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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
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Gmail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD (@malpani) reported@GeminiApp @gmail Peak 2026: Google's own AI can't fix Google's own email, so you outsource the repair to a rival. Like calling a plumber who hands you a competitor's card to fix his own pipes.
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🤷♀️ d-ab 🍒🦋 (@fossildab) reported@weiirdooky @mienjeongiee Mine too, tried my Gmail accoun but it says „Email/social accounts can only be used for login after you have registered your mobile phone number.“ 😢
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Kyle Dickson (@KDicksonDigital) reportedBad copy kills cold email accounts. So does an inbox that quietly started landing in spam three weeks ago. Only one of those shows up when you reread the email. I send cold email from thousands of inboxes. You can't check that by hand. So I built a Claude skill that runs the whole audit on one command. Type the slash command, name the client, walk away. Four things it checks: 1. Inbox placement. Sends from every inbox to Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo, then reports back inbox vs promotions vs spam. Anything sitting in spam gets rotated out. 2. Spam copy. Reads every live campaign in the account and flags the lines tripping filters. 3. DNS. SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX on every domain. A broken record tanks your sending without throwing an error. 4. Bounce rates. Pulls the rate on every mailbox. Too high comes out, a healthy inbox goes in. Then it writes a one-page report per client, so I know where each account stands before I open Instantly. I run it twice a week. Monday and Thursday. Comment "Playbook" and I'll send you the full cold email playbook I run these accounts on. Rewriting your copy is the easy fix to reach for. Check whether it's getting delivered first.
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Billy Howell (@billyjhowell) reported@lingxi Feature request: login to multiple Gmail accounts and switch between them instead of log out then log in
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HUNTEX™ - ÒGBÓJÚ ỌDẸ𓃵 🇳🇬➐ ⛋ (@I_am_huntex) reported@gmail why is my google account not connecting with my iPhone mail and contact? I keep signing in and its not signing me in, then i deleted and try to re-log in and it’s not working at all
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Jaydeep (@_jaydeepkarale) reportedGmail has been around for as long as most of us can remember. What’s fascinating from an engineering perspective is the scale behind seemingly simple operations. Billions of users. Billions of records. And yet, some lookups need to be answered in milliseconds. The naive approach is simple: just check the database. But at scale, “just check the database” becomes an expensive operation. So how do you avoid doing work you don't need to do? This is where Bloom Filters become interesting. A Bloom Filter lets you quickly determine whether an item is definitely not present or possibly present. Instead of hitting an expensive datastore for every lookup, you can eliminate a large number of unnecessary lookups before they happen. There is a trade-off, of course: Bloom Filters can produce false positives, but never false negatives. And that's the kind of trade-off senior engineers constantly make: Spend a tiny amount of memory and accept a little uncertainty to save a massive amount of computation. I broke down how Bloom Filters work, how the probability mathematics works, and why this deceptively simple data structure is useful in large-scale systems.
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Novemberblu2026 (@TersaAZymroz13) reported@LilithWraith versus her broken nose that she managed to sleep with. Then this current court case being over something that is almost a year ago in which she waited almost 8 months to report to police, unless I am missing something. Lastly the sigining in to JLR gmail and X account, allegedly
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Emdad Shaikh (@Emdad_AI) reportedIf someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵
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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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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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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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Seekay (@Seekay9) reported@dlnraves @jasonsgarage1 Wow.. I sense some hostility. Should of shopped around. You paid for it already. They got your money. Used a second Gmail account with YouTube premium. but if you cancel YouTube. Well you worked around the problem, right?
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MR - Michael Robertson (@mp3michael) reported@MikeAlbanese Maybe Gmail is too consumer and they can't use Google Workspace due to licensing issues?
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Mags (@MagravatorMag) reportedSee the documentary "Died Suddenly," which I was forbidden from sharing on any platform AND my T-Mobile phone and Google's Gmail. Good times, right, @TMobile and @gmail? I hope your companies die a slow and embarrassing death to serve as an example for the next batch of communist cowards who think they can shut us up. IT WAS ALL TRUE! 🖕
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depressed oilers fan (@skew_70) reported@gmail Fix yesterworlds monetization
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Anaesthesiologist (@DocR_B) reported@gmail Dear Team, my Gmail is not working on my android phone. I've cleared cache but it's still not working. Please help.
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rr🧃 (@justspacebaby) reported@I_am_huntex @gmail Oh I thought I was the only one experiencing this problem
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Of The People By The People For The People (@_OTP_BTP_FTP_) reported@RedactedNews What Google Logs on Its Servers When someone uses Google Search, the server logs contain significant metadata beyond what is publicly visible in Google Trends: Account Identifiers: If the user was logged into a Google account (Gmail, YouTube, Chrome, Android, etc.), the search query is linked directly to their Google Account ID. IP Address & Timestamp: Even if the user was logged out or in Incognito Mode, Google logs the user's IP address, device user-agent, and the exact timestamp of the query. Location Data: GPS or network-based location metrics associated with the device at the time of the search. How the Technical Trace Works 1. Reverse Keyword Request: In a legal discovery process, lawyers can issue a subpoena or court order demanding records for any search containing a specific string during a precise timeframe. 2. Identifying the Source: Logged-in search: Google directly identifies the user's Google Account (revealing name, recovery email, phone number, and signup IP). Logged-out / Incognito search: Google yields the IP address and exact timestamp. 3. Subpoenaing the ISP: If Google only yields an IP address, a second legal subpoena is sent to the Internet Service Provider (e.g., Comcast, AT&T) holding that IP block to match the timestamp to a residential address or subscriber name. Key Hurdles & Reality Checks 1. Data Retention Limits Google does not keep full, identifiable IP logs indefinitely. While aggregated metrics in Google Trends live on indefinitely, raw backend logs linking specific queries to IP addresses/accounts are routinely anonymized or deleted after a set retention window (typically 9 to 18 months). If the query happened too far in the past, the underlying server logs connecting the term to a person may no longer exist. 2. Civil Subpoena vs. Criminal Warrant Standards In criminal cases (e.g., corporate espionage investigated by the FBI), law enforcement uses "reverse keyword warrants" to compel Google to surrender user identities. In a civil lawsuit (e.g., suing an ex-employee or rival company for trade secret theft), judges scrutinize discovery requests heavily. You usually cannot issue a broad subpoena to Google to unmask unknown searchers without first presenting sufficient prima facie evidence that a specific, named defendant committed trade secret theft. 3. Circumvention Tactics If the person who searched the term used a VPN, Tor, or a public Wi-Fi network (like a coffee shop), Google’s logs will only trace back to the VPN server or public router rather than the individual's personal device.
