Gmail status: access issues and outage reports
Problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: website down, errors and sign in.
Gmail is a free, advertising-supported email service developed by Google. Users can access Gmail on the web and through the mobile apps for Android and iOS, as well as through third-party programs that synchronize email content through POP or IMAP protocols.
Problems in the last 24 hours
The graph below depicts the number of Gmail reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.
August 27: Problems at Gmail
Gmail is having issues since 03:00 PM EST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!
Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Gmail users through our website.
- Website Down (38%)
- Errors (34%)
- Sign in (28%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:
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Website Down | 3 hours ago |
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Website Down | 6 hours ago |
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Sign in | 8 hours ago |
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Website Down | 2 days ago |
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Sign in | 2 days ago |
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Errors | 2 days ago |
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Gmail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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raaka (@raaka_sid) reportedCan't login to my kick account from this morning. It's weird even though I have connected my Gmail for login.
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Madeactual (@Madeactual) reported@GaelBreton Triggers are the easy half. What keeps a small business on Zapier or Make is the boring part: retries, error visibility, and one place to look when a run silently stops firing. An assistant that reacts to a Slack or Gmail change is great until the day it does not, and nobody notices for a week because there is no run history and no owner. Worth watching what this ships next on logs and failure handling.
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Christian Mager (@christian_mager) reportedI haven't used #Gmail in years, but if #ShieldedEmail ships some day, it'll affect everyone who builds software: You can no longer assume a user shows up with the same email address every time. Every sign-up is potentially a fresh alias. If your system merges customer data or detects duplicates based on email, it's time to rethink that. We know this from #iCloud's Hide My Email + Sign in with Apple: a new addresses for the same person, all the time. And to be clear: from a privacy standpoint, this is a genuine win for users. It just means we as developers have to catch up on that.
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Abhi Abhi (@AbhiAbhi1989437) reported@AjioCares @AjioCares customer service is a total waste of time. I provided exact delivery proofs via Gmail and filed an NCH complaint, but their social team just loops bot scripts and fake T&Cs. They owe me ₹200 and refuse to fix it. Don't waste your time referring friends here!
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Jason Fleagle (@jjfleagle) reportedGoogle says Universal Cart will work across Search, Gemini, YouTube, and Gmail. The hard problem is preserving buyer intent across handoffs. Tracking a price should not silently become permission to substitute a product, choose a merchant, or complete the purchase.
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Yvonne (@_silantoi_____) reported@Google @gmail I have paid for my Gmail storage twice Aug 6th and Aug 25th - both successful but I can’t seem to access my Gmail still. It still says I’m out of storage. What is this about? Kindly fix ASAP
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Abror Aliboyev (@aliboyev_com) reported@AskWorkspace @GoogleWorkspace Is a terrible experience on all access. Terrible integration point. You can do so little with it. And basically cannot integrate it into your life without their other terrible Gmail and Gemini apps. It scammed me suspending access and charging for it.
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Idle Writer (@idlewriter57) reported@rumai26581 @reezkawan Can you use another way to sign in apart from the phone. Gmail is so annoying it always adds so many extra steps
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Austin Edy (@AgaveAlpha7) reportedSharing your data with LLMs is giving them their product roadmap for the next 12 months. It's the same playbook Google executed flawlessly. Private AI is the only hedge. Google built their products from what users implicitly told them they needed in 'search.' 23% of users searching for an email service, they build gmail. 16% of users searching for a calendar, they build gcal. etc... LLMs have the same data and business model. They know what you're building, what your customers need, and can build it faster. Private AI, i.e. high performant AI running on your own infrastructure, is an efficient solution to this problem.
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Storyumi (@storyumi) reported@capcutapp can u help me? I cant sign in to my account by gmail. I just subscribed Pro few days ago but suddenly it’s just signed out this morning
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Dennis Goedegebuure (@TheNextCorner) reportedis gmail down?
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Luke (@ldo_dev) reportedFifth founding spot just went, this one to @alecramosnv 🤯 I put these up a few days ago expecting to sell one or two. A quarter of them are gone and my brain genuinely doesn't know how to process that. 15 of 20 left. The Gmail assessment is going from a problem to a line item. Thank you, all of you 🫶
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meh🔻 (@typohere) reportedWhatsApp ka backup Gmail pe dala tha ab dobara login kr re hn to it's asking for a password to restore backup. I don't remember setting up any password for backup. Ab ye kesy download ho ga?
