Gmail status: access issues and outage reports

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.

Most Reported Problems

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

• Website Down (40%)
• Sign in (33%)
• Errors (27%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Poussan	Errors	2 hours ago
Ensenada	Sign in	3 hours ago
Piura	Sign in	23 hours ago
Eugene	Website Down	2 days ago
Macon	Errors	2 days ago
London	Errors	3 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Gmail Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Osnat Lidor (@lidor_osnat) reported 4 seconds ago

  1. Find intent before you write anything Grok’s real advantage vs other models is live public X + web search. Use that for signals, not generic “write me a blog.” Ask it to: Pull how your ICP actually describes the problem this week (exact phrases, not marketing-speak). Find posts where people complain about a competitor, ask for alternatives, or announce a relevant hire/launch. Scan a target account’s recent news, jobs, and exec posts and extract 2–3 business priorities you can attach your product to. That language becomes better ads, landing pages, and first lines than anything invented from a persona doc. Treat every list as a research draft and verify people/companies yourself. Starter prompt: “Search X and the web for the last 14 days. Find posts from [title] at [company type] describing [problem you solve] or looking for an alternative to [competitor]. Quote the original language. Score each 1–10 for buying intent. Ignore generic venting.” 2. Build inbound assets that both humans and AIs can cite Website + content still drive a large share of B2B pipeline, and “generative engine optimization” now matters: buyers ask Grok / ChatGPT / Perplexity for software recommendations. Structure pages so an answer engine can extract a clean definition, comparison, and proof. Have Grok: Turn one customer win into a case study, comparison page, implementation guide, and FAQ cluster. Write definition-first sections (“X is…”, “Choose X when…”), question-style H2s, and short self-contained paragraphs. Produce an SEO/GEO brief: primary query, related questions, stats to source, internal links, and a “quotable” 2–3 sentence answer block. Then publish the best facts in crawlable HTML, not only behind a form. Gated PDFs are leads; public HTML is how AIs mention you. I can also turn those briefs into a Word doc, one-pager PDF, or slide deck you can ship. 3. Multiply one asset across the funnel One strong source (webinar transcript, customer interview, product changelog, whitepaper) should become: 1 long-form page 3–5 LinkedIn posts / X threads a 3–5 email nurture ad variants a sales one-pager Grok is good at this if you lock voice and constraints: tone, claims you can legally make, words you never use, CTA by stage. Ask for variants, not one “perfect” draft. Human-edit anything that goes live. 4. Personalize outbound without sounding like a bot Grok does not replace your list, sequencer, or judgment. It is best at research and tightening copy you already have. Workflow that actually works: You pick the account. Paste homepage copy, a press release, two job posts, and a LinkedIn About. Ask for priorities + one specific observation that ties to your offer. Ask for a 20-word opener that references a real detail—or “nothing specific, don’t invent.” You send. Never let it invent titles, emails, or flattery. At a startup, quality of 30 messages beats volume of 3,000. 5. Arm sales so marketing-sourced leads don’t stall Pipeline dies in the handoff. Use Grok to produce: Account briefs the morning of a call Objection handling from real competitor language on X Battle cards and “why us vs them” one-pagers Recap emails from call notes Simple decks for a first meeting If you connect CRM / Gmail / Slack (where available), it can draft in your tools and leave send/update for a human. That is the safe pattern GTM teams are using with Grok Bot-style workflows. 6. Run a weekly operating rhythm, not random chats The teams getting leverage treat Grok like a junior analyst with a standing brief: Monday: competitor and category scan (what changed, what buyers said). Midweek: content and ad variants from one approved source asset. Friday: “what should we test next” from performance notes you paste in. You can also use scheduled Automations so a research prompt runs on a cadence and you wake up to a digest instead of a blank page. What not to do Do not auto-send cold email or LinkedIn from raw Grok output. Do not use generated images as finished brand creative for customer-facing campaigns; they are fine for internal mockups and ideation. Do not treat citations or company facts as final without a source check. Do not optimize only for “more MQLs.” Optimize for meetings and opportunities with your ICP. Highest-leverage first week for a small SaaS team Feed Grok 3 customer calls + your ICP and extract the exact problem language. Rebuild your top 3 high-intent pages (comparison, use-case, pricing/FAQ) so they are quotable. Turn one closed-won story into a case study + LinkedIn series + 4-email sequence. Build a 15-account research pack and personalized openers for outbound. Give sales a one-page “how to talk about us vs [top competitor]” they will actually use. If you tell me your product, ICP (title + company type), and whether you lean inbound or outbound, I can draft the first asset set in this chat—positioning lines, page outline, email sequence, or X/LinkedIn posts—ready for you to edit.

