Apple's [iCloud](https://appleinsider.com/inside/icloud) experienced issues on Monday, with unexpected downtime impacting some of Apple's online services for a number of users.

![](https://photos5.appleinsider.com/gallery/47566-92851-46689-91032-yosh-xl-xl.jpg)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](https://appleinsider.com/inside/apple-news) wasn't loading stories, while [Apple Music](https://appleinsider.com/inside/apple-music) on Mac fails to bring up any pages at all.