iMessage and iCloud experience yet another outage

What you need to know

iMessage experienced an outage for some users today.
iCloud Keychain was also impacted by the outage.
This is the third day this week that a major Apple service went down.

Apple services are just getting hammered this week.

Some of Apple’s services have gone down for the third time this week.

According to the company’s System Status page on the Apple Support website, both iMessage and iCloud Keychain experienced an outage today. Both services went down for “some users” between 4:47 PM and 4:59 PM EST. Apple says that both issues have been resolved:

iMessage – Resolved Issue
Today, 4:27 PM – 4:59 PM
Some users were affected

Users may have been unable to send attachments in iMessage.

iCloud Keychain – Resolved Issue

Today, 4:27 PM – 4:59 PM
Some users were affected
This service may have been slow or unavailable.

Today is the third day this week that Apple’s services have experienced outages. In addition to today, a range of services went down on both Monday and Tuesday.

It’s still unclear exactly what has been the cause for any of the outages and, at this point, it is also unclear if any of them are related.