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78 points • by strongpigeon • yesterday at 7:56 PM • 31 comments • view on 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.

Comments

xutopia • yesterday at 7:59 PM

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/

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ollin • today at 12:28 AM

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.
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gt565k • yesterday at 8:09 PM

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.

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strongpigeon • yesterday at 8:09 PM

I'm getting invalid certificates from https://ppq.apple.com. I think that's probably the root cause?

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curioussavage • today at 2:34 AM

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.

ynac • yesterday at 8:40 PM

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?

Orellius • today at 12:34 AM

And I was surprised why nothing worked, now I know. read comments here system is down hard.

benn67 • today at 1:44 AM

I’m in the 2 hours wasted club. Could have been worse.

erkanerol • yesterday at 9:27 PM

Why is all green in the status page? Really really annoying.

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avicado0o • yesterday at 9:56 PM

Finally WORKING!!

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tariksune • yesterday at 9:48 PM

updated that there was an outage on app store connect https://developer.apple.com/system-status/

edit: working now

semtra • yesterday at 9:22 PM

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