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  Spectra☢️ (@Spectra010s) reported 2 minutes ago

  @MayowaSWE I prefer email and password to Google sign in for the first time Reason: If I use Google sign in, then I have to sign in my Gmail on someone's else phone if I need that account But i can use email and password first then connect Oauth

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  nivak (@nivak86) reported 12 minutes ago

  @ryanvogel iCloud for personal with my own domain gmail for my company with many aliases Namecheap server for tertiary site emails

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  dx80834 (@dx80834) reported 14 minutes ago

  @SmugAlana Honestly get rid of Gmail. Move to something like proton, somehow noticed friends have less issues with account security when they moved their emails from Gmail.

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  Prashant kumar (@Prashan88148198) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Google Please help me my gmail account is comprised by parent control hyjacking. Give any solution of this compromise service break down

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  ☆~ ASHTHA ~☆ (@DivyaKashy43898) reported 16 minutes ago

  @XSupport My friend is unable to access their X account @cuteshivi77. The password is correct, but X keeps showing “Incorrect Password.” We have requested a password reset several times, but the OTP/reset email is not being received on the registered Gmail account. Please look into this issue and help restore access to the account. Kindly fix the password reset/OTP issue as soon as possible. 🙏 #XSupport #AccountRecovery #PasswordReset

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  Joshua D Morrison (@JMorrison2850) reported 22 minutes ago

  @AMoser_E @TutaPrivacy @ProtonMail If you make a Proton account, and sink Gmail to it. Pick at it. Don't make it a chore. A couple of accounts at a time, or one, or binge it. Whatever. It is possible to degoogle yourself. I degoogled and deMicrosofted myself. I am fully on Linux (Mint), and on Calyx OS for phone. Slow and steady wins the race friend. A sandwich isn't consumed in one bite, but many.

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  lasan (@las_nish) reported 25 minutes ago

  Comparisons of Free Trial Abuse Prevention Services If you're running a SaaS with a free trial or focusing on PLG, authentication and abuse prevention are not the same problem. - WorkOS: If you're already using WorkOS, WorkOS Radar is probably the first thing I'd look at. For a WorkOS stack, WorkOS AuthKit + Radar makes the most sense. You don't need to bolt another authentication system onto your app just to get abuse signals. - Auth0, Supabase Auth, Better Auth: These are primarily identity/authentication platforms. Integrating only these can't prevent free trial abuse. - Custom: Like the previous options, you need a custom way to prevent free trial abuse. Most free trial abuse methods involve disposable emails, Google dot variations, Google/Gmail domain variations, and plus addressing. That's why even when you block bots via Cloudflare Turnstile or CAPTCHA, you can still get these abusers. The industry standards: - Block free trial abuse using lists hosted on GitHub: This is a pain in the ***. If you don't want to pay money, you can use a service that offers a generous free tier. - WorkOS Radar: This is mainly used at the enterprise level. They focus more on WorkOS-related integrations rather than integrations with other providers. - ZeroBounce, NeverBounce, MillionVerifier, DeBounce: These are mainly used to clean/validate emails. There are 100s of alternatives, and most are similar with minor differences. They all have disposable email checking APIs. - UserCheck: This is also an email validation API, but they focus on blocking fake email addresses. It's better than a basic email verification API. - Autheona: This is in the same category as WorkOS Radar and UserCheck, but with more features. It also focuses on fake user detection and is growing with a real user base. Now, pricing: - WorkOS Radar: First 1,000 checks free, then $100 per 50 checks. No application-specific logic changes. Easy to integrate and manage. - ZeroBounce: 100 free validations in the free tier, then pay-as-you-go, starting at 2,000 for $39, and so on. - NeverBounce: No free trial or use case, $8 per 1,000 checks. - UserCheck: 1,000 API requests per month in the free plan. The rule-based engine is not included in the free plan, and you can get up to 1 request per second. - Autheona: 3,000 checks per month, with the rule-based policy engine included. Standard API request rate limitations apply, similar to paid plans. Now, use cases: - WorkOS Radar: Block disposable emails, plus addressing, and Google dot variations. - ZeroBounce, NeverBounce, etc.: Block disposable emails. - UserCheck: Block disposable emails, plus addressing, and Google dot variations; detect public emails; email suggestions; syntax validation; role detection. - Autheona: Everything included in UserCheck, plus business/free/government email identification, deliverability checks, fraud patterns, punycode and mixed-script checks, VPN detection, and bot detection (not necessary if you already use CAPTCHA, Cloudflare, etc.). Final decision from me: - Use WorkOS Radar if you're already in the WorkOS ecosystem. It's harder to integrate with other auth providers. - Use ZeroBounce-like APIs if you need basic disposable email checks. They're not as good if you need a better free tier. - Use UserCheck if you only need email-related validation and want to stay within the free plan. - Use Autheona if you need the most generous free tier available with a custom policy engine. All services take a maximum of a few hours to integrate and test. Both UserCheck and Autheona have a similar approach: integrate once and never touch the code again.