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CosmicRichy (@CosmicRichy) reported@BitcoinNewsCom I’m calling bullshit on this story. First, there’s zero proof or screenshots to back up the original claim. All you’ve done is repost the original story with your take. Second, everyone knows how strict Google is. You so much as even look at your Gmail inbox wrong Google practically sends a swat team to your hours to make you verify your login. No one, and I mean absolutely no one, is gaining access to another Google account without the person knowing. There would be pop ups, notifications, confirmations sent to the user through their Google apps that are already installed on their devices. Third, what does a “compromised Google account” have to do with a crypto exchange? You’re telling me that this person used the exact same password as their “compromised Google account” and the exchange somehow approved the unusual login and large withdrawal without question even with the new Australian crypto regulations? Lol, okay sure.
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𝓋𝐙𝐞𝐞ִֶָ𓂃 ࣪ ִֶָ⋆࿐ᴸᵃᵐʳᵒⁿ𝓋 (@_thvjkz_) reported@JustAMoon9 The problem was in my gmail, after changing it I was allowed to submit the proofs. YAY. Thanks for the help🤍
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Robert Pickles (@cooksbayouboy) reported@Voxyz_ai Are all of the connectors working for you? The Gmail seems fine, GrokBot can't use the X connector (installed and authenticated) blaming cursor for an issue. It almost got my X account suspended attempting to login the web. I think the VM moves around, and sometimes has IP's from prohibited areas.
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Brian R (@Blast2hell) reportedStarted using Grok @bot over the weekend. Started with two bots to do work i hate doing. Gave one bot my Gmail accounts to delete trash email. The other bot i logged into quickbooks online and linked my bank accounts and told it to log expenses. QB bot falls asleep a lot and let's QB go idle a lot requires me to login again a lot due to expired session. Gmail bot is smart enough to spawn sub agents to trash emails, and rarely falls asleep. Tomorrow I attempt to teach basic IT support handling of password resets in Entra.
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NicoleTarinaM2 (@NicoleTarinaM2) reported💧 1909 Anyone have problems w/ their 'XBOX Live' accounts shortly after the drop yesterday? [Purge] How many coincidences before mathematically impossible? Q We have it all. The right people have the information. GOOD people are acting on the information. Think GOOG. Think ES departure. I NINK NK Many drafts. Many shared users [foreign & domestic]. Variable access. Codes. Fake emails. Game forum comms. New intel revealed today. Gmail comms. [R]. [EG]. Define Evergreen. When do you call a plumber? Ongoing investigations require..... Q [auth478-24zgP] Texts, emails (gmail), drafts (gmail), HAM comms, PS/Xbox chat logs.. JC-BO-CS-LL-#2-NO-SY Bonus round. Q Nothing to see here. Q
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17052 (@EggyySol) reportedNawa o @AirtelNigeria what’s going on with your network? For almost a week, youTube, gmail and every other google app haven’t been working on Airtel data. They work perfectly once I turn on a VPN. Even devices connected to my hotspot are having the same issue
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leonel (@aleonelfilm) reportedI feel like the only person on planet earth that feels the opposite of this. It’s fine! I’ve tried to use the Gmail app and I’ve always just gone back to Mail. I don’t get the issues people have with it
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jaipur social media prabhari (@mnfinance2577) reported@OlaElectric Dear Sir, my Ola Electric app is not working. ola support not response gmail send 7 days Number RJ14ZK6643
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Numan (@Numan_Ai12) reportedIf you've been using Gmail for years, it's likely that your storage bar is orange and shows a message that you're running out of space: "12.8 GB of 15 GB used." Google kindly offers you to pay €1.99 per month to upgrade to 100 GB. Before you pull out your card, let me tell you about a free option to solve this problem👇
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Tim (@winsznx) reportedMy Gmail is slowly becoming the most opened app I keep checking every 15 mins Lost 5k in April cause I was slow 🥲
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Oscar Diedrichs (@oscardiedrichs) reported@Techjunkie_Aman @TutaPrivacy The most private email is the one where you exchange keys before hand using a secure channel and then encrypt the email before sending it. Like it has always been. Problem with this is that most people are computer illiterate, yet they think "I rock in IT" because they can swipe on an iPhone. We used to see a surge in people getting smarter with a lot of cunning. Now we see the opposite. People are getting dumber, lazier and can't even install Signal, nor set up their own server with mattermost or whatever and they just love using Gmail or whatever service saying "I trust Google, I have nothing to hide". And the they make us all suffer because of their ignorance.
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Victor Escobedo (@datguacdoh) reported@AzianMike Definitely a case of shipping the org chart. This looks like the Chrome sidebar which is limited but if you did this within the Gmail Gemini feature it would likely work. Users shouldn't have to care. Problem of a massive company where each of these products serves >1B users!