and will update this story as soon as we know more.
Apple’s other online services, such as iCloud and the App Store, don’t appear to be affected by today’s outage.