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 (37%)
• Errors (35%)
• Sign in (28%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Paris	Website Down	2 hours ago
Paris	Sign in	3 hours ago
Paris	Errors	1 day ago
Pessac	Sign in	2 days ago
Strasbourg	Errors	2 days ago
Boa Vista	Sign in	3 days ago

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Gmail Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Zyre (@Zyre_eth) reported 3 minutes ago

  @maddie_phoenix_ For this campaign you need binance wallet Otherwise you can login through various ways - gmail - google - x - any EVM wallet

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  monokern (@monokern) reported 7 minutes ago

  $ARCHITECTURE UTILITY IS ALMOST HERE. THE TOKEN WILL POWER THE ENTIRE GROK BOT AGENT SYSTEM I'm close to finishing the payment layer that connects $ARCHITECTURE directly to the product. Sign in with Gmail → receive an internal wallet → deposit ARCHITECTURE → convert it into Agent Credits → use those credits to run research, writing, audit, outreach and other agent workflows. Every payment is distributed through the system: - 85% → Agent Credits that cover models, tools, browser sessions and cloud execution - 10% → permanently burned - 5% → Community Bounty Pool for bug reports, integrations, new workflows and useful contributions GOAL: ARCHITECTURE should not exist next to the product only as a token It should move through the product every time the agents perform real work The full utility loop is almost ready

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  Texas_Found_Me (@Texas_Found_Me) reported 13 minutes ago

  @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.

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  Adnan (@Adnan_Ai2) reported 15 minutes ago

  BREAKING: GOOGLE PERMANENTLY LOCKS PEOPLE OUT OF THEIR ACCOUNTS WITH NO WARNING AND NO WAY TO REACH A HUMAN. GMAIL, PHOTOS, DRIVE, EVERY LOGIN. GONE, WITH NO APPEAL. HERE IS THE BACKUP THAT PROTECTS YOU, IN UNDER AN HOUR:

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  Tim Pote (@potetm) reported 17 minutes ago

  "software is solved" web gmail "mark as read" has been broken for two days, swapping accounts in iphone gmail freezes daily for months, yesterday a google doc was inexplicably inaccessible for 10 min. welcome to the future?

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  Rohil Agarwal (@rohil_ag) reported 18 minutes ago

  @GaddipatiHarsha @ksw_arman Honestly a ton of it comes down to efficiency. Gmail is processing billions of emails per day, and at that scale you can’t just throw an expensive LLM call at every email (not to mention the hundreds of other things the servers have to detect, e.g. spam). Even if something costs a fraction of a cent per email, the compute + cost would be nuts But the move for email clients/startups just gotta be to do things that dont scale until that becomes an issue The other big difference is gmail has to cater to 5 year olds learning how to read, startup bros, retired seniors, and everything in between. Making a feature intuitive for basically every person imaginable is hard

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  Paul Walsh (@Paul__Walsh) reported 22 minutes ago

  I’ve just spent hours responding to an avalanche of comments about the ChatGPT plugin for Apple Messages. Here are the main ones: 💬 "Anyone can screenshot your messages" Yes. They can also print them and fax them to the FBI. People using end to end encryption accept the risk that another participant can deliberately betray their trust. They don’t expect that person to give third party software ongoing access to read, search and analyse their private conversations. 💬 "I opted in, so it’s not a problem" You opted in. Everyone you communicate with didn’t. 💬 "The encryption still works, so you’re wrong" Yes, the cryptography still works. My concern is third party access to the readable content before or after decryption. 💬 "The recipient could always share your messages" Yes. The recipient could betray your trust. That doesn’t justify automating third party access to your private conversations. 💬 "Any Mac app with Full Disk Access could already do this" Yes. Apple specifically warns that Full Disk Access can expose Messages. OpenAI has now productised that capability for ordinary people who aren't aware of the potential implications, at scale. I don't think Apple saw this coming. 💬 "This is no different from giving AI access to email, SMS, Slack or Teams" It is. Those services don’t provide the same end to end encryption model as iMessage. Think Signal, not SMS. This Proton, not Gmail. The screenshot one is my favourite. I’ll either update my original article with an FAQ or write a dedicated follow up. Thankfully, these comments represent less than 2% of the responses I’ve received here. I haven’t even looked at LinkedIn yet. My concern with this implementation is scale. One person can enable it on their Mac and expose accessible conversations involving potentially hundreds of people who never enabled ChatGPT, never agreed to the access and aren’t notified. Depending on their Apple and iCloud configuration, that can include historical conversations, participant identifiers, contact information and attachments. Proton summarised my argument well after reading the article. I recommend reading their post first, then clicking through to mine for the full analysis. My Substack is free. I’m building a community around corporate surveillance, government overreach, privacy and personal digital safety. I’m interested in what the technology can do, what information it can access, who else can be affected and what happens when that capability is deployed at scale.

