iCloud Mail has experienced an issue for the past few hours and is currently down for some users, according to Apple’s System Status page.
There have been a number of reports on Twitter and MacRumors readers over the past few hours, although the volume of reports does not appear to be very high, so the issue may only affect a relatively small percentage of users.
Apple says the iCloud mail service may be “slow or unavailable”, but no other iCloud service is currently listed as affected.
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