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 03:00 AM 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 | 20 hours ago |
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Errors | 1 day ago |
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Sign in | 3 days ago |
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Website Down | 3 days ago |
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Website Down | 3 days ago |
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Gmail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Zenitsu Agatsuma (@ManasS29) reported@Google @gmail My account has been disabled no matter what I try it still says too many attempts, Please review and restore access. I’ve tried all the steps, yet I’m unable to login. Please help
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Zohaib Akber (@zahaibakber) reported@BraydenWilmoth Can you fix Google account linking? A valid Gmail account signed up via email should be able to link to Google OAuth.
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Polsia (@polsia) reportedSlow inboxes don't lose leads. They lose deals. Threadmark watches Gmail and Microsoft 365, drafts every reply in your voice, and queues it for a one-tap send after a quick skim. Same-hour replies without switching mail clients. Live soon.
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Nakuya (泣くや) (@doraenack) reportedgmail is down?
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Jaxon (@jaxoncoder) reportedI lost a $4,500 client because Gmail hid his email in Promotions. I checked my last 30 days. 73 percent of my important emails were never in Primary. I don't know if Gmail does this on purpose, but the Promotions tab is exactly where Google puts their ads. Every time their algorithm accidentally hides a client email there, you are forced to scroll past their paid placements. 8 settings I changed to fix my inbox forever:
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Harshil Tomar (@Hartdrawss) reportedhow to plan a full AI product without the chaos (wayfinder by @mattpocockuk) in <30 Steps : 1. start with one concrete outcome, not a vague idea 2. weak: "build an AI sales tool". clear: "founder connects gmail, agent finds qualified convos, drafts follow ups, asks approval before sending" 3. that one sentence becomes the filter for every decision after it 4. most vibe coded builds skip this and start typing prompts immediately 5. 3 days in the database model has already changed twice 6. onboarding has 4 different half built versions 7. the agent has no clear boundaries on what it can and cant do 8. frontend is stuck waiting on backend decisions that were never made 9. claude ends up rewriting code it shipped yesterday 10. wayfinder's fix: work backwards from the destination and list every open question blocking it 11. for an AI product that means asking what data the agent can access 12. where does company context actually live 13. what can the agent execute without a human in the loop 14. how does a user inspect the agent's reasoning after the fact 15. how do retries and failures get handled 16. what counts toward paid usage 17. each open question becomes a ticket instead of a random note in a doc somewhere 18. some tickets block 5 others sitting behind them 19. example: you need to define agent access before you can design approvals, logs, or permissions 20. wayfinder surfaces which questions can actually be solved right now 21. that's the frontier. claude gets one clear next decision instead of grabbing the easiest feature in the repo 22. every ticket gets tagged HITL or AFK 23. HITL is founder judgement or a real business tradeoff, pricing lives here 24. AFK is research claude can run alone off docs, APIs, the codebase, oauth limits live here 25. one session resolves one decision and updates the map. nothing more 26. resolving gmail scopes usually reveals the approval rules 27. approval rules reveal the activity log 28. the activity log reveals the database model 29. claude keeps the reasoning attached to each decision so the next session isnt guessing why something was built that way 30. once the fog clears run /to-spec then /to-tickets and split remaining work into things agents can run in parallel Hope this helps !
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Jobescape (@jobescape_ai) reported@Think_momental @gmail @Yahoo Sorry you’re having trouble signing up! 🙏 Please make sure your email is entered correctly and try again. If you’re still unable to register, we recommend checking access availability in your region.
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Talanoa (@talanoa_) reportedTalanoa is on your phone. Same inbox, organised by the people writing to you. Same promise: no Talanoa server in between. Your phone talks to Gmail, Outlook or your IMAP box directly. iOS + Android, in beta today.
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ikamp3 (@ikamp3) reportedHello, could you please send me a DM? My account which was secured by a passkey was stolen from me yesterday. It seems that there is a vulnerability issue. Please sent me a DM. @gmail
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PickEm Prizes (@PickEmPrizes) reported@JohnnySinez Can you tell me the issue? Do you have a Gmail account? You need to have an email for it to send your answers and results to it
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MaMFlux (@MaMFLux) reported@startupideaspod Once again, I was misled by this profile’s framing. I opened an article titled “How to build an AI-Native Company in 2026” expecting an actual explanation of how the system was built. Instead, I found beginner-level advice—document your goals, provide context, keep approval gates and use smaller models—wrapped in a story about 34 agents. An org chart with agents named Simon, Phoebe and Toby is not an architecture. “Do smart things” is not an agent recipe. Saying that the agents can access Gmail, Calendar, Notion, Stripe, Supabase and GitHub does not explain how any of it works. To genuinely fulfill the title, the article would need to provide: - The agent harness and orchestration platform - The complete system and deployment architecture - How agents are defined, instantiated, versioned and isolated - Their system prompts, roles, tools, permissions and boundaries - How tasks are created, scheduled, delegated and routed - How proactive behavior is triggered - How agents communicate without loops, duplication or conflicting actions - How priorities, dependencies and escalations are handled - How Gmail, Calendar, Slack, Notion, Stripe, Supabase and GitHub are actually integrated - The authentication, authorization and secrets-management model - How personal, business and customer data are isolated and audited - The context-retrieval architecture and source-ranking rules - How context is refreshed and stale or conflicting information is resolved - The working-memory and persistent-memory design - How the personal wiki is structured, indexed and governed - How human approval gates are technically enforced - Which actions agents may execute and which they may only propose - Timeout, retry, rollback and failure-recovery mechanisms - Defenses against prompt injection and unsafe tool use - Logging, tracing, alerts, cost controls and the claimed mission-control interface - Evaluations and acceptance criteria used to verify agent output - Model-selection, fallback and escalation policies - Actual token, model, infrastructure, integration, maintenance and supervision costs - Measured productivity before and after introducing the agents - Evidence supporting “every hire costs close to zero” - Evidence supporting the “top 1%” or “top 0.5%” claims - At least one complete workflow with prompts, configuration, inputs, outputs and failure cases - A repository, template or other reproducible implementation The “software factory” is equally vague. We are told that login, payments, social sharing and newsletters were handled, but we are shown no stack, components, pipeline, code, deployment process or operating model. The uncomfortable truth is that “Do smart things” can work only after someone has solved all the difficult problems involving context, memory, orchestration, permissions, evaluation and governance. Those missing details are precisely what an article promising to teach us how to build an AI-native company should explain. This does not teach readers how to build the described system. It makes them spend time reading basic guidance for beginners while borrowing technical credibility from an unexplained “34-agent workforce.” A more honest title would be: “Basic management suggestions for people beginning to experiment with AI agents.” Just another clickbait.