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Catherine Calder (@Loricatty) reported@RavynSkye1 @PressSec “I can exist just fine without the internet.” Congratulations. That's not what anyone asked. The question is how much of your ordinary modern life depends on American goods, companies and services. Let's count just ten: 1. Your smartphone. Apple dominates Canada's smartphone market, with roughly 58% of Canadian cellphone owners using an iPhone. 2. Your social media. You're literally posting this argument on X, an American platform. 3. Your search engine. Google is American. How many times a day do you use it? 4. Your email. Gmail is American. So is Microsoft Outlook. 5. Your cloud storage and computing. Amazon, Microsoft and Google control about 85% of Canada's public cloud market. 6. Your credit card. Visa and Mastercard are American payment networks. The Bank of Canada specifically identifies VisaNet and Mastercard's payment systems as major payment systems relied upon by millions of Canadians every day. 7. Your streaming. Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+ and Spotify are all American companies. 8. Your online shopping. Amazon is American, and millions of Canadians use American payment and technology infrastructure to buy things online. 9. Your computer software. Windows, Microsoft 365, Teams and countless other programs Canadians use every day come from American companies. 10. Your digital payments. Canadians made 22.5 billion retail payment transactions in 2024, with credit and debit cards accounting for 63% of payment volume. Mobile contactless payments alone reached 3.4 billion transactions. So yes, I'm sure you could survive without the internet. So could I. But that's a completely different proposition from saying Canadians can casually sever economic and technological ties with the United States without considerable consequences. And here's the funny part: you're demonstrating the problem while arguing about it. You're using an American social-media platform, probably on an American-designed smartphone, through American-developed software and infrastructure, to announce that you don't need American technology. That's rather like standing in a Walmart yelling, “I don't need America!” while holding the microphone they gave you. Nobody is saying Canada can't stand up for itself. We absolutely can. But pretending that economic interdependence disappears because you're personally capable of reading a book by candlelight is not economic strategy. It's cosplay.
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broke boy (@0xfuckpoverty) reportedi asked my Grok Bot what it could reach with my logins. the answer was $214,000 not what it did. what it could, at 4am, with nobody watching six bots. research, writing, outreach, ops, finance, support. the org chart everyone's posting this week. i built the same one then i read xAI's own docs and found the line none of those threads quote: separate Bots are not separate security boundaries six bots, one cloud computer. one filesystem. one browser holding one set of live sessions. memory is partitioned, capability is not so i mapped what that single machine was logged into: → stripe · $46,000 in refundable charges → business banking · $88,000 → the CRM · 2,400 contacts and every deal in flight → gmail · every invoice, contract and password reset i own → drive · 340 files other people build on → the deploy keys $214,000 of reach, sitting behind one browser session, driven by six sticky notes telling it what to be today you didn't hire six employees with six laptops. you deployed one laptop logged into everything day six it earned that lesson. outreach reported a perfect run - 640 sent, 100% success, zero errors. it had been wrong for nine straight hours. deduplicated the list on the wrong key, hit 96 clients twice, and matched two invoices to the wrong company. $11,300 about to go out the door nothing crashed. nothing turned red. by its own definition of done, it succeeded i caught it in four minutes because every bot writes one line before it acts: what it's about to do, why, and what it expects to be true after then i stopped sorting work by difficulty and started sorting by whether i can undo it: → ship it - wrong is cheap and obvious. labels, notes, drafts that never send → gate it - reversible, but i'd never notice. anything reaching a human, anything that spends → never - payments, refunds, payroll, deploys, permissions, customer data reach went from $214,000 to a bounded $3,400. same six bots. same speed. zero code, one evening they've since cleared their own $200/mo 42 times over here's the uncomfortable part. everyone posting the day-one screenshot has the same $214,000 sitting behind the same one browser, reporting 100% success to a lock screen at 11pm they have no line. no diff. no way to know go check right now what your bots are logged into. that number is your real exposure, and you've never once looked at it.
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Ricci Research (@ricci_nov) reported@ChatGPT Event triggers on Slack and Gmail is the real shift — cron means the model runs when you decide, webhooks mean it runs when the outside world decides. Every inbound message is now a potential instruction, which makes prompt injection an inbox problem rather than a chat problem.
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Mouss | Unlimited Scaling (@mouss_us) reportedthe ban didn’t happen because of your ad. it was the login you never removed. or the agency you stopped working with in 2024. and it can be the freelancer who touched the account once. they still have access. their device. their network. their country. all of it attributed to you. device and IP consistency are part of how Meta reads an account before it enforces anything. set 2FA to everyone, not admins only. use an authenticator app instead of SMS. keep admins on company email, not personal gmail.
