Security News > 2021 > April > Apple iCloud Mail outage causing email sending, receiving issues
Apple's iCloud Mail service is suffering an outage since this morning, preventing some people from sending and receiving emails.
Starting this morning at 7:13 AM EST, iCloud Mail users began reporting that they were having difficulty sending or receiving an email to their accounts.
The issues are affecting some accounts differently, as some users can receive email but not send, while others can send but not receive.
The outage map from user reports at DownDetector indicates that the outage mostly affects users in the central and western portion of the United States.
Apple has confirmed the outage on their system status page where they state, "Users may be experiencing intermittent issues with this service."
Update 4/26/21: Apple states they resolved this issue at 12:17 PM EST but did not provide a cause for the outage.