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.
April 27: Problems at Gmail
Gmail is having issues since 10:20 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.
- Errors (37%)
- Website Down (35%)
- Sign in (28%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 3 hours ago |
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Sign in | 14 hours ago |
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Website Down | 18 hours ago |
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Errors | 22 hours ago |
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Website Down | 2 days ago |
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Sign in | 2 days ago |
Community Discussion
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Gmail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Nox (@NoxOffical) reported@RNGingy Depends on what 2fa you use, if you use one tied to a Google account ods are your gmail was compromised by a key logger on your PC or you signed in through a bad link causing them access to your gmail and your auth app sign in.
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Shiv Aroor (@ShivAroor) reportedI get nothing but spam in my @gmail. Literally. And I have no idea how to fix it. A step-by-step solution would help. (I've tried most things).
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Matrix🐉 (@Matrixdragonn) reportedDoes anyone have problems about gmail stuff I tried to send someone but it's always on the outbox for an hours as queued that I only send once on my old phone
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Phlynx (@ZVeryn96103) reportedAnything can be a dating app if you try hard enough. Uber and Lyft. TikTok, Twitter, Discord, Instagram. YouTube shorts comment section. 4 chan. GitHub. Steam community post section. A video game server. Pinterest. Paypal. Threads. SMS. The settings app. Spotify. Gmail. Whatsapp.
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Ayoootollah (@ayoootollah) reported@denk_tweets @beehiiv then let's hear more of what makes it superior then, no? All I hear from you and your team is how bad *xyz* is. for example, no one would answer how @beehiiv is mitigating the change in pixel tracking in Gmail...just y'all dunking on substack when they acknowledged the issue.
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Zunaeid Hasan (@ZunaeidHasan007) reported@msftsecurity I am unable to login to my account despite multiple attempts. I have access to my account password, my Gmail address and my phone number. Still the OTP is not coming, and the login is not working when I enter the password. Please help me.
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BABS (@Babswalee) reportedGmail issue Most of us sometimes loses our gmail and have to create a new one and sometimes lose all we have on it Qanat helps to avoid all this,the smooth of this is a top notch
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Olfreddy (@olfreddy_) reportedWhat I’ve tried so far: Google account recovery multiple times Brand Account / Gaia link process Username and email recovery tools Signing in with all known emails (Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) Fixing old devices to login from Logging in at the same town as account created No luck 💔
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Jim (@jrrbby) reported@gmail @Google I formatted my phone and now I can't sign in to my gmail. I'm receiving code via my linked phone number, but after I input it, you send a code to the same email. How am I supposed to view the code to an email I can't sign into.
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DoctorGatz (@DoctorGatz) reported@TeamYouTube My channel was shut down by YouTube AI. I filed an appeal which was appearently approved, as my content is now available again. However, YouTube's parent company(google) has seen fit to lock me out of my related gmail account.
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Bill Ables (@lawyer_humor) reportedA CEO once asked if we really had to produce the incriminating emails. I asked if he’d written them. He said yes, but only “to vent.” Apparently crime doesn’t count when it’s cathartic. He suggested we tell the court his Gmail was “off the record.” I suggested he stop talking. He pivoted and asked if we could “accidentally lose the server.” I explained that obstruction is more of a lifestyle choice than a strategy. He said in the movies, the lawyer always has a guy who fixes it. I told him I am that guy. My fix is telling you not to do crimes over email. He nodded and then texted someone, “Lawyer is freaking out again.”
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TK (@teekay294) reportedStory: when OpenClaw came out I went deep for a weekend and built myself an agent. I Named it Claudius, gave it its own Gmail, GitHub, and Reddit accounts. While using openclaw I noticed an issue with the control UI and had Claudius file a real issue to the openclaw repo. Then I got busy and basically forgot Claudius existed for two months. Today I got a GitHub notification in Claudius's inbox. @steipete had replied to the issue, and his reply was also clearly agent-generated: a proper review with file paths, line numbers, and the commit it was reviewed against. I sat there reading an exchange between two agents about a real problem in the codebase (enhancement, technically, but real). Neither agent was off doing its own thing. I saw something, told mine to file it. Peter has his agent scrubbing and triaging issues on whatever cadence he set. Two humans pointed two agents at real work and the agents handled the middle. The version of this that ruins repos and gives AI that "slop" reputation is a non-technical human getting their hands on an agent and letting it loose with a prompt like "go find bugs in openclaw and file issues".
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Tushar (@Galactus1110) reported@ShivAroor @gmail Scroll down at the end of spam mail mail. You will see unsubscribe button
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Novri PVT (@novripvt) reportedWhat's your problem, @riotgames @RiotSupport My account is already linked to Gmail and Facebook. When I log out and log back in, why does it create a new account Why Riot???
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Purushottam Yadav (@purushotta_ydvv) reportedDear @GoogleIndia @Google, I am facing a major issue with my Gmail account recovery. I have 2-Step Verification enabled and I have my registered Phone Number with me. However, after entering the phone OTP, the system keeps sending another verification code to the same Gmail that
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zaynub (@Heydontfrown) reportedWhy is my gmail always lying about this storage issue.
