Messaging on all of my devices was having issues. Seems to have corrected itself, presumably due to backend fixes. Troublingly, my iPad, which was logged out of iMessage, is now logged in without me having done anything. That a device can be told that it’s logged in without a human entering a password is concerning.

@shac It’s possible the token made it to the device but the backend service was down and couldn’t validate it. Once it came back up, that valid token could be authenticated, and boom, you’re logged in. Simple race condition during an outage?

@j_s_j Seems like a client that is in a logged out state and not waiting on a token (login failed) should never accept a token that’s handed to it. Otherwise what does it mean to be logged out if the server and log you in again whenever it wants?