Is iMessage down?

Working normallyChecked 27 min ago

iMessage says everything is working.

From iMessage's official status page, read again when you open this page. This page updates by itself.

Get an email when iMessage goes down

Email us and we'll tell you when iMessage reports a major outage, and when it's working again.

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You sign up by sending one email, so nobody else can use your address. Every alert has a stop link. Add "all problems" to the subject to hear about small problems too.

Uptime and history

iMessage uptime and outage history

Uptime: 100%; Over the 0 days on record
Problems reported: 0
Time with problems: 0 min
Major outages: 0 min
Last problem: None

90 days agoToday

No problems
Some problems
Major outage
Planned work
No record yet

The record started today. Grey days fill in by themselves as time goes on.

Recent

Recent problems

No problems reported since 22 October 2026.

Parts

What iMessage reports on

iMessageWorking

Alternatives

If iMessage isn't working

Other apps that do the same job, ranked by their own record over the last 90 days.

App	Now	Problems, last 90 days	Time with problems	Website
Google Meet	Working normally	0	0 min	Visit Google Meet
Slack	Working normally	10	36 days 12 h	Visit Slack
FaceTime	Working normally	0*	0 min	Visit FaceTime
Zoom	Maintenance under way	49*	20 days 7 h	Visit Zoom
Mattermost	Working normally	0	0 min	Visit Mattermost

Ranked by their own reported problems over the last 90 days. * The record for this app is still filling in.

Safety

Is iMessage safe to use?

Facts from its own public records, checked every day.

Fake emails in its name: Sent to spam. Emails pretending to come from apple.com go to the spam folder. Check your own domain with LeadLamp
Secure connection: Yes. Its website certificate is valid until 23 Dec 2026 (issued by Apple Inc.).
Security contact: Published. It tells security researchers how to report problems (a security.txt file).
Known data breaches: None listed. Have I Been Pwned lists no data breaches for apple.com.

Checked 22 Oct 2026 from apple.com's public records. Breach data from Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0).

Keep an eye on iMessage

No sign-up needed: a feed for your reader or team channel, or a live badge for your own site.

A feed of iMessage's problems

Every problem iMessage reports, as it happens, in your feed reader or a team channel.

appys.com/status/imessage/feed/

Slack: in a channel, type /feed subscribe https://appys.com/status/imessage/feed/
Teams: add the RSS connector to a channel and paste the address.
Feed readers: paste the address into Feedly, Inoreader or any reader.

A live badge for your site or docs

Shows iMessage's status, updated every few minutes. Copy the code into a web page, an intranet or a README.

HTML: <a href="https://appys.com/status/imessage/"><img src="https://appys.com/badge/imessage/" alt="iMessage status on Appys"></a>
Markdown: [![iMessage status](https://appys.com/badge/imessage/)](https://appys.com/status/imessage/)

For the uptime badge, change the address to appys.com/badge/imessage/uptime/.

About

About iMessage

Apple's free messaging between iPhone, iPad and Mac.

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