The majority of the time, all of the lights on this board will be green, but if you do spot a red, yellow or orange light, then it means this service is experiencing interruptions or is currently unavailable.

As a general rule, if you experience strange behaviour with any Apple services that have an online component, then you should check whether these services are currently offline.Īpple have provided a dashboard where you can check the status of all their services, including Messages.

Apple services rarely experience downtime, but when they do it can cause all sorts of problems for Mac users.