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110 points by strongpigeon ↗ HN
I don't see anything on https://developer.apple.com/system-status/, but I haven't been able to install apps for development on my own devices starting at 11AM PDT.

Other people on Reddit seem to be hitting this too [0]. Anyone knows anything about it?

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/1rq4uxl

Edit: Now getting intermittent 502s from https://ppq.apple.com/. Something is definitely going on.

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xutopia
For those wondering why this is a big deal it means that every developers attempting to run a development version of an iPhone, iPad or MacOS app cannot run their apps right now.

This is worse than Github being down and Apple Developers who pay 99$ a year for the privilege of writing software on this ecosystem aren't event getting a status page update: https://developer.apple.com/system-status/

rendaw
I had signed up for an Apple Developer account for "sign in with apple". I had auto-renew on. For the last month or so I was getting increasingly urgent emails about "Your Apple Developer Program membership expires in X days.". I logged into the website and there was a text block talking about a "renew" button that didn't exist on the page. According to reddit this is because mine is set to auto-renew so it's fine (why the text though, then?). A few days ago the subscription expired without auto-renewing. And I realized, maybe I don't need "sign in with apple".

They couldn't be trying harder to sink this ship.

gt565k
Enterprise apps distributed via MDM & signed using in-house distribution certificates are dead in the water too with the error message "Unable to Verify App" showing on start-up.

Apple's status page is showing no problems (all green).

This is a really bad look for Apple.

ynac
Any other services down for anyone? I've had a credit service portal fail for hours today with a notice of server issues. As well as a credit union login with a similar message. These are all first times for me. Some big black cape / hat pressure testing?

[edit] And FreeUSATax portal. Solar cone today?

semtra
Bro im tryin to sideload and everytime i try to verify my app it doesnt let me what is even going on like i need my spotify back when will the certificates be back up what else can i use to sideload
erkanerol
Why is all green in the status page? Really really annoying.
ollin
Here was the developer thread https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/818403 I found with lots of other reports of "Unable to Verify App - An internet connection is required to verify the trust of the developer".

Although https://developer.apple.com/system-status/ was green for most of the 3-4 hour outage, the page now at least acknowledges two minutes of downtime:

    App Store Connect - Resolved Outage
    Today, 12:04 AM - 12:06 AM
    All users were affected
    Users experienced a problem with this service.
Not a great developer experience.
cube00
Can't risk those precious 9s of uptime.
Orellius
And I was surprised why nothing worked, now I know. read comments here system is down hard.
benn67
I’m in the 2 hours wasted club. Could have been worse.
curioussavage
Someone on the relevant dev team needs to fix that error message!!

So frustrating to get an error that is obviously wrong. Handle your error cases properly guys. It makes you look like amateurs.

testfrequency
Oh my god I’m so happy I caught this, even if it’s resolved.

I was pulling my hair out yesterday, kept checking the ppq site and was getting valid returns, but was in a doom loop of not being able to validate my certs. Issued 2 new ones before giving up.

As mentioned by others, frustratingly zero acknowledgment from Apple.