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Clerk incident: Development instances only - Apple rejecting emails

Clerk reported this minor-impact incident on its official status page on Sep 28, 2026, 15:23 UTC. It has not been marked resolved yet.

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Sep 28, 2026, 15:23 UTC
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  1. identifiedSep 28, 2026, 15:23 UTC

    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.

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  • Sep 28, 2026, 15:25 UTCoperational → degraded

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Clerk incident on Sep 28, 2026: Development instances only - Apple rejecting emails · APIStatus.watch