I'm having this issue as well. I can't say when it started as I've been working on android for a bit, but tried debugging on an iPhone today and had this issue. Like one of the above posts, I tried removing and re-adding the apple account and keep getting the same error:
There was an error while trying to log in: Authentication service is unavailable.
JonCrawfordC2IT
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