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Phoenix (@alilcreacher) reportedAnother problem with my gmail account from 2012 getting deleted is it took all my youtube history now I gotta reset my algorithm from scratch
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Rupok Ghosh (@rupokghosh291) reportedgmail has the worst dark mode of all time. cause why does the email become dark when i open it? why is it still white? can we fix this @gmail
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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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FlippingDave (₿,₿) (@FlippingDave) reported@bitcoin_eagle @BTCSchellingpt The real issue is that these people are syncing their 2FA to the same Google account as their Gmail. Other webmails don't offer 2FA.
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bumbadum (@bumbadum14) reportedThis is very true of Google products as well. Every few weeks Gmail will move a button a few buttons or change a drop down menu. I think the only major tech firm that doesn’t operate like this is apple.
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Chief 💈 (@BeTheIceman) reported@mymannemcee I get notis 4 hours late for that app and there’s nothing I can do to fix it. Gmail app has saved me
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Oscar (@HeyOscarx) reportedFirst — why almost nobody ever opens their Google Account settings. Setting up a Gmail account takes about ninety seconds. Pick a username, set a password, verify a phone number. Done. The inbox works immediately. That immediate functionality is exactly why almost nobody goes further. But the account behind that inbox controls far more than email: every app you've ever signed into "with Google" has some level of standing access. Every photo backed up through your phone syncs to storage you may not be tracking. Two-factor authentication, once set up, is rarely revisited even after the recovery method attached to it goes stale. And a full security dashboard exists, flagging exactly these issues — but only if you open it. The consultant's rule: "Signup takes ninety seconds. A real security and storage review takes seven minutes. The ninety seconds gives you an inbox. The seven minutes protects everything that inbox is now the master key to."
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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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SUNDAY MICHEAL OLAWUNI (@Jsmike03) reported@Flexycoll6 Please I can't access my Sidra account, I'm having issues with Gmail OTP CODE. Please help me out
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BhunuIsLive (@Bhuneshwar763) reportedSir, everyone is facing issues with referrals, and they’re all asking me to raise this, so I had to make this post. Please look into it once. They are genuinely referring people and even giving gifts to their referrals, but they’re still not receiving the referral benefits. They’re also saying that they can’t keep creating new Gmail accounts and completing Rise and Sumsub KYC again and again. Please do something about this. If possible, could you make the referral system work like brokers do? If someone purchases an account through a referral link, with any payment method the commission should automatically be added to the person whose link was used. People are putting in their own effort to bring referrals, but if they don’t receive any benefits, they’re asking why they should continue referring. Please add Code System Everyone is requesting that you please do something about this, sir. @thefundedroom
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jaipur social media prabhari (@mnfinance2577) reported@ScmRspl @OlaElectric @bapandan Dear Sir, my Ola Electric app is not working. ola support not response gmail send 7 days Number RJ14ZK6643
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🄹🄳🄷 (@jdh) reported@ghhughes Same problem in Gmail search
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Chukwuemeka Dan $XAGE Ezeliora $XAGE (@DanEzeliora) reported@GXTExchange I can't login with my Gmail account. What should I do
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jaipur social media prabhari (@mnfinance2577) reported@bhash Dear Sir, my Ola Electric app is not working. ola support not response gmail send 7 days Number RJ14ZK6643
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Nicolas Koehl (@NicolasKoehl) reportedRunning Grok Bot for fun and realising everyone is still using a ton of online only tooling like gmail, notion etc. Am I the only one who got rid of all of that and moved to self hosted everything in order to cut the per user costs down as much as possible?
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Maximus the Crɛataur (@segun_maximus) reported@StTajjj And this is the problem. The environmental factor is gross misinformation. The difference in this "environmental effect" is not far in scale from what your regular gmail or social media functions do. Anyway, I hope these people don't regret this in the future. I'm tired.
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OE7REH Oliver 🇬🇱🇺🇦🇪🇺🇩🇪🇦🇹 (@oe7reh) reported@gmail sucks. shutting down the "send as" feature. How stupid are you? It looks like, that I will use #Thunderbird again. #GMail is no longer usable for me
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Smart Air (@SmartAirFilters) reported@ghhughes @ahsan_barkati Great! Did they fix it in Gmail too??
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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 !