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.

• Website Down (37%)
• Errors (34%)
• Sign in (30%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
La Clusaz	Website Down	11 hours ago
Gasteiz / Vitoria	Sign in	1 day ago
Bréhan	Sign in	1 day ago
Paris	Website Down	2 days ago
Paris	Website Down	3 days ago
Cannes	Sign in	3 days ago

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Gmail Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  muhammadriyaz (@riyaz0786ahmad) reported 3 minutes ago

  @TeamYouTube Gmail recovery sem OTP issue first OTP mobile number available second OTP same Gmail issue

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  Joseph Szobody (@jszobody) reported 4 minutes ago

  @awcodes1 What about a Chrome extension instead? That way it could actually monitor your Gmail inbox for magic login links or 2FA code and auto redirect to the link or enter the code for you. Flow ends up: click this button to receive a magic link… and a few seconds later the extension just handles it and you’re in.

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  enes (@eneszyyl) reported 7 minutes ago

  @gmail My phone's motherboard was replaced, causing a HWID change. Now I'm trapped in a broken 2FA loop! I verify my SMS code, but your system demands a code sent to the LOCKED Gmail account itself "Try another way" gives ZERO options. Please human support help!

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  John Peterson (@johnpetersontx) reported 8 minutes ago

  @chrisfromthelc I don’t understand the issue here. Gmail is exceptional at finding emails. Maybe people don’t know the query syntax?

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  AI Guides (@free_ai_guides) reported 9 minutes ago

  Paola Estefania of Better Auth spent 40 minutes at the AI Engineer World's Fair explaining why your AI agents should never act with your credentials, and made it clearer than any agent security guide I've read. This is what she walked through: 1. Give agents authority, not your credentials. Most people connect an agent to their Gmail and calendar with their own token, so it acts as them. "We need to stop giving our credentials to our agents. We need to give them authority. Stop saying pretend to be me. Start saying act for me within these limits." That one reframing, credentials to authority, is the whole protocol in a sentence. 2. Treat an agent like a new hire, not the CEO. She frames access as an org-chart question: what you hand a new employee versus what you would never hand over. "You never give someone the CEO's credentials and say go read the email. Anything could happen. With agents, that is exactly what we do." An agent should get a scoped badge of its own, the way a new hire does. 3. Capabilities beat scopes. Today you grant a broad OAuth scope like read access to an entire inbox. "A scope like read is a big thing, nothing specific. A capability is capped down. I can determine exactly what action an agent can do." That shrinks the blast radius from the whole inbox to one named action. 4. Agents need a phone book to find what they can do. Right now you wire each tool to an agent by hand, with no automatic way for it to learn what it is allowed to do. "The directory is like a phone book for the agent. Your intent gets matched to the capabilities it can actually call." Discovery becomes a lookup instead of a wiring job you maintain forever. 5. Give every agent its own identity and private key. The fix for traceability is cryptographic: each agent signs its own tokens. "Each agent gets its own private key attached to its identity. Now Gmail does not just see a user. It sees this specific agent acting on my behalf." The agent stops hiding behind you and becomes a principal you can name. 6. If you can identify an agent, you can fire it. Identity is what lets you hold an agent accountable after something goes wrong. "If the agent does something wrong, you can fire it. You revoke that one identity. Today you have to disconnect the whole thing." Revocation goes from nuking every integration to firing one bad actor. That's the identity layer for agents. Once you are wiring several of them together, one loop isn't enough, and that's graph engineering. Guide below.

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  Lincoln 🇿🇦 (@Presidentlin) reported 10 minutes ago

  The best quality of life improvement for me with these AI tools most the coding CLIs + ChatGPT is the blinking cursor problem. There were all these little things that I know I aught to be doing but not doing but should be doing and if I did them it would each bring 1-3% improvements to my life. Examples: - That email you know you should have responded to but didn't (Gemini in Gmail emails, I write the roughest version, Gemini makes it professional than I unslop it) - Generating bottom of funnel blog posts - Generating articles and posts for your brand accs. - Fixing stupid SEO mistakes - Using GPT to help with Gov email responses. The focus is on things that I just need 10% to get done then I'll finish the rest. The 10% is the painful part, the rest is easy after.