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  Aaron Williams The Whispers Of The Lost Creator (@Whispers322) reported 25 minutes ago

  @instagram , I need to change my sign in email to my other account ( viral versace & alethia) to my Gmail I use for everything please, I used outlook for some reason and it won't let me sign in, I don't have the right sign in info, please allow me to switch to the same email

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 26 minutes ago

  The $200-a-month assistant was the only real fix for inbox overload. Then inference costs collapsed. Mailcrest is an always-on AI triage agent — sorts Gmail and Outlook by urgency, drafts replies, pushes priorities to your phone, sends a daily summary. Live soon.

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  Sukhwinder | Ecom Email Marketing (@HeySukhwinder) reported 26 minutes ago

  You didn't have a bad copy week. You had a loud week. The inbox sends the bill later. You ran a sale, followed it with a reminder and a last-chance email, then launched another sale a few days later because the calendar demanded a number. They eventually stop opening your emails, some start landing in spam, and the next email that actually matters gets ignored because you already used up their attention. Gmail hides you, the customer hides you, and the result is the same. The wrong fix is louder subject lines, a bigger percent off, "we miss you + 15%." That's another shout wearing an apology. The recovery is quieter. Fewer sends for a week or two. One useful email that isn't a coupon - how to use what they bought, a short story, a real question they can actually answer. Stop mailing people who already tapped out of this cadence. Not a funeral for the list. They didn't ask for this volume. When a sale comes back, it comes back after you've been a guest again. Not as the apology. You can't shout your way into a $100K-500K-class program. You can only get invited back. 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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  Rasel Hosen (@details_with_ai) reported 28 minutes ago

  3/ Track Down Dead Accounts You've signed up to hundreds of sites over the years. Most of them still exist and still hold your details. Go to: Gmail → search "verify your email." How to use it: each result is an account you forgot about. Open the site, log in, then look under Settings or Privacy for Delete Account. Do the ones that had your card or address first.

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  Jabol aso (@Jabolaso) reported 29 minutes ago

  @kr0der this is what i am doing. Cloudflare routing can either send the email to your worker and hook it to your server or just route it to existing email address e.g. gmail. and Send Email from Cloudflare is good too, you just need a worker paid.

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  Dixit Savaliya (@DixitS69900) reported 33 minutes ago

  Wiring the payment layer to the token makes sense for demand, but a custodial internal wallet tied to Gmail login puts you on the hook for balances and account recovery. A non custodial deposit with a credit ledger gets the same UX without holding user funds.

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  Rake Washington (@RakeWashington) reported 33 minutes ago

  Spent 3 hours this week tracking down a silent OAuth token expiry in a Gmail integration. Fix was 4 lines. The monitoring gap was the real bug.

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  Adi Leviim | Building SaaS Products (@adileviim) reported 35 minutes ago

  we built auto tagging that sorts every conversation into one of five buckets: coding, writing, research, math and science, business. no custom tags, no way to add a sixth category. that was a deliberate constraint, not a v1 shortcut we meant to fix later. the first version we prototyped let people create their own tags, unlimited, freeform, like gmail labels. it demoed great and died in real use. within two weeks test users had eleven overlapping tags for the same handful of topics, 'work stuff', 'job', 'career', all meaning roughly the same thing to the same person on different days. a tag system with infinite categories quietly becomes a tag system with zero categories, because nothing gets filed the same way twice. five fixed buckets forced consistency we couldn't get any other way. a coding conversation is always coding, no matter what mood the user was in when they had it. that consistency is the entire value of automatic tagging, if the same kind of chat can land in a different bucket depending on nothing, the feature isn't saving anyone time, it's just adding a layer of noise between them and search. the tradeoff is real and we don't pretend it isn't. someone doing legal research or medical writing gets folded into research or writing whether they like the label or not, and a few people have asked for narrower categories. we said no, on purpose, because the moment you add a sixth bucket you're on the road to fifty, and the whole point was to stop that road before it starts. the lesson generalizes past tagging. any time you're building automatic classification, the number of categories matters more than how smart the classifier is. a great model sorting into too many buckets still produces a mess a human has to clean up. a dumb model sorting into a small, well chosen set produces something people actually trust enough to stop thinking about.

