Apple has recognized and is rolling out a repair for the bug that intermittently prevented third-party apps from syncing in iCloud (through 9to5Mac). In a response to a developer on Apple’s group discussion board, Apple says it has “investigated this issue on the CloudKit backend, and have implemented a fix.”

The firm nonetheless didn’t specify precisely what went unsuitable — it stated the errors “resemble request-throttling that may be affecting a specific user, or the container as a whole,” and vaguely blamed “an underlying issue” for inflicting the widespread syncing issues.

As 9to5Mac studies, builders have been coping with this situation since November, which hasn’t been publicly acknowledged by Apple till now. Developers observe that their customers have obtained a “Request failed with HTTP status code 503,” largely leading to a foul search for builders (with no consequence for Apple). At the time, 9to5Mac additionally stated that some builders had been contacted individually by Apple and advised the problem needed to do with CloudKit.

It’s unclear why it took so lengthy for Apple to reply or why it isn’t addressing the problem on a bigger platform. When The Verge reached out to Apple, we had been directed to the corporate’s publish on the developer discussion board in lieu of an official assertion.

Aside from the app syncing situation, Apple experienced some outages associated to its different iCloud companies, together with iCloud Photos, iCloud Mail, and iCloud Backup, however as seen on Apple’s System Status page and DownDectector’s chart, it appears to be like like the problem has been largely resolved.