iCloud services were majorly affected on Wednesday morning globally which disrupted apps like Apple Mail and Photos. Most of these users shared their issues on social media but the popular tracking platform Downdetector showed us the real magnitude of the outage and which of the services were not available for more than a few hours on early June 25, 2025. The Apple system status page also highlights a host of services, including iCloud and iWork for Cloud, and even Find My were facing issues for over 4 hours. 

And as of 11:04 AM IST, all these issues are marked in green colour on the system status page by Apple. Most of the users in the US and Europe were impacted by the down time, while we did not see a lot of reports coming from India.

iCloud Outage: People Facing Issues At Work 

The problem with an outage with iCloud is that most users have their data and other services backed up to the network, which means you can’t get any mails, you cannot access the Photo library on the iPhone or even Mac, and yes, even the passwords for your important accounts stop working till the issues are fixed. 

Having all these apps not working early in the morning at work could have most people rejoicing but netizens were clearly not pleased with the duration of the outage and how it affected their lives outside of work. 

Apple says that iCloud is private and keeps your data secure but if that same service faces outages for more than an hour, operations are affected and people are left scrambling to get their devices working for the important stuff like meetings, mails etc. 

iCloud isn’t the only major service to face an outage recently. OpenAI had to bear ChatGPT going offline for a while earlier this month as well. 

The AI chatbot was not accessible for thousands primarily affecting the chatbot’s core functionality. In India, a staggering 82 percent of reported complaints were directly linked to ChatGPT’s inability to respond to queries. Mobile application issues accounted for 14 percent of problems, while four percent of users cited difficulties with API integration.

And just like this iCloud issue, the disruption, acknowledged by OpenAI, impacted Sora, the company’s text-to-video generation platform, frustrating users who rely on these AI tools for various tasks.