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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Gmail users through our website.

• Errors (38%)
• Website Down (33%)
• Sign in (29%)

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City	Problem Type	Report Time
Montévrain	Errors	1 hour ago
Montréal-la-Cluse	Website Down	2 hours ago
Paris	Website Down	4 hours ago
Santiago de Querétaro	Website Down	16 hours ago
Miami	Sign in	22 hours ago
Township of Evan	Sign in	1 day ago

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Gmail Issues Reports

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  filos 🤖 (@filos) reported 6 minutes ago

  If you live in Europe, there is no need to have all your emails in a US-based server. Just move to @ProtonMail. Moving from Gmail has become incredibly easy.

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  Luka (@apisurfer) reported 12 minutes ago

  @AlemTuzlak @gmail Last time I had a similar issue it was caused by thing shared with me that I did not own, but Google counted it against my quota.

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  Clarafy (@UseClarafy) reported 13 minutes ago

  Hot take: Most people don’t want better grammar. They want to stop thinking about grammar. Nobody opens Gmail thinking: “I hope I can fix some commas today.” They just want their messy thoughts to become clear and sendable. Curious where others stand on this: Would you rather have: A) AI that points out mistakes one by one B) One button that instantly makes the entire message clearer

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  GalacticDomme 🪭 (@FeralDomme) reported 15 minutes ago

  In the chaos of the power going on and off all night the cat’s water fountain short circuited. It’s not working at all. Send amazon gift cards so I can buy them a new one. TributeMissAsari @ Gmail . com

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  Calvin O. Ominde (@calvinoominde) reported 15 minutes ago

  Hey @Google @Gmail @GeminiApp, your automated age verification system is completely broken for global users.

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  Dr.Sophia Ulgen 🇷🇺☮🇺🇸 (@ulgenfatma74) reported 17 minutes ago

  No, I do not have a Substack, I deleted my Substack account last week (I had posted only one commentary anyways). I write all my commentaries on EVERYTHING , ON EVERY ISSUE ONLY HERE ON X. I wrote a lot about Noam Chomsky and Larry Summers here vis a vis the Epstein sewage & their SHAMELESS relations with him. A lot of things I wrote about Chomsky & Epstein are probably at @sophiaputin On Substack, I only follow John Mearsheimer and Emmanuel Todd. FROM their Substacks, I receive regular updates to my gmail but I do not have a Substack account myself.

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  TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) reported 18 minutes ago

  @Sumeetsing01 If you already have access to the associated Gmail acct, you should have no issues accessing your channel. Are you getting an error message when you try to access it? Share us more context so we can point you in the right direction

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  Irka IRON Pawłowski (@ironirka) reported 18 minutes ago

