UPDATE: Apple’s messaging app, iMessage, appeared to be down

People on social media complained of messages not going through or taking a very long time to send.
WASHINGTON — Apple’s messaging app, iMessage, appeared to be down Thursday for some users.
Thousands of reports of outages began pouring in on DownDetector just before 6 p.m. Eastern Time. Apple’s System Outage page did not show any outages.
People on social media complained of messages not going through or taking a very long time to send. The outage seemed to affect people across cell carriers, and some users did not report any issues.