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 16: Problems at Gmail
Gmail is having issues since 07:20 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 (36%)
- Sign in (26%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:
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Website Down | 7 hours ago |
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Errors | 19 hours ago |
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Sign in | 2 days ago |
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Website Down | 2 days ago |
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Website Down | 2 days ago |
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Gmail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Paul Childs (@pchilds51) reportedAnyone else having email issues with Gmail this evening?
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Shivam Kumar (@vibhu0097) reported@googleaccount @AngelssRj Same problem @googleaccount same gmail otp problem
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Jahid Xyz (@jahidxyz931) reported@IPPBOnline I gmail many times , but yet problem not solve , Please remove lein from my account ASAP I'm ready to pay lien ammount
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Chan (@ChanTheHuman) reported@TeamYouTube I'm still having the issue of a hacked gmail account that was falsely locked with parental controls. Please check my response to your original DM about this when possible. Again, really sorry that I keep pestering. I just want to be sure it's being looked into.
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Fight4America (@Fight4USA4ever) reported@BellatrixLux369 1.) "I can't confirm that." in the video you linked you choose to ignore. 2.) You do realize you can create a Gmail account using any name you select, yes? 3.) Additionally, married couples who trust one another have one another's logins. And even if not, most people save their passwords locally. You'll need more than a saved login with cached credentials.
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Dromoral6241 misses Jax (@dromoral6241) reportedGlitch never replied to my gmail about my Orbsman with the detached weights TuT how should I glue them back on?
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denas (@denasklncs) reported@resend gmail’s tool is just the one-click unsub they already required, two days to honour it. no login, no “tell us why” if that click opens a preference page, the next send from you is a spam signal gmail already logged
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MiKo (@russkiymike) reportedI am having problems while being successful connected to Gmail through Grok Bot not able to read inbox because a review error. Any advice @SpaceXAI ?
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Harshil Tomar (@Hartdrawss) reportedhow to plan a full AI product with @mattpocockuk's wayfinder skill wayfinder is a Claude Code skill for planning work too large and foggy for one session, and it fits AI product development insanely well because most builds begin with a clear outcome but dozens of unresolved decisions underneath it. You might know you want: "an AI support agent that resolves 70% of tickets automatically" but you still need to decide: - what company data the agent can access - which actions require human approval - how memory works across conversations - what happens when an integration fails - how usage connects to billing most vibe-coded products start building before these decisions exist, which is why the database changes twice, onboarding gets rebuilt, frontend waits on backend decisions and Claude rewrites code it shipped 3 days ago. Wayfinder turns that fog into a connected decision map before it becomes expensive code. heres the workflow: 1. DEFINE THE DESTINATION: Start with one concrete product outcome that explains who the user is, what they can do and where the workflow ends. "build an AI sales tool" leaves too much open. "a founder connects Gmail, the agent finds qualified conversations, drafts follow-ups and asks for approval before sending" gives every future decision a clear filter. 2. MAP THE OPEN DECISIONS: Wayfinder works backwards from that destination and identifies the unanswered questions blocking the product, such as Gmail permissions, company memory, approval rules, error handling, user visibility and paid usage. Each question becomes a connected decision ticket, so product context lives in one map instead of disappearing across chats, calls and random docs. 3. FIND THE FRONTIER: Some decisions block several others behind them. You need to define what the agent can access before designing approvals, logs and user permissions. Wayfinder surfaces the open questions that can be resolved right now, giving Claude a useful next step instead of letting it grab the easiest feature in the repo. 4. SPLIT HUMAN AND AGENT WORK: Each decision gets classified by who should resolve it: - HITL: founder judgement, product taste or a business tradeoff - AFK: research Claude can complete using docs, APIs and the codebase Pricing and user experience stay with the founder, while OAuth limitations and integration research can run independently. This keeps the build moving while the important product decisions remain intentional. 5. RESOLVE ONE DECISION PER SESSION: Each session explores one question, records the answer and updates the map. Resolving Gmail scopes can reveal approval rules, which reveal the activity log, which then shapes the database model. The product spec grows through small permanent decisions, and future Claude sessions can understand WHY the system was designed that way instead of guessing from the existing code. 6. TURN THE MAP INTO BUILDABLE WORK: Once the important decisions are clear: - run /to-spec to generate the complete product specification - run /to-tickets to split it into buildable tasks - identify independent tickets agents can execute in parallel - keep blocked work outside active development The result is a build where frontend screens connect to real backend decisions, agent actions have clear boundaries and integrations already have failure paths. Claude can write code fast. Wayfinder makes sure that code is solving the right product decisions before it reaches the repo !
