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.

• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (35%)
• Sign in (28%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Hennebont	Website Down	7 hours ago
Arrondissement de Charleroi	Errors	21 hours ago
Paris	Sign in	1 day ago
Châlette-sur-Loing	Sign in	1 day ago
Lyon	Sign in	3 days ago
Néhou	Errors	4 days ago

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Gmail Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Mari Tec AI (@ICare_MHB) reported 3 minutes ago

  12/ Monitor your storage usage Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos share the same storage pool. Running out of space can disrupt backups, email delivery, and file syncing. Check it before it becomes a problem.

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  Verizon Support (@VerizonSupport) reported 4 minutes ago

  @cdxvill I am so sorry you have had such a frustrating experience, but please be very careful! That Gmail address is NOT an official Verizon support channel and is likely a scam. We want to make sure your account information stays completely secure, so please do not send any personal details to that email. We are right here and ready to help. Shoot us a DM so we can look into your actual service issues safely and securely.

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  Ike Hirsch (@ikenoelhirsch) reported 4 minutes ago

  Most cold emails fail because people let AI write them. Here's why that's backwards. ChatGPT, Claude, and every other model trained on internet data. They scraped Google's top 100 results for "cold email copywriting." Those results weren't written by people who close deals. They were written by SEO copywriters who know how to rank, not convert. So when you ask AI to write your cold email, you're asking a model trained on bad data to do your job. AI is a researcher, not a writer. Use it to pull context. Use it to normalize data. Don't use it to write your pitch. Here's the framework that actually converts: Your prospect reads your email and asks three questions in this order. 1. Is this person going to screw me? Trust signals happen outside the email. Your domain matters. Gmail addresses don't convert. Yahoo addresses definitely don't convert. Your website needs to look like it was built this decade. Your LinkedIn profile needs to exist. If those aren't in place, your copy can't save you. 2. Is this offer for me or for everyone? Segment your lists. If you offer Google Ads to plumbers and cold email to SaaS companies, those are two campaigns with two different scripts. Specificity converts. "I help everyone" converts nobody. Personalization goes here. Name their exact pain. Reference their product by model number if you can. Make it impossible for them to think this email went to 10,000 other people. 3. Do I believe this can help me make money? Your offer matters more than your copy. A great offer with average copy will outperform average offer with great copy every time. If your pitch is "pay me $10,000 upfront and maybe you'll see results in 3 months," no amount of personalization will fix that. Reframe it. Remove risk. Make the first step smaller. Then write the email long enough to answer every objection before they ask it. Short emails get more replies. Long emails get better replies. The goal isn't response rate. The goal is "how do I get started?" replies, not "send me your pricing" replies. Every email between the cold pitch and the booked call is another chance for them to go cold. Answer their objections up front so the only logical next step is a meeting. AI fits in at the research layer. Use it to scrape their website and write one hyper-specific sentence about what they do. Use it to pull product names or case studies. Use it to normalize messy data into clean fields you can inject into your email. But the structure, the offer, the psychology, that's on you. Cold email converts when you stop asking AI to do your thinking and start using it to handle the tedious **** that makes personalization scalable. What's the weakest part of your cold email right now?

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  dennis (@dennismacelroy) reported 7 minutes ago

  CRITICAL SECURITY ALERT: YOU attempted to SIGN IN to your GMAIL ACCOUNT on your OWN COMPUTER

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  🪭namnom⁷ 🏳️‍🌈🇮🇳 (@i07_nam) reported 8 minutes ago

  @i97youu Hello, uh do you by any means know if i can use my other gmail acc for this? I can't find the option to log out and, login via a different mail? 🥹

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  Kebbi (@swororow) reported 9 minutes ago

  @TeamYouTube Please help! My Gmail was hacked and deleted and I cannot recover it! I’ve heard that I can get the issue looked into through dms with the account access team!

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  UnknownDanny (@FlavourUnknown) reported 10 minutes ago

  @glintintel Discord almost no reply, slow communication, can not login with gmail ? Wth ?

