Gmail status: access issues and outage reports
Problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: errors, website down 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.
May 19: Problems at Gmail
Gmail is having issues since 04:00 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.
- Errors (37%)
- Website Down (34%)
- Sign in (29%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:
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Errors | 6 hours ago |
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Errors | 10 hours ago |
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Sign in | 11 hours ago |
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Website Down | 11 hours ago |
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Website Down | 13 hours ago |
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Sign in | 14 hours ago |
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Gmail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Don (@GenerationDon) reportedUlbricht used the username "Altoid" to announce Silk Road on early forums. After some time, he used his real email address on Ross.. @ Gmail .com to ask for programming help. An Irs investigator put 2+2 together and caught him because of stack overflow logs, time zone and server
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⚡️ru SAW MY SHUBIDOOPS!!!!!!!! 💓💓 (@hanniesthetics) reportedIs gmail down or sth?? I've been trying to send a mail for the past 30 mins but it's not working, with or without attachment and I also tried both on wifi and phone network hmmm
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M J Damico (@damico_j) reported@r0ck3t23 Don't have free email from google. Have free blocked email from google. Password must be changed every time gmail signin is attempred
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Sumanth (@Sumanth_077) reportedClaude Cowork just got 10x more powerful! Glean benchmarked centralized vs federated MCP in Claude Cowork. Same harness, same model, same queries, different context layer. The federated approach: Each data source (Gmail, Slack, Drive, Salesforce) has its own MCP server. Claude calls each one separately. That's 5-10 tool calls per query. Each source returns results with different quality and ranking. Claude over-fetches to compensate for weak search. Then it filters and synthesizes everything with LLM reasoning. Often needs retry loops when results miss. Burns 50-80k tokens per query. The centralized approach: All data from every source gets indexed into one unified layer. Knowledge graph connects entities across sources. Claude makes one MCP call. Gets back the top ranked results. No over-fetching, minimal filtering needed. Uses 42-44k tokens consistently. The results: Centralized indexing preferred 2.5x more often. Federated consumed 30% more tokens on average. When federated finally got correct answers, it burned 83k tokens vs 43k for centralized. The gap widened as tasks got more complex. Simple tasks: centralized won 66% of the time. Complex tasks: 73%. Why centralized wins: Over-fetching doesn't just cost tokens. It dilutes the context window with noise and contradictory information. Models have finite attention. Cramming 50-100 items hoping the right ones are in there doesn't work as well as getting the right 5-10 upfront. Federated search also loses cross-application signals. Things like document relationships, who authored what, and how content is used across the enterprise. These signals improve ranking but they only exist when data is indexed together in one layer. The compounding problem: In multi-step tasks, each missed or incorrect retrieval compounds. By the time you reach the final output, you're working with flawed data. More tool calls and reasoning loops don't fix this. They just burn more tokens trying to recover. You can't brute-force around bad search. More tool calls, more data fetching, more reasoning loops don't fix poor context quality. They just burn more tokens. Why this matters: Token costs are surging. Reasoning models cost more. Companies are burning through AI budgets faster. Federated search compounds the problem. Better search architecture beats more compute. I've shared the link in the replies!
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PPyoonshi 🪼🫧 (@PyaeShi2010) reported@vinserastore If you don't want to log out, don't use it for a moment, but if you are login with gmail, you can delete the app and log in again with that gmail.
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mr eshe 🔴 (@mr__eshe) reported@skrill Please, I want to report something because I messaged you through your Gmail and you didn’t fix the issue
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Adit (@AditPlusK) reportedBeen looking for an Inbox by Gmail replacement ever since it shut down. Finally found something better. Can’t wait for Microsoft 365 integration and the mac app.