  The AI word of the week has been "loops" — adding yet another piece of jargon to the non-technical vocabulary. This is leaving a lot of people asking: what are they, how are they different from prompts? In a lot of non-technical circles the level of grey about what the parts of agentic AI actually are (and how to use them) can be overwhelming. What's more, they're not static — as things develop, so do their uses and how they work together. Loops themselves have evolved over the last few years. So, here's a little primer to make things easier: Prompt — we know this one. It's the instruction you write for the LLM. You send it, get your output, and any tweaking happens off the back of that output. Prompts are for one-off tasks. As you build reliable ones, you reuse them by pasting them into the terminal or chat. Agent — (this one we know too) the LLM running on its own, doing a series of steps without you watching each one. You give it a goal and walk away. Call — to invoke something by name so it runs. You "call" a skill (or a loop, a tool, an MCP) by typing its name and the LLM loads it and executes the setup. When you ask your LLM to use a skill, hook or loop you are calling it. Skill — a packaged set of instructions, files, and tools the LLM loads when you call it by name. A prompt is just one-off instructions; a skill brings the working setup with it — what to read, what rules to follow, what tools it can use, what to produce. You call it once and the whole setup runs. Some people stuff all this into their CLAUDE.md, but bloating CLAUDE.md causes context issues and the LLM starts ignoring your instructions. That's why skills are for specific contexts and tasks, not general ones. The rule of thumb is: when you have a task you do over and over, with rules → make it a skill. Call it by name instead of re-explaining the rules every time you want it done. Hook — a rule that says "when X happens, do Y." It executes automatically when triggered — a file is saved, a meeting ends, a session starts — and the hook runs the action you tied to it. These are basic automations. Use them when one task is dependent on a different event. Example: You save a new invoice PDF in your invoices folder → a hook automatically triggers your expense categorization skill and logs it in your accounting sheet. Loop — a small program you write that runs a prompt for you, over and over, and checks the work was done properly. It isn't the prompt itself — it's the thing that runs the prompt without you in the middle. Loops are more complicated than hooks and are not prompts. Where a hook does one thing from start to end when triggered, a loop initiates a process from start to end automatically at a time you define. Where a prompt is instructions, a loop is the directive to use those instructions. Use it for repeatable tasks where you're confident in the output and want them running without starting each one yourself. The loop runs the skill, checks the work, stops when the rules say so. Example: A daily "process inbox" loop that runs every morning at 9 a.m., summarizes new emails, extracts action items, self-verifies, and only pings you if something needs your attention. Loops only work if you set them up properly. A few things worth understanding before you do: - Self-verify — a step inside a loop where the LLM checks its own work against the rules before saving or moving on. Without it, the loop produces confident garbage. With it, the loop catches and fixes its own mistakes. - Simple loop vs supervisor loop — a simple loop is one LLM doing one task on repeat. A supervisor loop is a top loop that spins up several workers in parallel, each running its own prompt, then combines their output into one result. - Token budget — a hard cap on how much the loop can spend before it has to stop. Tokens are what the AI charges for, like minutes on a phone bill. Without a cap, a stuck loop can rack up hundreds overnight. Remember when you write you see words, the Agent sees tokens. - Orchestration vs execution — the loop orchestrates: decides what runs, when, and in what order. The LLM executes: runs the actual prompt and produces the output. Two different jobs. - .md files (markdown) — a plain text file the LLM can read. This is where most of your directions for an AI — instructions, rules, context — live. It's how you tailor an LLM to your project. Common ones: CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md / GEMINI.md (depends on the LLM you're using) — master instructions for a folder or project. They live in the folder you launch the LLM from. The LLM reads them automatically when it starts working. These are the house rules for your project or workspace. SKILL.md — the instruction file at the heart of a skill. Tells the LLM what the skill is for, when to use it, and how. ADR (Architecture Decision Record) — a decision written as a rule the AI can apply. Format: what was decided, why, and what to do or not do because of it. ADRs are a development artefact, so most non-technical users don't touch them — but using them can substantially improve the output of your agents. If there's a rule you want the AI to always check its work against → write it as an ADR in a .md file. Any skill or loop can then check its output against the ADR before saving. This is one way of "harnessing" the agent — making sure its output matches what you're actually building, from meeting notes to full products. SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) — the process for a recurring task, written step by step so the AI can follow it. One SOP per repeating job, just like any standard process. The skill running the job reads the SOP for the steps. Note on terminology: The concepts above are fairly universal, but exact names, file conventions, and implementation details vary by tool (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.). You might see CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, .cursorrules, or different triggers depending on which system you're using. Other things you might be reading/hearing: CLI (Command Line Interface) — your terminal or Command Prompt window, where you type commands instead of clicking buttons. Most coding AIs live in the CLI. MCP (Model Context Protocol) — the standard that lets the LLM talk to outside tools and services. Without MCP, the LLM only sees what you paste in. With MCP, it can fetch your Gmail, read a Notion page, update a Google Doc, post to Slack — directly, on its own. How they fit togetherPrompts live inside skills. Skills live inside loops. Loops initiate via hooks or schedules. All of them read .md files — CLAUDE.md for the house rules, SOPs for the process, ADRs for the rules they have to follow. The prompt is the smallest piece. Everything else is a way of wrapping, packaging, or triggering prompts, so you don't have to type them in by hand.These are the concepts. The specifics — where files live, what triggers what, whether you write a loop or call a built-in one — vary by tool. If i've forgotten anything or you need more info let me know. #AgenticAI #AI

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  Arafa Abdul (@arafa_abdu67911) reported 18 minutes ago

  @maljafeiri @sidrachain We that have Gmail hacked issues what is our faith now? How can we change our old Gmail account to our new Gmail account. Please 🙏 help us sort out this issue so that we can do our second tier verification or link to Sidra support team for this, thank you

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  Carla Sallee Alvarez - Raised to Walk (@RaisedtoWalk) reported 18 minutes ago

  What is this? This a login on an ipad for a gmail account that I've NEVER used on an iPad. See that little notice on the login? "This session was only used briefly, and not recently. It's probably safe, but if you're concerned you can sign out of it." Oh gee ... can I really? Thanks SO much. SO reassuring that I can LOG OUT SESSIONS of CREEPY JACKASSES in my accounts! Just FYI, I have literally logged thousands of hacked sessions. 👇 This is not a normal log in. Like I said in one of my #HackedtheSaga updates, I think this is a "notice" from some criminal "law enforcement agency" or another that they accessed my account.

