Apple's iCloud experienced issues on Monday, with unexpected downtime impacting some of Apple's online services for a number of users. Starting from 12:50 p.m. eastern on Monday, AppleInsider staff encountered problems with various Apple services. This included iCloud going down, which is a key element that impacts other services and apps with online components. This included Mail, which became unreliable in fetching messages for multiple staff. Some found Apple News wasn't loading stories, while Apple Music on Mac fails to bring up any pages at all. A few minutes after initial publication, AppleInsider staff encountered further problems with iMessage, as well as Apple Maps . However, at the outset, the outages appeared to affect users in different ways, with some experiencing normal access for some apps, but not others. At the time the outages were spotted, DownDetector reports a lot of Apple services received a spike in reports, including Apple TV+ , App