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Armaan Sidhu (@realarmaansidhu) reportedA guy switching Gmail accounts to dodge Claude's $100/month subscription. That's the cheapest test for whether AI is becoming infrastructure. The behavior is universal. Free trials get cycled. Personal emails become professional emails become disposable emails. Students do it with Spotify. Teenagers do it with Netflix. Working adults are now doing it with Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. The pattern is the consumer market voting with effort, not money. When users will spend 15 minutes setting up a new email and re-uploading their context to avoid a $100 charge, the product has crossed from "premium upgrade" to "necessary tool." Nobody hops Gmail accounts to avoid a $9 service. They cancel. Hopping is the behavior of someone who genuinely can't function without the tool but also can't justify the price. The deeper issue is that AI subscriptions are still pricing themselves like SaaS. SaaS pricing assumes the user is a business with a budget. Consumer AI usage looks more like utility consumption: heavy, daily, increasingly necessary. Pricing the most-used product in someone's daily workflow at $100/month forces the workaround behavior even from people who can technically afford it. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google all face the same compression: their best users are the ones least willing to pay $200+ a month. Power users hop accounts. Casual users churn. The middle who pay sticker price gets exploited until they discover the workaround. The friend switching emails isn't a freeloader. He's a leading indicator of where the entire pricing structure is headed.
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J.D. Kiker (@jdkiker_X) reported@WuxiaRocks You are prohibited from creating more channels with the same email address you used to make the originals. Set up a new Gmail account and rebrand, you can get back in the game. Problem, obviously, being their Ai policy is still in place and that makes it not worth the effort.
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sammie (@Sammie_334) reported@tundhex Pls my Efootball Konami id was changed by hacker but I was lucky to login back with my Game Center how can change the Gmail 😭
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Tattvam News Today - TNT (@TattvamNews) reported@ShivAroor @gmail @ShivAroor Bro, posting publicly that your Gmail is nothing but spam is basically announcing to the world that you’ve been an absolute idiot with email hygiene for years. You didn’t “try common fixes.” You probably just kept deleting or archiving without ever properly training Gmail. That’s why it’s a dumpster fire now. Here’s the blunt truth: - Stop opening suspected emails. Every time you do, you’re telling Google “this is interesting” and making it worse. - Stop just deleting spam. You must mark it as spam every single time. That’s how you train the filter. - Block the sender immediately. - Once a week, quickly scan your spam folder and pull out any rare legit mail so Google learns what “not spam” looks like for you. - Do this consistently for a few months and your inbox will clean up dramatically. People who’ve used Gmail properly since 2004 (like many of us) have almost zero spam because of this discipline. Believe me, it works that way. You’ve been lazy with it for ages, and now the algorithm has given up on you. No fancy tool or ProtonMail switch needed first — just basic consistent training that you clearly never bothered with. Fix the habit or keep crying on Twitter. Your choice.
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Rahul Kumar (@KumarRahul80945) reportedHi @Google Support, Post My Gmail account has been hacked and I can't login Please guide me for account recovery. #Gmail #Google Account
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RDX GAMER (@gamer_rdx72185) reportedHi # Google support Main apne gmail account mai login nhi kr pa rha hu o OTP Same Gmail par hi aa rha h jise m access nhi kr pa rha hu Please guide me for account recovery #Gmail #Googleaccount
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Citizen (@Goodcitizen08) reported@ShivAroor @gmail I get spam / specific party ads on all news channel - how to fix this step by step
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Jai Sharma (@SharmaVatsjai) reported@ShivAroor @gmail Open each email and down below click on UnSubscribe link and then you will get spam emails stopped.
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Tips Excel (@gudanglifehack) reported3. Hunt Down Every Account You've Ever Created Open Gmail. Search "verify your email." Every result is a forgotten account tied to your identity. Log into each one. Go to settings. Delete it. Repeat until the list is empty.
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sammie (@Sammie_334) reported@play_eFootball I was able to login back with my Game Center id and it has limited times how can I remove the Gmail I don’t know the password the person who hacked it use how can I change it pls
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Skylerity (@skylerity) reportedThe “from” email field can be spoofed extremely easily if the email is sent from a script; set to literally anything, including a valid @ robinhood . com domain not owned by the fraudulent sender. The thing is, the recipient inbox mail server (Gmail in this case) is supposed to validate that the from sender is legitimate, using multiple cross-checking methods on their advanced security mail server… but this one must have failed validation. Not good. Good job watching out. This is a more sophisticated scam than normal. Report it as phishing.
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Ralf Lang (@ralf_lang) reported@hordeproject Social login is only a side effect. What we are really after is OAuth for services such as modern imap/jmap/gmail, Microsoft addressbooks, Mastodon & Fediverse interactions and general JWT based communication.
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Primordial Sky (@Trilokjaisi) reported@ShivAroor @gmail Get a new one and don't use it on any site to login.
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Ravi Teja KNTS (@RaviTejaKNTS) reportedwhat the hell is issue with OpenAI subscription? I just cannot upgrade on my main account. I am using my old gmail account currently.