Clerk incident

Development instances only - Apple rejecting emails

Clerk is currently experiencing a major incident affecting Email Delivery and Email delivery, which began 6d ago. The vendor's full update timeline is below.

Started
Sep 28, 2026, 03:23 PM UTC
Resolved
Ongoing
Duration
● 6d 2h
Detected by Pingoru
Sep 28, 2026, 03:23 PM UTC

Affected components

Email DeliveryEmail delivery

Update timeline

  1. identified Sep 28, 2026, 03:23 PM UTC

    Status: Identified We discovered today that emails sent only from development instances to Apple email addresses (icloud.com, me.com) are being rejected by Apple. We have reached out to Apple to inquire further and are hoping for a swift resolution on their end. In the meantime, we recommend using test emails (https://clerk.com/docs/guides/development/testing/test-emails-and-phones#email-addresses) or an email address from a non-Apple domain to test/send emails from your development instances. Affected components Email delivery (Degraded performance)