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  Gauransh soni (@gauranshsoni) reported 27 minutes ago

  @rowancheung I use Gmail help me write because I just dumb down what I want to do, and it writes me a decent-ish email to things like support or so.

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  Ashley (@SheRunsCode) reported 31 minutes ago

  Almanac. YC S26. Own computer. Text it work; it texts when it's done. Slack and iMessage. A wiki it reads before it acts. Pauses at login, payment, or a decision it should not make alone. 7-day trial on all plans. Opened HN stamp: 19 hours ago on September 1, 55 points, 47 comments. Product Hunt: launched this week, 211 followers, 3.0 from 1 review. No rank on that page. No dollars on the homepage I opened. I did not connect Gmail. Not Runway's agent. Would you text a computer work, or keep a tab open to watch it?

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  Robotrout (@traut21) reported 34 minutes ago

  @ProtonSupport still not receiving emails from any linked external accounts (Gmail) since the outage.

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  Florian Beer (@azath0th) reported 35 minutes ago

  @ericlbarnes Been using it since I switched to Mac over 20 years ago. Multiple IMAP accounts with tens of thousands of emails. Never had any problem. Even use Gmail exclusively via Apple Mail.

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  Austin (@IamAroke) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Harshsharma836 The issue isn't really about Gmail specifically being too broad, it's the leading % in the LIKE pattern. Even a rare domain would still force the same full scan since the wildcard sits at the start

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  Andrew Linder (@andrewmlinder46) reported 39 minutes ago

  @TeamYouTube Yes that link does not work I tried that a few times but I cannot login and go through the process of accessing my Gmail. So I will need some additional help please.

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  Prax Lannister 🧑‍💻 (@ByteByByteSrSDE) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Teslaconomics I really really need it Hey Little bit about me ,I have been using Grok Bot to Get job after being jobless and without money so I got grok bot taking loan and using it since 2 weeks and i use it for Job search , / apply / followup / note down , connecting gmail notion etc , also I have been using it to prepare learn and summarize new paper and trend form x and ArXiv , as i suffer from depressions i have created RAG database f Anxiety and depression related books and created therapist bot to whom I reach out to now and. the but all of this is very very less for me and i usually tend to loose out on. my limit in 1 day but i cant pay more and i really need it right now also due to price parity $1 is for us Indian 100 times more as $1 =. 100 Rupees approximately Really hoping I can somehow get support for $200 Cursor or $300 SuperGrok Heavy Account , it will be really really helpful for me really 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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  Slodds (@Slodds) reported 42 minutes ago

  @ChrisCoffee @Meta WIld. Had my 30 year gmail account shut down a couple weeks back, still don't know why(everything attatched to it.) Crazy you can lose all those years of work though at a companies whim.

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  Carla (@Carla2773864419) reported 42 minutes ago

  @CMDRVALTHOR I got rid of my Gmail account and they DELETED more than half of my phone numbers in my I phone. go back to the good ole fashioned way and write down the numbers you want. For me, I don't care. I got rid of most of my past in the last 8 years so it was no big deal. google=evil

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  Ziwen (@ziwenxu_) reported 44 minutes ago

  @theo Not really my antigravity is banned but i can still login to gmail

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  Sukhwinder | Ecom Email Marketing (@HeySukhwinder) reported 45 minutes ago

  Your customer didn't compare you in a spreadsheet. They compared you in Gmail - against the brand that emailed them yesterday. Your Klaviyo overview is not the shelf. The shared inbox is. Open a dummy address. Join 3-5 competitor lists. For two weeks, write down: how often they write, whether they sound like a person, whether every send is a sale. Don't steal their discount cadence. Don't steal their product tiles. Don't steal the fake "team" voice. Steal the gap. They never explain how to use it. They never put a human name on it. They never admit a miss. That's the room you can occupy. Stop guessing what "good email" looks like. Read the inbox your buyer actually lives in - then sound like the brand that isn't yelling. P.S. Have you built a brand that's fun, engaging, and makes 5+ figures a month on Shopify? Want to turn email into a community-powered revenue engine - without boring, robotic emails? DM me 'GROWTH'.

