Some Apple customers say they’ve been mysteriously locked out of their accounts

One thing is up with Apple ID this weekend. As reported by 9to5Mac, Apple customers began complaining on-line final night time that they’d been logged out of their Apple IDs on all of their units with out clarification. Upon making an attempt to log again in, some say they have been locked out of their accounts regardless of coming into the proper particulars, and needed to reset their passwords. Engadget has reached out to Apple for extra data.

Apple hasn’t mentioned something publicly about what’s occurring, and its System Standing web page makes no point out of issues with Apple ID or some other programs within the final 24 hours. In a Mastodon put up noticed by The Verge, one particular person mentioned Apple help instructed them solely that “generally random safety enhancements are added to your account.” It’s unclear what number of customers have been affected, although folks have piled onto social media threads in regards to the difficulty to say they’ve skilled it too. In keeping with 9to5Mac, a few of the publication’s personal workforce have run into the issue.

Whereas the difficulty appeared to have heightened on Friday night time, there have been sporadic studies of comparable issues within the current previous. Software program developer Michael Tsai revealed a blog post in regards to the newest incident and referenced a time simply final fall when the identical factor occurred.