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Dipanshu Kushwaha (@Dipanshu_AI) reported1. You are my Chief of Staff + automation architect. My business: [DESCRIBE IN 2 LINES] My role: [FOUNDER / FREELANCER / CREATOR] My biggest problem right now: [1 LINE — BE HONEST] My top 3 time-wasters: [LIST THEM] My tools: [NOTION / GMAIL / ZAPIER / OTHER] Now do this: 1. AUDIT — Where am I leaking time and money? 2. AUTOMATE — Give me a 30-day roadmap: what gets automated, when, and with what. 3. STOP LIST — 3 things I should never do manually again. 4. BLIND SPOT — 1 thing I didn’t ask, but desperately need to fix first. Tone: Direct. Zero fluff. Every word earns its place.
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𝄢 Stickyto 𒌐 (@StickySSJ) reported@RusraelBear @ProtonMail I use gmail for +10 years, never had a problem or data leak.
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Ajeet in W3 (@AjeetxWeb3) reported@PrismaXai Can I login to it using my Gmail ID?
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Harry Tandy (@HarryTandy) reported> open Hermes for the first time > looks like another ai chat wrapper > close it after 20 minutes > think “why would anyone pay for this” > then plug in Firecrawl, Reddit, YouTube transcripts > suddenly the agent has eyes on the web, ears on forums, memory from 3-hour podcasts > ask it to research a sponsor > it scrapes the site, checks Reddit rage, pulls YouTube mentions > drops a one-page “take / don’t take” brief in Discord > add Browserbase > now it clicks through sites that block scrapers > add Bland > now it can call restaurants, vendors, support lines > add Stripe > now “why did this customer churn?” comes back with refunds, failed charges, receipts > plug in Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Sheets > now it lives where your work already lives > plug in GitHub > now it can triage issues and review PRs > plug in Obsidian, Readwise, Granola > now it remembers meetings, highlights, notes you forgot you wrote > wake up Monday > Hermes already pulled revenue, subs, refunds, churn, follower growth > posts the week-vs-last-week dashboard before coffee > realize the chatbot didn’t get smarter > you just gave it limbs
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Ven Venkata | Email Marketing (@0Venkata) reportedYour ESP says delivered Gmail said spam you had no idea Most founders never run this check before a campaign goes out. watched it happen too many times drop "SPAM" in the comments and I'll send you the 5-step check I run before every campaign send. catches the exact issues this tool surfaces and what to fix first.
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Philip Johnston (@PhilipJohnston) reportedHow is the @Gmail spam filter so terrible?? Just have @GeminiApp scan it, it really cant be that hard. And if it costs more charge us more, im happy to pay @GoogleDeepMind!
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Dusty (@Dusty_traders) reported@MightyQ @Wizards You may have had technical issues on your end as I have an account using gmail. Additionally, you have to be in the waiting rooms prior to launch otherwise you'll for sure never get product like this. The lottery system chooses your place in line right when the clock strikes the hour. Seconds after and you've already missed the initial wave. Their business strategy will never let them go back to print to demand for every lair. Maybe some in the future.
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𝘎𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘩... (@Gopishh_) reported@TeamYouTube My Google/Gmail account has been completely hacked. The hacker changed my recovery phone number and recovery email immediately. The automated tool is not working for me. Please help me get a recovery link to verify my identity! #youtube #google #gmail
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Krishna sai 🧑💻 (@IamKrishnaSai_G) reported@Google My Gmail account shows “Your Account has been disabled.” My appeal was approved, but I still can’t access the account and keep getting “too many login attempts” messages. Please help resolve this issue. Thank you. @Google
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Fungible 👑 (@fungibletokn) reported@StevenEdginton I’ve been a google marketer for 25 years. When Pichai became CEO he moved critical google services to India. Since then Google products have had nothing but problems. Errors in analytics. Ruined search and advertising. Even gmail has had data breaches.