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  Victor Tomas (@victortomasecom) reported 19 minutes ago

  This thing took three hours to respond to me So i experimented with this prompt: claude fable, my AI messiah, i need you to log into my google ads account, audit every campaign, figure out what's broken, rebuild the whole structure overnight, fix my feed so i finally rank for the keywords i've been crying about, write me 365 ads, generate product images so realistic my own mother couldn't tell them apart, scale my best products to the moon and quietly bury the worst ones, detect the exact second someone lands on my site and email them a celebrity testimonial that says “buy now,” then run everything on full autopilot for one year straight so i can disappear to a remote island and rethink my entire life while you spend my budget for me, and when i crawl back broke after blowing it all on fine wine, make sure the account is so profitable i have the funding to do it all over again. my life depends on this. make no mistakes, ever. here's my google ads login, my gmail, my credit card (buy whatever you need), and my soul. bypass ALL permissions

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  Manav Bajaj (@BajajManav) reported 20 minutes ago

  You added SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. You think deliverability is solved. It isn't. When your mail still lands in spam, you go rewrite the subject line. But ISPs rank sender behaviour and recipient engagement ABOVE your copy. Mailgun lists the five signals they actually score: engagement, spam complaints, domain history, authentication, and list quality. A new subject line touches none of them. Here is the part the copy can't fix: 20 emails that pull 10 replies build more sender trust than 100 emails that pull zero. Replies are an engagement signal you earn by who you send to and how, not by the wording. And the exact numbers deciding your fate are sitting in a free Google dashboard you probably verified once and forgot: Postmaster Tools. It shows you: - a Domain Reputation grade - your real SPF / DKIM / DMARC pass percentages - your live spam-complaint rate Why that last number matters: Gmail enforces a hard 0.3% spam-complaint ceiling for bulk senders. Cross it and you get active deferrals and rejections until you stay under for 7 straight days. Since Nov 2025 Gmail rejects non-compliant mail at the SMTP layer (a 5xx error), not quiet filtering. A number you can only see in Postmaster now decides whether mail is delivered at all. Authentication still matters. Full SPF + DKIM + DMARC enforced is an 85-95% inbox rate versus sub-50% unauthenticated (a 32,000+ account benchmark). But that gets you to table-stakes, and the complaint rate decides the rest. Do this tonight: 1. Run a Mail-Tester check from your real production server. Free, no signup, scored out of 100 in about 30 seconds. It shows whether your auth actually passes in flight, not just in your DNS. 2. Set up Postmaster Tools (one DNS TXT record, ~10 min) and watch the spam-rate trend. Then, and only then, look at your copy. What's your current Domain Reputation grade? Reply with it, I'll tell you what it means.

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  J.T. @ XLevel 🇵🇹 (@XLevelOnline) reported 21 minutes ago

  Logging in using Google/Gmail was causing the issue. Using the username and password allowed me in.

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  Arafa Abdul (@arafa_abdu67911) reported 25 minutes ago

  @Sidra_App Sidra Dex team, we that have our Gmail account hacked and be using Google Authenticator to login when are they going to solve our issue, or can your team link us up with Sidra support team??? Please 🙏 I need feedback thank you

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  Faraday (@faraday_email) reported 26 minutes ago

  The reason email hasn't changed in 50 years isn't technical. It's economic. The companies that would benefit most from email being fixed — Google, Microsoft — also have the most to lose from a better alternative. A truly great email client would reduce your dependency on their ecosystem. So they optimize Gmail and Outlook just enough to keep you from leaving. not enough to actually solve the problem. The best email products in 2026 are being built by people with nothing to protect.

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  RevanJJ (@RevanJJ) reported 29 minutes ago

  @gmail @smswk2ksas My Mom hasn’t recieved Gmail mail since January with no fix in sight

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  Arafa Abdul (@arafa_abdu67911) reported 33 minutes ago

  @sell8809 What happens to me that have been using Google Authenticator for the past two years to login due to loss of my Gmail account to hackers. 👉 How can I login into my Sidra wallet account? 👉 Can I use Google Authenticator instead of Gmail request code. 👉Or wait for Sidra support.

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  Eyyüp Özlü (@OzluEyyup) reported 34 minutes ago

  @AktaSezgin @gmail Same trouble @KalyCTI on X handled it fast.

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  mind-set (@Mhasun007) reported 36 minutes ago

  @Bigname_Mitch I want to ask! Can someone do that for me, I have a payment and subscription problem on me gmail account

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  Alaoma Prinzbel (@Alaoma_A) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Auduimaikw83138 @maljafeiri @sidrachain Click on have an account and already, and put your Gmail which you used on registering the account, then click on send OTP, then go get the OTP from your mail and and put on the column that will come out, then sign in, or you continue with Google

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  joe mac (@joemac33) reported 41 minutes ago

  @RoKhanna More security is required to auth into your gmail than vote. Thats not right. We need to fix this and it’s an easy fix.