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  Rishi (@RishiUvaach) reported 13 minutes ago

  Your longer chats aren't smarter. They're dumber. Here are the 12 wrong facts you (still) believe: 1. LONGER CHAT → not smarter ☑ One chat = one task. Finish it after getting done. ☑ Need the context? Ask for a 5-line summary, paste it into a fresh chat. Faster AND cheaper. 2. CLAUDE AGREEING → not a proof you're right ☑ "Argue the strongest case against this. Be harsh." ☑ Test: if it can't find a flaw, your idea isn't ready. 3. CONFIDENT → not always correct ☑ Prompt with: "Rate your confidence 1–10 & what change would you make to your answer." ☑ A 6/10 with reasons beats a 10/10 with vibes. 4. PROMPTING → you don't need to learn it ☑ You only need 4 words: "Ask me questions first." ☑ Claude interviews you. You click. That's it. 5. LONGER PROMPT → not a better prompt ☑ Don't write "do step 1, then 2." Write the end goal ☑ "Make this report something my CEO screenshots." It's smarter than your directions. 6. BROWSER → switch to Claude app ☑ The Claude app builds the real file in your folder. ☑ The browser makes you copy-paste. ☑ Make a folder, call it "cowork," point Claude at it. Now it ships .xlsx, .pptx, .pdf - for real. 7. CHAT → not the whole building ☑ Chat is floor 1: Cowork, Skills, Code are upstairs. ☑ Open the app, click Cowork (the whole upgrade). 8. SKILLS → build one tonight, no code ☑ Type /skill-creator and say: "Teach Claude to do [your task] the way I like it. Ask me questions first." ☑ Now it fires on its own when the task fits. 9. PASTING LOGINS → never do this ☑ Never paste a password. No need to explain why. ☑ That's literally what connectors are for. ☑ Customize → Connectors → connect Gmail, Calendar, Drive properly. 10. AI → keep the understanding ☑ Outsource the typing. Not the understanding. ☑ Don't ship what you can't explain. After answers: "Explain this to me like I'll be questioned on it." 11. FIRST DRAFT → it's the starting line ☑ The first draft is yours to fix, not to ship. ☑ Prompt: "What's the weakest part of this? Fix it." 12. TOO FAR BEHIND → no, you're not ☑ The bar to 'knowing how' is to try it. ☑ Open Claude tonight. Not Monday. Tonight. Quick gut-check before you scroll: If you nodded at even 3 of these, that's not a 'you' problem - nobody told you.

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  Peter (@peter) reported 13 minutes ago

  I’m not sure what Google’s plan for AI in Gmail is, but their “AI inbox” isn’t it. Completely irrelevant notifications, some highlighting “deadlines” from 5 days ago, while actually urgent stuff gets missed. Terrible intro to Gmail AI as a user. I’ve already turned it off.

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  Ivan Landabaso (@IvanLandabaso) reported 15 minutes ago

  1/ Act 1: The Wilderness (2017-2020, $0 to <$1M) After ~100 rejections, one name was left on their list: Mark Cuban. Steffen found his private Gmail inside the Sony hack data dump (anyone could download it back then, wild), sent a cold email with a video of the tech, and Cuban replied in 5 minutes ($1M at a $5M post). - Lever 1: they marketed a product that didn't exist yet by making famous people speak languages they don't. A BBC anchor in Mandarin, Beckham asking for malaria donations in 9 languages (800M+ impressions), Messi selling Lay's (a Cannes Lion), etc. Great (almost free) distribution leverage for a 10-person startup at the time. - Lever 2: they killed their only product with real revenue on purpose. Dubbing booked just under $1M over 18 months but sat at the wrong end of the workflow, "a vitamin, not a painkiller" as Victor puts it, so they shut it down (trade-off to identify and focus on a long term revenue driver, corporates). - Lever 3: they sold a worse video to people comparing it to no video at all. A clunky 2020 avatar lost to a film crew but it beat the 15-page PDF nobody tended to read in a coroporation, and that flipped pretty much everything (roadmap, monetization and trajectory). Self-serve hit $0 to $1M ARR in ~4 months.

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  Fern Valerius (@betzi_star) reported 16 minutes ago

  @GeminiApp @gmail for the record tho i loved the crystal ball. mad about that also voice consistency is terrible except for some reason within chats on the ipad. what the french toast?

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  HeyNikhila (@HeyNikhila) reported 18 minutes ago

  @surjithctly @FormNX Currently, clicking on that auto-fills the email or takes to gmail as per your login If masked this might not be useful then... FB does the same

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  serial unrigger (@serialunrigger) reported 21 minutes ago

  @IceSolst major mail service providers like gmail have made all these mostly-pointless things a soft requirement to run your own mail server. dkim is about attribution, so no server can claim after the fact that they/their user did not send the mail. it's a scheme to ruin self hosting.

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  Swifter (@SwtNir) reported 26 minutes ago

  @TeamYouTube My gmail account is hacked and I cannot recover it. Someone has changed the password, added a passkey, changed the contact number, changed recovery email and everything. There is no way to sign-in. Google account recovery is not working as well. Please help!!!!!

