The Great Apple ID Snafu of 2015 is over. And it apparently cost Apple about US$25 million in lost sales revenue. Over the course of a 12-hour outage between Tuesday and Wednesday, Apple’s iTunes Store and App Store were down due to a DNS error. During this time, users couldn’t purchase apps, songs, movies or […]
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It’s probably not a good day to be on Apple’s network team. Or at least there’s a lot of yelling involved. On Tuesday, it was reported that Apple services are experiencing major issues. It started with iCloud. Users were unable to sign in to their iCloud mail accounts, then all of iCloud went down in […]
This might come in handy where security is concerned. Apple has now expanded the number of services protected by its two-step verification service, security-conscious users now able to count iMessage and FaceTime among those features protected by the service. Beginning today, those who have opted in to the two-step verification program will be asked to […]
If you’re slamming your head against a nearby object about your Wi-Fi performance after the OS X 10.10.2 and/or iOS 8.1.3 updates, you’re not alone. Per Macworld, a second OS X 10.10 update, labeled 10.10.2, was publicly released Tuesday. Leading off the improvements offered in the update was “resolves an issue that might cause Wi-Fi […]
It’s not a revolutionary update, but it could be useful. On Tuesday, Apple released its iOS 8.1.3 update for its iOS devices. The update, a 200+ megabyte download, offers the following fixes and changes: