{"id":338776,"date":"2017-04-19T23:21:42","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2017\/04\/19\/icloud-storage-plans-unavailable-issues\/"},"modified":"2017-04-19T23:21:42","modified_gmt":"2017-04-19T15:21:42","slug":"some-icloud-storage-plans-unavailable-to-purchase-today-likely-due-to-server-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/some-icloud-storage-plans-unavailable-to-purchase-today-likely-due-to-server-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"Some iCloud Storage Plans Unavailable to Purchase Today, Likely Due to Server Issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"body\" readability=\"58.118616144975\">A number of <em>MacRumors<\/em> readers received an email from Apple today stating that their 50GB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/icloud\/\">iCloud<\/a> storage plan subscription has been &#8220;discontinued&#8221; and will no longer automatically renew. Several users on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/apple\/comments\/669lm7\/1month_subscription_for_50gb_has_been\/\">Reddit<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&#038;vertical=default&#038;q=icloud%2050gb&#038;src=typd\">Twitter<\/a> have also reported receiving the email, which may have been sent mistakenly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/04\/iCloud-tiers-issue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"684\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-561444\"\/><br \/>Relatedly, some iCloud storage plans were unavailable for purchase on iOS and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/macos-sierra\/\">macOS Sierra<\/a>. When we checked the &#8220;Upgrade iCloud Storage&#8221; menu on an iPhone, both the 50GB and 200GB tiers were no longer listed. Later, the 1TB tier disappeared as well. On another iPhone, the menu wouldn&#8217;t load at all.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has not announced any changes to its iCloud storage plans, and it has not recently updated its <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT201238\">iCloud storage plans and pricing<\/a> support document, so this was likely simply a server-related issue on Apple&#8217;s backend. Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/systemstatus\/\">System Status<\/a> page does not reflect any ongoing iCloud-related issues.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has not indicated why the &#8220;discontinued&#8221; emails were sent, but all four of the 50GB, 200GB, 1TB, and 2TB tiers appear to be available for purchase again for most users. We&#8217;ll update this article if we hear anything else, particularly if Apple does have surprise changes to its iCloud storage plans in the works.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of <em>MacRumors<\/em> readers received an email from Apple today stating that their 50GB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/icloud\/\">iCloud<\/a> storage plan subscription has been &#8220;discontinued&#8221; and will no longer automatically renew. Several users on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/apple\/comments\/669lm7\/1month_subscription_for_50gb_has_been\/\">Reddit<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?f=tweets&#038;vertical=default&#038;q=icloud%2050gb&#038;src=typd\">Twitter<\/a> have also reported receiving the email, which may have been sent mistakenly.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.macrumors.com\/article-new\/2017\/04\/iCloud-tiers-issue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"684\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-561444\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nRelatedly, some iCloud storage plans were unavailable for purchase on iOS and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/roundup\/macos-sierra\/\">macOS Sierra<\/a>. When we checked the &#8220;Upgrade iCloud Storage&#8221; menu on an iPhone, both the 50GB and 200GB tiers were no longer listed. Later, the 1TB tier disappeared as well. On another iPhone, the menu wouldn&#8217;t load at all.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has not announced any changes to its iCloud storage plans, and it has not recently updated its <a href=\"https:\/\/support.apple.com\/en-us\/HT201238\">iCloud storage plans and pricing<\/a> support document, so this was likely simply a server-related issue on Apple&#8217;s backend. Apple&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apple.com\/support\/systemstatus\/\">System Status<\/a> page does not reflect any ongoing iCloud-related issues.<\/p>\n<p>Apple has not indicated why the &#8220;discontinued&#8221; emails were sent, but all four of the 50GB, 200GB, 1TB, and 2TB tiers appear to be available for purchase again for most users. We&#8217;ll update this article if we hear anything else, particularly if Apple does have surprise changes to its iCloud storage plans in the works.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/threads\/icloud-storage-plans-unavailable-issues.2042416\/\">Discuss this article<\/a> in our forums<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=R0XWAvj6iGo:ZjCfKKmAdCo:6W8y8wAjSf4\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=6W8y8wAjSf4\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.macrumors.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?a=R0XWAvj6iGo:ZjCfKKmAdCo:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/MacRumors-All?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/MacRumors-All\/~4\/R0XWAvj6iGo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[68,69,59,26],"class_list":["post-338776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-macrumors","tag-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}