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HomeKit Secure Video hits 24-hour outage as downtime continues

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Why This Matters

The ongoing outage of Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video platform highlights vulnerabilities in smart home security infrastructure, impacting users' ability to monitor and record footage reliably. This incident underscores the importance of robust, resilient security solutions for consumers and the need for tech companies to ensure high availability of critical services.

Key Takeaways

Apple’s platform for recording and managing security camera footage has been experiencing performance issues for over 24 hours. Here are the details.

Issue started yesterday at 6:49 p.m. ET

If you rely on HomeKit Security Video and have been encountering performance issues, you’re not alone.

Apple confirmed yesterday at 6:49 p.m. ET that an ongoing HomeKit Secure Video issue has been affecting some users, causing the service to be “slow or unavailable.”

As a result, some users aren’t getting motion alerts from their HomeKit cameras, and recordings may not be saved.

On the HomeKit subreddit, some users report missing recordings and motion alerts, while others can still see live feeds despite not receiving alerts.

Apple has yet to acknowledge or comment on the situation, aside from signaling the issue on its status page.

We’ll update this post if Apple comments on the issue, or once it is resolved.

Have you been experiencing issues with HomeKit Secure Video? Let us know in the comments.

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