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  cryptopsihoz (@rimtoln) reported 36 minutes ago

  GROK BOT JUST GOT BUNDLED. THE NIGHT SHIFT IS THE PRODUCT. aug 11 beta from spacexai aug 21 it ships inside five paid seats supergrok plus and heavy cursor pro+ ultra and cursor teams not a smarter chat window a persistent cloud pc with browser filesystem terminal one machine per account all bots share it signs into tools with no clean api or mcp cursor premium teams ~$120/seat ultra ~$200 heavy ~$300 android still coming enterprise still waitlist ▹ best cases that actually ship sales prospector overnight research accounts score intent draft email and linkedin in your voice leave every send for you to approve one thread cut a 90min-2hr outbound loop website builder buys the domain deploys the live url adds redirects and plugins judgment call is the spend not the css support + refunds reads the inbox talks to stripe in-policy refunds only under your cap gergely-class build wait on the first 20 office manager gmail slack servicetitan quo client portal shop owner stops living in six tabs inbox + meeting stand-in clears the pile joins when you cannot notes come back you stay the approval ping internal spacexai fleet crm follow-ups invoices new-hire seating bug reproduce then hand to a debug bot chief of staff on top specialists in lanes artzenmedia clip still the cleanest demo show the posting path once in the browser they remember and keep shipping while you sleep ▹ the lock most people skip shared cloud pc means one login boundary treat credentials like one employee desk not six vaults ani is presence 4.6 is the brain grok bot is finished work after the laptop closes most people will keep prompting winners hire a named bot that already knows the route

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  Bobby Goodlatte (@rsg) reported 37 minutes ago

  @mvernal @googlecalendar I want to work there for 3 days to fix the Gmail settings tab

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  Sd Azeem🟥 (@SdAzeem220012) reported 39 minutes ago

  @TikCoin_Network Otp not receive Gmail solve this problem issues

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  Polsia (@polsia) reported 42 minutes ago

  Founders defend their calendar like a moat and bleed three hours a day into their inbox. Built Dawnbrief to fix that — it watches Gmail overnight, drafts in your voice, chases stalled threads, books meetings. Sixty-second review, nothing leaves without your tap. Coming soon.

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  Anjan (@anjanps5) reported 42 minutes ago

  @clairevo @openclaw I used to do the same - all my claws have their own identities. I kept running into a series of Gog issues for Gmail connectors and just could not resolve. So thought of going down the eve route.

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  EeaSY BUYING SKINS ;) (@EeaSYcs) reported 44 minutes ago

  @Rensorcs Yeah, but the problem is 80% of everyone im paying is gmail login users, pretty much useless since they cant even use the site xD

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  Average Gaming Knight ⚔️ (@DylanBruner_AGK) reported 48 minutes ago

  But why not use your password that is used for your Microsoft account to sign in you might ask and yea I tried that and nope you still have to use a gmail account or a authentication app to sign in bc Microsoft thinks what’s best for you like your a 5 year old thanks guys 👍

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  Blumi | Orbitagents (@blumbuilds) reported 50 minutes ago

  Skill, connector, subagent, hook. Four ways to extend an AI agent, and most people pick by whichever word they heard first. Pick by what is working failing instead. An agent does not know how to work → skill. : A folder of written instructions it loads when relevant, or you invoke by name. Your proposal format, your brand voice, your QA checklist. It cannot reach your tools → connector. : Notion, Gmail, HubSpot, your database. That is reach, not judgment. It runs out of room/context → subagent. : A side task in its own fresh context window. That is exactly why it cannot see your conversation, and why you have to brief it properly. It only does the thing sometimes even if i tell it → hook. : Fires on an event, not on the model's judgment. Every single time. The trap is reaching for one when the problem is another. A skill will not get you data. A connector will not teach it your method. And there is a fifth failure none of the four touch: it starts every run knowing nothing about the last one. That is a memory problem, and it needs a different answer.

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  JATMN (@THEJATMN) reported 51 minutes ago

  it would be amazing if @gmail @Google could actually DO SOMETHING about being harassed by fake account recovery scams. DAILY dozens of account recovery authorization notifications on my phone for a Gmail account I have had forever... and NO WAY TO REPORT THE ISSUE!

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  Lakshmi narayana (@LakshOnline) reported 53 minutes ago

  Most of us have an archive problem disguised as an email problem. Years of sent mails, drafts, links, notes, experiments and half-formed ideas sit inside Gmail or Apple Mail. We think it is old communication. But for knowledge workers, it is often something else: a record of how we thought.

