According to a recent update on the new "system status" page on tech giant Apple's developer site, which the company took down on Thursday, July 18, most of the key parts of the site have been brought back online after over one week of downtime.

As per the status page, important parts of the Apple developer portal were flipped back online Friday afternoon. The developer systems which have come back online, after the extended downtime, include the developer sites for iOS, Mac, and Safari development, and the download for forthcoming versions of Apple's desktop and mobile software.

In addition, Apple has also brought back a crucial development tool which includes the mechanism that gives developers the ability to set up new devices for testing their software. Due to the prolonged developer portal downtime, developers could neither enable new devices to run pre-launch versions of Apple's software nor could they test out new apps.

So far as Apple's efforts of bringing the developer systems back online are concerned, the systems which are still offline include technical support, the company's developer forums, pre-release documentation, and videos, among several others.

Meanwhile, without divulging any further details about the security intrusion which forced the company to take down its developer portal and a number of connected services last Thursday, Apple has simply stated that the developer site was "not associated with any customer information," and that the personal information of customers was "securely encrypted."