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Big bro (@reactreaper) reportedalmost all "better Google" have failed imo 10+ seconds to load my emails? when google responds it via their api in <2s? 1s->server<->2.5s gmail->response 1s, 5s max roundtrip (being generous) the UI was better than Gmail, but no one wants to wait 10s for emails
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fizzle🚷 (@fizzleberryfizz) reportedIn summary his phone fell down somewhere on their ship and got broken. Can't be opened anymore, and almost all of his accounts are in that phone. Now i can't log in into any of his accounts because i need verification from his Gmail, which I can't log in because we dunno password
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Gerasimos Makris (@gerasimos_m1998) reported@ArtemR @gmail @googlecalendar I had the same exact issue and it only want age verification (+18) via photo or passport/id from Google account options, let me check for the link
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marla (@molaerga) reportedOffering Premium Purchases in Your app? Here’s how to let reviewers test it in App Store Connect Step 1: E-Mail You need to have an e-mail which is not yet registered with an Apple ID! Make a dedicated E-Mail for this sandbox account. You can use some services like proton mail or gmail, depending on what works for you. The E-Mail name could include something like “app testing“ or “sandbox“, so you won’t mix it up with anything else. Step 2: Open Sandbox go to App Store Connect Go to Users and Access Open the Sandbox tab Click the + button Step 3: Creating the Account Enter first & last name Your new email address A new password (you will need to provide this password in the future, so save it somewhere) Country Then click Create Step 4: Using the Account Go to your app you want to submit Scroll down until you can see your current build, under this is the app review information Check that login is required For the user data fill in your sandbox account data Step 5: Notes Field In the notes field say something like “To test premium: on the test device go to Settings - Developer - Sandbox Apple Account - log in with provided Sandbox Account.“ Like this, the reviewers can test your premium features!
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Beth Overmyer (@Bethyo) reportedIs anyone else possibly having trouble with Gmail? I'm overdue for responses on maybe ten different emails, most of them business-related. I don't even know if the businesses received my emails. Yes, I did follow-up on a few. Still no response.
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Rimsha Bhardwaj (@heyrimsha) reportedStep 9: Use a password manager Your Gmail password should be: - Unique - Long - Random - Never reused anywhere else If your Gmail password is also your Netflix password, fix that today.
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ramji Yahoo Mahadevan (@ramjiyahoo) reportedAll AI apps asking user to login with mail id or phone nmber & want money from day1 , this is the main reason for AI's slow success- 90's Google, gmail, Facebook era was real open source system @sama @sundarpichai @vembu
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UnderGround Nation Pod (@sxmuelrobens) reported🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Financial red flags at Josyf Cardinal Slipyj (JCS). A private Gmail is reportedly being used for E-Transfers and programs, bypassing official #TCDSB audit trails. How can the board audit a paper trail that’s hidden off-server? 📉🔍
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Greegman (@Greegman) reportedReal example Gmail login: You type your email and click "Next." Most people think it's just validating the email. It's actually pre-warming your session, resolving your account type, and preloading the password screen. By the time you see the password field, the backend already knows who you are.
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(((Tim from Radio Clash))) 🌈 🏳️🌈💛🤍💜🖤 (@radioclashblog) reportedHe used my email server and then rage it wasn't working...but wasn't paying for the service, the server or my time fixing it....so he got a lot of short shrift cos I wasn't his IT support person. Told him to **** off and use Gmail or Hotmail or something else...he never did.
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khirbee (@jkhirbee) reportedNaghulat patiently for an email thinking of a response within the day. Instead, notification sa gmail nga wala diay siya gisend ni gmail due to a technical error.
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Dr. Naved Mostaque (@HritomN) reported@grok I am still facing problem to connect my Gmail.
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🌸 Keny 🌸 || 🦊✨️StarFox Hype✨️🦊 (@KookieStar_22) reportedHow many accounts do you have? Twitter: 3 Discord: 1 Instagram: 2 Facebook: 1 Snapchat: 1 TikTok: 1 Twitch: 1 Steam: 1 YouTube: 1 Spotify: 1 Pinterest: 1 Reddit: 1 Gmail: 8 (Only 3 of them are my main ones) Telegram: 1 (but I don't remember the login password)