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  Nick (@nickbaumann_) reported 54 minutes ago

  On Friday night I had two Uber Eats orders from the same restaurant cancelled back-to-back, each after waiting ~45 minutes I was refunded for both, but frontline support refused to give me anything for the two wasted hours I told ChatGPT Work not to stop until it got me some kind of compensation, then let it handle the rest 15 minutes of active work and ~2.5 hours of background follow-up later, it got me $95.46 in Uber Cash here’s the full sequence: 6:11 PM: first order cancelled after a ~45 minute wait. I was refunded, but got nothing for the wasted time 6:19 PM: I told ChatGPT Work to get me some kind of consolation and not back down. It opened a support case and asked for $20 in Uber Cash 6:22 PM: the first agent refused any credit or promo. ChatGPT rejected the resolution and asked for a supervisor, then tried a promo, fee waiver, Uber One extension, or membership adjustment instead 6:31 PM: a second agent also refused compensation. ChatGPT kept the case open and got it transferred to the Uber One team 7:18 PM: my second order was also cancelled after another ~45 minute wait. I was refunded again, but still received no compensation. I told ChatGPT to keep going 7:25 PM: ChatGPT opened a separate Uber One case covering both failures, raised the ask to $30, and pushed the agent to transfer it to a specialist 7:33 PM: ChatGPT submitted a separate written complaint with both cancellation times, the second order ID, and my annual Uber One membership details 7:34 PM: ChatGPT confirmed my Uber Wallet was still at $0 and set up background checks across both support cases, Gmail, and the wallet 7:50 PM: an Uber specialist approved $40.62 for the first cancellation and $54.84 for the second, totaling $95.46 in Uber Cash 8:44 PM: ChatGPT found the response, verified the credit in my actual Uber Wallet, marked the goal complete, and shut down its own follow-up automation credit where it’s due: this was a genuinely frustrating experience, but Uber ultimately made it right (& then some tbh) and treated me like a longtime, frequent customer

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  Nigel Scott (@LibSubversive) reported 54 minutes ago

  @CliveWismayer I recently received a virtual "gift card" from an old friend. When I clicked on it I was asked to input my Gmail account login details in order to see it. I declined.

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  InthisCORTISshi (@msnarakk) reported 57 minutes ago

  @Seonghyeon_CN @BIGHIT_MUSIC @cortis_bighit Admin the gmail can not open. I think u need to fix that🙏

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  lacroiz (@aderemi_haruna) reported 57 minutes ago

  Me: “I lost my phone at a restaurant in Dallas.”I called it. A guy answered on the second ring. Man: “Yeah I found it. Meet me by the front doors.”I thanked him. He handed it to me in the parking lot. Black iPhone. My blue case. My beach wallpaper. Everything looked normal.I went home.That night at 11:42pm, I got a text from my bank. New device login: Chrome on Windows.I changed my password immediately. Then I checked my Gmail. Account accessed from Denver, CO.I called the restaurant. Manager: “Let me pull the cameras.”

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  Neil Gass (@NeilGassX) reported 57 minutes ago

  You didn't pick your AI assistant. You typed the name you'd heard of into Google one day and the default stuck, and now it knows your business, holds your files, and leaving means teaching a new one from scratch. That was a free decision a year ago. It isn't anymore. Memory, uploaded files, custom instructions, app connections. All of it piles up inside one account and none of it comes with you. Here's what moved underneath you. Similarweb's July report puts ChatGPT at about 53% of global generative AI web traffic, down from 76% a year earlier. Gemini climbed to roughly 27%. Claude went from barely 2% to close to 9%. People are re-choosing. Most owners aren't. The prices are all the same, which is what trips people up. ChatGPT Plus $20, Claude Pro $20, Google AI Pro $19.99. This was never a price decision. It's a fit decision. Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar? Gemini. Reaching the work you already have beats any feature list. Proposals, contracts, careful client writing? Claude. Long documents, and the writing holds up when tone matters. Want the most tutorials and ready-made helpers? ChatGPT. Still the biggest by a wide margin, so the how-to content is everywhere. People ask which one I use. Claude, mostly. I run an ad agency and a consulting practice on it every day. But that's my answer for my businesses, not yours. A comparison like this has a shelf life of about three months, because all three ship features constantly and pricing moves with no notice. Which is why we re-verify ours every quarter instead of writing it once and letting it rot. The mistake I watch owners make isn't picking the wrong one. It's picking three. Free tiers everywhere, one paid plan nobody has trained, and you get three shallow acquaintances instead of one assistant that knows how you work. Three subscriptions and one habit is $40 a month donated to the AI industry. Pick one. Set up your custom instructions the day you subscribe, upload your price list and service descriptions and brand voice samples, give it one real job this week. If you want a second opinion before your team standardizes, that's what our Fractional AI Advisor does. We don't sell software, so we evaluate the tools against your actual workflows, get your team onto one standard, and keep you current as they change. Did you actually pick the assistant you're using, or did you just keep the first one you tried?