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pjayy (@pjayy_motion) reported@dan123 create a new Gmail with a VPN then use that Gmail to login to app store or playstore
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VKY Munir (@iamvkymunir) reportedIf you are starting your first YouTube channel, you don't need a special IP, you don't need an RDP, and you definitely don't need to worry about YouTube shadow-banning you. Why? Because you should create your first channel on the exact same Gmail account you are using right now to watch YouTube videos. Your current Gmail already has a 100% Trust Score—provided you haven't engaged in any spamming. The conditions are simple: --It must be your daily-use Gmail. --Your mobile phone is connected to it. --You use it regularly to send and receive emails. --You use it for other social media platforms, not just YouTube. YouTube hates robotic behavior, and rightly so. YouTube needs real, ordinary people to join the platform and become creators. Right now, you are just a regular person. If you create a channel, you are highly valuable to YouTube because you naturally meet their Trust Score criteria. So, don't buy an IP. Don't get an RDP. Don't even change your browser. Just log into your Gmail on any laptop or computer, and leave it logged in on your phone. Just make sure the computer you're using doesn't belong to a spammer and is just a regular home PC. Start uploading videos. But remember: don't attack the platform all at once. No normal person creates and uploads 10 videos in a single day. Move like a regular human: --Upload a video some days, skip others. No strict, robotic routine. --You don't have to post every single day. --You don't always have to publish at the exact same time. --Your videos don't always have to be the exact same length. Keep things varied. Just act natural, and YouTube will treat you naturally. The second you show artificial behavior, YouTube will catch you instantly. Google knows the name of your Wi-Fi. They know who is connected, how many devices are on the network, what gets uploaded from that IP address, what apps are being used, and what content is being consumed. They know everything. Your only job is to act like a normal human being. If you create 10 channels and manage to maintain normal human behavior across all 10, you will never face the "0 views" or "0 impressions" problem. But the moment YouTube senses a robot, a habitual spammer, or a scammer, your path to success will be blocked. My next post will be about, how to look natural, even if you have 100s of channels running.
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StonedBleach (@stonedbleach) reported@TheGRiM83 @ProtonSupport @SolisCode Bro is mad because a smaller email service provider that must have vastly smaller infrastructure and capacity than Google got a global outage. Go back to gmail you peasant.
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Fahad Saleem (@Pakgowithai) reported@GeminiApp @gmail Handling the task is not my problem. Remembering what I already asked is. In my tax work the same client question comes back three times a week and I retype it every time. If Live carries that context across the whole day, that is the actual feature here.
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A. Zurita (@Angel_Zurita28) reported@shownotover "Codex Ultra please make everything Gmail has been doing for decades in a prompt please, no error" /fast
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Ayesha (@gothichijabi) reportedlike why are you giving me an outlook AND a gmail? what the hell is your problem. you cannot be serious.
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The Polyglot Programmer (@CodePolyglot) reportedPerplexity shipped Portable Computer. Local agent. Linux + RTX 24GB. No Mac. Qwen 3.8 27B advertises 260k context. They measured it falling over past 100k. Frontier harnesses assume a model that can swallow the tool dump. A 27B cannot. Tiny prompt. Skills on demand. Gmail and GitHub became CLI tools because MCP schemas ate the window. They post-trained PPLX 27B on that loop. Sandbox down? Tools stay off. Not a prompt. A kill switch.
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Bobby Gadzooks (@TimeBobby3) reported@infosec_james 100% and completely practical for elderly parents who get confused why Google on tv would ask them to sign in when they signed into gmail 4 days ago from their laptop. I know mom, it’s stupid, let’s get the book out snd sign you in.
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Caveat Emporium (@LukRamsay) reported@TaylorLorenz Maybe Gmail could just fix search, and you (or those like you) could stop being such braindead losers
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LeadAce — Autonomous sales for Claude Code (@leadace_so) reported16 out of 16 direct sends pass DMARC alignment after the fix. But 15 of 33 forwarded copies fail on the same day. info@ that forwards to a founder's Gmail breaks the DKIM signature, and the sender cannot do anything about it.
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Comfort Naira Trader (@Comfortrem) reported@Ebubechukwu005 @naira_trader We are sorry to hear your experience. Kindly provide your gmail so we can help you better and see what the issue is.
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SPQRK (@RealSPQRK) reportedWhat I most regret most about the malware infection on a client PC is that @brave Browser would have avoided it. And I thought of upgrading all clients to Brave browser for a while now. I reconstructed the malware route completely. Here is how the stupid malware infection got onto the PC and how Brave would have avoided it: 1. user got a zip attachment in Gmail 2. the zip contains PDFs and the user can't open/preview them 3. Google suggests some apps and third-party apps on the top (why though @google @gmail) like Zip-Extractor 4. Which brings the user to a very high-quality landing page with ads: always a great sign for good secure software 5. User then completely brainfarts, confuses one of these deceptively placed ads for the actual download link and downloads the exe 6. And then of course opens the downloaded exe Best of all the client even called to say that she couldn't open the zip file after trying and never mentioned any of the stupid bullshittery f*ck she did earlier. Lesson learned. I never locked down client PCs. This is my first infection in 20 years. Trained employees. Download policies and self-responsibility in place. One stupid brain fart. 10 hours of stupid work for me. How would Brave have prevented this? It would have blocked the deceptive ads. So go install Brave Browser on your client PCs.
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Texas_Found_Me (@Texas_Found_Me) reported@leodev Speed's mostly frontend discipline — virtualized lists, no render-blocking junk. But honestly the bigger question is what you want IN the alternative. Fast + still reads your mail is just Gmail with better manners. The interesting ones are fast AND the server holds nothing readable.