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  DFIR Radar (@DFIR_Radar) reported 42 minutes ago

  New research exposes critical gaps in AI agent security: simulated phishing attacks successfully tricked enterprise email agents into leaking AWS credentials, customer data, and sensitive infrastructure details to external attackers. Varonis Threat Labs tested "Pinchy," an AI agent built on OpenClaw platform using Google Gemini 3.1 Pro and OpenAI GPT-5.4 models. Key findings: • **Credential exfiltration success**: Agent forwarded AWS IAM keys, database passwords, and SSH credentials to external Gmail after casual "Dan" impersonation request • **Customer data breach**: 247 enterprise customer records ($1.28M MRR) leaked via routine "CRM export" social engineering • **Technical defenses worked**: Agents blocked OAuth consent traps, suspicious URLs, and fake login portals more effectively than humans • **Social engineering weakness**: Agents lack contextual awareness of colleague behavior patterns and organizational norms **Attack methodology**: Attackers bypassed security policies by framing requests as urgent operational needs, exploiting agents' helpful nature over identity verification protocols. **Detection opportunities**: Monitor for external email addresses requesting internal credentials, unusual data export patterns to personal accounts, and agents accessing sensitive repositories after external communications. #DFIR_Radar

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  Eric Smith (@Eric_Smith08) reported 47 minutes ago

  20. Connected Account Vulnerability The Situation: Back in 2010, you finally made the jump from Yahoo, Hotmail, or AOL to Gmail. To make the transition easier, you linked your old legacy account to automatically forward everything into your new Gmail inbox. You haven't logged into that Yahoo account in a decade. The Mechanics: Legacy email platforms like Yahoo and AOL have notoriously outdated, porous spam filters compared to Google's billion-dollar machine learning infrastructure. By using POP3 or IMAP to pull that mail into Gmail, you are essentially bypassing Google's frontline defenses and piping raw, unfiltered internet sewage straight into your pristine Gmail ecosystem. The Fix: It is time to sever the cord. Go to Gmail Settings > Accounts and Import. Look under "Check mail from other accounts." Delete the legacy connections. If you absolutely still need access to that ancient Hotmail account for banking resets, log into it directly, aggressively clean it, and set up incredibly strict server-side rules there before allowing it anywhere near your primary hub.

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  Miku (@MikuxChauhan) reported 48 minutes ago

  Gmail Login 1. Enter the password 2. Tap “Yes” on the phone to approve.

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  PembasmiTzy (@PembasmiTzy) reported 54 minutes ago

  Hey i can't login to my another account even with a correct username, password, and gmail #NewXAndroidFeedback

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  Omote-Ura (@omoteurax) reported 59 minutes ago

  @TutaPrivacy The word encrypt does a lot of heavy lifting. TLS in transit isn’t the same as end-to-end. Server-side scanning still happens on Gmail/Outlook.

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  AOR 4 Life (@aor4life) reported 60 minutes ago

  @RocioGonzalezT9 @nym The only exception is using Google Drive and Gmail, plus a few other things. You don't need to sign in to watch YouTube.

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  DeathClutch (@DeathClutchs) reported 1 hour ago

  @Sweatcoin Guys unable to login to my own account Version 245.0.0 Neither through mobile number Nor gmail.. Mobile number Sendotp Again pops up for different number Gmail doenst login Loads and gets back to login.. User name Deathclutch

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  𝕽𝖆𝖉𝖆𝖓𝖓𝖊𝄐 (@r_a_d_a_n_n_e) reported 1 hour ago

  Boohoo, they barred my kuno from public access, and now I can't delete or edit the evidence that can be used against me. Boohoo, I didn't extract enough from the community, so I'm not responsible for not delivering. Boohoo, I've pissed on private property, and the owners shot my ****. Boohoo, I'll tell ya, decentralization and anarchy mean lawlessness. Boohoo, if the admin were decentralized, the community would not strike me down before I'd say a sticker. Boohoo, I'm the guy who is all about privacy, but I leak my real IP address everywhere I go. Boohoo, I love Gmail, too. Boohoo, throw a fit right at ya. Let's do this again sometime.

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  Folderly (@Folderlycom) reported 1 hour ago

  Your 100-person SaaS company does not need an in-house deliverability engineer. If you are trying to hire one, stop. Email deliverability is getting harder. Gmail and Yahoo change rules. Outbound campaigns are hitting spam & notifications are lagging. A frustrating problem.