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