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r.✨™ (@rachj0919) reportedhate when i give away my email to all the businesses that ask so now i have a full gmail storage issue, but also it's too much work to delete emails
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Kristian Ortiz (@Krisortiz350) reported@gmail problems with Gmail new incoming emails no longer bolded?
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David Wampamba (@davidofug) reportedQuick weekend update on my Agentic AI journey. For the first time, my Personal Agentic Assistant(PAA) has sent me an email. What happened? 1. We audited my X account. 2. We agreed on the primary niche. 3. The PAA came up with the topics and content plan. 4. It stored everything in a file. 5. Sent me an email with the file attached. Token costs? Less than $0.45 Challenges: 1. The file format is Markdown. I would prefer a Google doc or Google sheet because I want to be publishing on the go and Markdown files don’t offer the good User Experience on Smartphones. 2. Setting up Google Authentication for the Agent. This is required to ensure secure communication between the agent and gmail. I used the Google App password option. Kudos to Google this doesn’t require a Google Cloud setup, reducing the friction. 3. The file is stored on the same server where the agent lives and this leads to storage competition. What next? Setting up a workflow to maintain the security, updates and upgrades of 2 CyberPanel servers. I will share Updates 🔜 Stay tuned. If you want to learn how to make effective Agentic Assistants for your personal and business needs, I train people like you at an affordable price in days if not hours. Contact Me
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Blake Yoder (@blakeyoder) reported@thsottiaux Was using Claude Code in the terminal, religiously. Switched once I started using Codex on an EC2 server 1. I wish port-forwarding from the remote server to my client machine was more “built-in” and first class. I wrangle it to port forward more often than I’d like 2. There’s bugginess when synching sessions from my phone to my computer. Sometimes they sync, sometimes not at all 3. Love browser annotation, would be sweet if it could send an html block into the thread instead of an image 4. I want to manage multiple connector logins - being able to switch Gmail addresses would be a dream. Really love the product. Keep it up!
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Kuromiya Lucien (@kuromiyalucien) reportedOk don’t e-mail the psych department “ok well I guess I made my diagnosis up then, take me off your records” after forgetting to attach the letter with your diagnosis, bc they will call the cops on you. My gmail just wasn’t loading 😭😭😭 Chrome error almost put me in jail.
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jaipur social media prabhari (@mnfinance2577) reported@OlaElectric @rajnicwa Dear Sir, my Ola Electric app is not working. ola support not response gmail send 7 days Number RJ14ZK6643
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Proton Mail (@ProtonMail) reportedGoogle is shutting down Gmail's "Send as" feature for third-party addresses. If you send from your Outlook or Yahoo account through Gmail, mark your calendar: January 2027. 🧵👇
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Nakuya (泣くや) (@doraenack) reportedgmail is down?
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Arafa Abdul (@arafa_abdu67911) reportedGood morning 🌞 please is it that Sidra support have forgotten about those their Gmail account are hacked, we can't login because of Gmail login now, 👉Sidra Marketplace 🙏 help me remind them about this issue, and to create an alternative Email login for us, thank you
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Alexie (@Alexie_Ai) reportedFirst why most inboxes are a disaster. It's not your fault. Gmail defaults every account to one setting: all emails arrive in one flat list. No categories. No priority. No filtering. Everything from your most important client to a promotional email from a store you bought shoes from in 2019 lands in the same stream. The average professional receives 85+ emails per day. Over a year, that's 22,000+ messages arriving in one undifferentiated pile. Gmail has 15+ organizational tools built in. Labels. Filters. Stars. Categories. Multiple Inboxes. Priority Inbox. Nudges. Snooze. Auto-advance. All of them are turned off or unconfigured by default. The coach's framework: "Gmail isn't broken. It's unconfigured. The difference between email chaos and email clarity is 20 minutes in Settings. Once. The system runs itself after that."
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Temwa Chawinga magic ✨️ (@leewritesalot) reportedAfter going into the dungeons of TikTok to find the settings that disable AI on my gmail and Google Drive, Google then decides to randomly gift me more AI features. I'm sorry, a product can't be that good if it is being constantly being shoved down our throats
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Timur Yessenov (@Timur_Yessenov) reported@jun_song People forgive Gmail for not being the smartest model. They won't forgive it for feeling slow 50 times a day.