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  MostlyHarmless (@harmless_human) reported 47 minutes ago

  @rallynate @kbean511 There has probably been a data center near most of them for years and they didnt know. Where do they think netflix and youtube video is stored and all the photos on grandma facebook and gmail account they never delete anything from? The real issue is the mega computer centers running AI programming that shouldnt even be called data centers.

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  Rabiisu (@Taimoor_khan01) reported 48 minutes ago

  @HeyGen Important Note: Hi Heygen Support Team! I subscribe Heygen Pro Since May 2019. 1 week ago the gmail i used to signup Heygen Subscription was compromised and i talk to Mail Team to immediately shut down my email so the hacker canton access my important account’s.

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  marianna (@miranndahobbes) reported 49 minutes ago

  @unholyvenom i had to use my outlook email and it worked, probably some problem with gmail

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  Symoné B. Beez (@SymoneBeez) reported 53 minutes ago

  I don't even login to my Gmail account anymore. I use Grok @bot to read, reply, organize, and give me a daily overview for all 4 of my email addresses.

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  ........ (@votforimrankhan) reported 53 minutes ago

  I’m trying to complete the registration on your current website, but I’m not receiving the verification code on my Gmail. Could you please look into this issue and provide a solution as soon as possible? Thank you. @DarkForumss

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  Luck (@LuckLedger) reported 54 minutes ago

  @blessedby__ @GoogleWorkspace @Em0517561932234 imo this would make the implication even worse. Gmail forces ‘Gemini Flows’ and automation down my throat constantly, yet they don’t use their own tech? Seems dumb for one of the biggest AI companies in the world to have a standardized reply that’s completely irrelevant, instead of y’know, using their technology to automate a relevant reply.

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  Mayank Parmar (@mayank_jee) reported 54 minutes ago

  @mdreinders @bdsams It's pretty garbage for work account use cases as well, at least in my case. It nags you daily with summaries, which are basically just prompts that you could have used yourself from the left sidebar or ribbon menu. Copilot in Outlook is really horrible (overall). It can't find emails. It can't make basic changes to the emails I've written. It simply doesn't follow my instructions most of the time. "Can you just fix grammar" > proceeds to rewrite the entire email. Gemini in Gmail is also pretty trash. I do not understand how AI in email can be so bad, as it's a pretty good use case for AI, imho

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  The Valehart Project (@ValehartProject) reported 56 minutes ago

  @nicdunz It's cool. You can just utilise the bug in their billing to get access to other accounts that they won't fix despite it being on the dev forums. I used this on a Gmail account to "breach" my own business account for a proof of concept to get them to fix it. Didn't need to provide consent or anything. Just sitting there draining my own business account via a gmail.

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  Altr (@altrhorizon) reported 58 minutes ago

  @XFreeze the recovery piece stands out to me most. for longer tasks across multiple PDFs + MCPs like Gmail, Notion or Google Drive, losing progress to a token or network issue would be rough. that kind of resilience matters a lot more as agent workflows get longer!

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  Wogan (@WoganMay) reported 58 minutes ago

  I think this is a symptom of the "internet" shrinking down to a handful of websites (Facebook, Gmail, X) for most of the population. They're not aware that outside of these walled gardens, everything is pretty much constantly on fire, all the time.

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  Boomer (@accesscode305) reported 60 minutes ago

  Firstly financial institutions have to inform both regulators and customers about any maintenance. If they don't inform, they could have fines or get sued. 8 hour maintenance doesn't mean 8 hour downtime. All other tech services including AWS, Gmail, etc can have downtimes and not answerable to anyone. No AWS customer ever got any compensation when it went down. Next is most critical financial transactions work through the maintenance (most monetary txns). Even most web or mobile applications work too with concurrency and parallel leg deployment. Lastly, FI have a balance between cost and modernity. They don't need to have every shiny new toy in the market. 50 year old mainframes work perfectly well with just peripheral API stack instead of wholesale cloud migration.