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  Numan (@Numan_Ai12) reported 26 minutes ago

  So I started turning it off. First, the switch they actually show you. On desktop: open Gmail, click the gear, then See all settings. On the General tab, find Smart Features, uncheck it, scroll down and Save. Then I learned that was only half of it.

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  Anuvrat Singh (@anuvrat_singh) reported 27 minutes ago

  For context on how bad 36/100 actually is: the alert system was also making 2,000 sequential email connections per send cycle. At 1,000 subscribers that's enough to get the whole service rate-limited by Gmail. Not a slow feature. A feature that quietly stops working at scale, with no error, no log, nothing telling you it failed. This is the stuff that's invisible until it isn't.

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  【 𖤓 】 (@DAWNIKOSUN) reported 28 minutes ago

  @caelaron ⠀ ⌗ ( ✎ ) you should !! and if you’re having trouble on making a email and want to use the same one .. what I do is this ‘ example+alt @ gmail ‘ and if I want to make more then I put a number next to the alt ⠀

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  Brandforma — Minimalist Logo Design Studio (@brandforma) reported 32 minutes ago

  A silent technical bug cost me 5 client leads over the past month. My business email stopped delivering to Gmail. No bounce. No error. Emails were sent, I just never received them. Hosting changed something server-side. Everything looked fine from the outside. The fix took minutes. The damage was already done. The lesson: test your business email regularly. Send a test message. Click your own contact form. Don't assume it works because it used to.

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  Sunil Kumar (@Sunil111s) reported 41 minutes ago

  @DarthKermi72747 @NTA_Exams Hello brother I need your help. I can't login My gmail account. I have available recovery phone number but I have same email otp problem. Please contact me brother.

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  Orion pax (@pax_orion9583) reported 42 minutes ago

  @VedxntR This leak can also happen at gmail,reddit, whatsapp, discord, and physical paper this doesn't solve the actual problem buddy

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  BleepBloop (@DavB_4) reported 44 minutes ago

  @juan_quenga @Samaytwt That sounds like a gmail user problem...

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  FATHELA ESQ (@AmControo) reported 47 minutes ago

  Before you pay for extra Gmail storage, check this first. Before you pay for extra Gmail storage, check this first. Before you pay for extra Gmail storage, check this first. Google storage fills up quietly, and many people rush to pay without checking what is actually consuming the space. Most people blame Gmail, but the real problem is often somewhere else. With one proper clean-up, you can free up a surprising amount of storage in less than ten minutes. Here is the method:👇

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  𝑨𝒃𝒉𝒊 𝒌𝒖𝒎𝘢𝒓 (@Abhikumar_) reported 47 minutes ago

  My old phone was lost and 2-step verification was on it I still have my recovery number but can’t recover my Gmail account I can’t verify ownership with my number and it always say Couldn’t sign in It has important data @GoogleIndia @Google @gmail #gmail #google #accountrecovery

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  kuno⁷ (@kthsass) reported 48 minutes ago

  @jmincdior i hid it in the ss lol i used gmail email phone number EVERYTHING it's not working

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  lterlemez (@lterlemez) reported 50 minutes ago

  @examaddaorg Meta, neverever; Google never except drive and gmail but never trust for important data and communication, MS some (if it is on Exchange server, some) not much or less than Google. Apple never; Amazon and Notion are never used. And I trust none of the AI, they are data thieves.

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  Junaid iqbal Wahlah Zetarium (@junaidwahlah1) reported 52 minutes ago

  @MichelleStraus4 @CeliaWallet Otp issue otp is not received on gmail

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  HaⓂ️za Bawany 🇵🇰🇺🇸 (@hamza_bawany) reported 54 minutes ago

  @StockSwingAlert I try to pay with my hotmail account and ur system says this email is already registered in database, i dont remember the password for it so i paid with my gmail account, but my discordnis registered under my hotmail account. You thing that will be problem? May be you can add me

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  dill | 🗡️ herbhaalist • astarion's right fang 🩸 (@lumalangoy_) reported 56 minutes ago

  I rarely use Gmail nowadays because we have a work email server and every time I use Gmail now, I get jumpscared with the Elden Email extension I had installed

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  ‧₊˚✧Karen✧˚₊‧ | Agent P (@Lovely_Karen_) reported 58 minutes ago

  @bambiaatch I also can't access it either and I used my Gmail I hope its just a glitch

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  Zach Shakked (@zachshakked) reported 59 minutes ago

  @dvassallo Good to know. Did you continue to use openclaw with that Gmail without issues?