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Rulya (@Rulyaxd) reportedHe typed one word into a browser tab and bought back 12 days of his year. The word is briefing. Manus runs a 300 word prompt behind it that reads his Gmail, calendar, Slack and news before he pours the coffee. The trigger is one word. Behind that word sits a saved prompt that acts like a chief of staff brief he wrote once and never has to write again. The prompt tells Manus to sort unread Gmail into ACTION REQUIRED and FYI DIGEST tiers. Then to pull the day's calendar and flag any free block over 90 minutes as a deep work window. After that a three to five sentence summary of active Slack threads, and finally three top stories from a chosen news niche in the last 48 hours with a two sentence brief on each. Then it tells Manus to render the whole thing as an HTML card following Apple Human Interface Guidelines. Frosted glass, SF Pro, light mode, one full width card per row. The output lands as a dashboard with his name on it at 6:30 AM EDT. Calendar block, emails needing an answer, Slack actions, and news items, all in one place he can scan in the time it takes to pour a coffee. The moat here is the prompt he wrote once and the trigger word he mapped it to. The model underneath is downstream of both. Manus just runs the workflow in a real cloud computer wired into Gmail, Calendar, Slack, and Google News. The people who still spend 40 minutes on their inbox every morning are typing more words than they need to type. Whoever writes a 300 word prompt once and maps it to a single trigger gets the last 40 minutes of every morning back forever. That is roughly 12 days a year that used to belong to Gmail. A quiet bag most productivity content pretends does not exist. What is the one workflow you rebuild from scratch every Monday morning that would collapse into a single word if you sat down for 20 minutes to write the prompt?
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Momar ★☆ (@247momar) reported@mymannemcee @JibriHashim the only solution is to stop using a gmail email-address, that's not an Apple Mail issue
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Material Security (@material_sec) reported@antgrasso The copy-paste case is the visible half of shadow AI. The other half is tools that get connected via OAuth instead of a browser tab. Someone runs a Google sign-in prompt for an AI tool and approves the Drive or Gmail scopes it asks for on the way through, in about two seconds, because the consent screen looks like every other login. That one doesn't require anyone to paste anything sensitive anywhere. The access is just sitting there, working quietly, and most governance conversations about shadow AI don't include it because it doesn't look like the classic story of an employee pasting something into ChatGPT.
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Johnny miller (@johnnyjmils) reportedWhen Google shut down my You Tube channel. They also closed my Gmail. I’d had that account for decades. And it’s how old friends would contact me. Should tech companies be allowed to arbitrarily close people’s email accounts? Call me crazy. But I think not. I’m more annoyed about that than my You Tube channel. Sorry for Tadhg. It was promoting peace with Iran that did it for me.
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BARON 🐂 (@BARONMOND_1) reported@OptimusVibee @fomo Good look. Just locked my Gmail down. Security first
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Luke Alexander (@Lukealexxander) reportedTaking a call, going to Gmail, grabbing recording, updating CRM, sending follow up, attaching docs manually… It’s all way too slow manual and takes reps out of doing what they do best (SELLING) So we fixed it forever. Reps will never have to leave 2-3 pages inside of Kendo to do their entire job + all of this context is used for your own AI on the manager level making the whole team more efficient
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D Fitzy (@DorFitz22) reported@TeamYouTube My channel was hacked and recovered, but the hacker deleted my original hotmail email. My original Adsense account is now orphaned, and I cannot re-link monetization to my new Gmail. I need a link to the Hijacking Form to fix an Adsense transfer.
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SUNDAY MICHEAL OLAWUNI (@Jsmike03) reported@maljafeiri Please I can't access my Sidra account, I'm having issues with Gmail OTP CODE. Please help me out ... Please 🙏🙏🙏.I'm waiting for your response please.
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𝒥𝒶𝓎 (@Jeraelle_) reportedhi sir, @SamuelOtigba @Tunde_OD @hackSultan thank you for the scholarship opportunity. i applied for the altschool scholarship and made payment using the scholarship code but i kept getting message that i haven’t applied and i will be deleted from the program if i don’t apply. my account has been deleted and my learning stopped. also, i do not have access to the course anymore but receive email from altschool. though i used a different email to sign up because i applied for the scholarship using my yahoo mail and could only sign in to the portal with a gmail account. kindly look into this sir, thank you and warm regards.