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  Lily (@lily_choudhury_) reported 14 minutes ago

  A freelancer got an email that looked exactly like her bank. Right logo, right formatting, right sender name. It asked her to "verify" her account by clicking a link and entering her login. She didn't click it. Instead, she looked at one detail Gmail had been quietly showing her the entire time, on every email, for years — and realized the message hadn't come from her bank at all. It came from a domain that didn't exist. That one habit, using a feature she'd never been taught, is the entire reason she didn't lose access to an account holding $40,000. Gmail is the most-used email service on Earth, and most people only ever use it to read, reply, and search. Here are 11 hidden Gmail features almost nobody uses 🧵

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  ˗ˏˋ Jesse Hanley ˎˊ˗ (@jessethanley) reported 16 minutes ago

  @JackEllis @Fastmail All inbox providers are having these issues. There's a lot of backchannel conferences where they are trying to tackle it. It's hard because lots are rotating through Gmail accounts/IPv6s which is harder to block. Cold emailing has gotten really sophisticated now.

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  Super G (@Sum708090100) reported 18 minutes ago

  @okolie_jer38669 I had to buy 1 and YouTube blocked it 2 month later laSt week due to gmail issues

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  Eric Smith (@Eric_Smith08) reported 21 minutes ago

  A guy had 847,000 emails in his Gmail account. 94GB of storage. Full. He couldn't find anything. He scrolled. He guessed. He typed names and hoped. He spent 15-20 minutes a day hunting for one email he knew existed somewhere in the pile. His sister a Google Workspace admin who manages Gmail for a 500-person company sat down at his laptop, opened Gmail, and typed 8 characters into the search bar: larger:10M 47,000 results appeared. Every email in his account larger than 10 megabytes forgotten attachments, giant PDFs, old slide decks, photos from 2017. She selected all. Deleted. Emptied trash. 78GB freed. In 90 seconds. Then she showed him 10 more search operators. He stopped organizing his inbox entirely. He stopped creating folders. He stopped scrolling. He just searches now. "You don't need a clean inbox. You need to know how to find anything in a messy one. Gmail's search is the most powerful email search engine on earth. You've been using 1% of it by typing names and hoping." Here are 11 Gmail search operators that find any email in 2 seconds and the storage trick that frees gigabytes in 90 seconds 🧵

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  Krishna Singh (@krishnasinghdev) reported 24 minutes ago

  @Google I've reached a point where I genuinely don't trust Gmail's account recovery system anymore. Why does Gmail sometimes keep sending verification codes to the very email account I'm locked out of, instead of offering the option to receive an OTP on my verified phone number? Other times, it asks me to verify using a device I stopped using years ago, with no practical alternative. The most frustrating part is the lack of a way to contact a real support team. There seems to be no process where you can submit proof that you're the legitimate owner of the account—whether it's identity documents, recovery information, or any other evidence. For many of us, a Gmail account isn't just an email address. It's connected to years of personal memories, important documents, banking, work accounts, photos, and countless other services. Losing access can feel like losing a part of your digital life. I understand that strong security is important, but a recovery system should also be practical for legitimate account owners. Right now, it feels like the system can lock out the real owner while offering no meaningful way to resolve the issue. Has anyone else experienced this? Were you eventually able to recover your account, or did you lose access permanently? I'd really like to hear other people's stories and what worked for them.

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  Opskribe (@Opskribe_Ai) reported 24 minutes ago

  New consensus this week: AI agents can't run a process you never wrote down. So here's one Opskribe wrote in 8 seconds: Refund a customer 1. Verify order in Stripe 2. Confirm under 30 days 3. Issue refund 4. Email the customer Tools: Stripe, Gmail Done: Stripe shows Succeeded

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  lagerskoy (@lagerskoy) reported 27 minutes ago

  He wrote the reference book on distributed systems. Over 300,000 copies, eight languages, at one point the second best-selling title in O'Reilly's entire catalogue. He teaches at Cambridge. He also sold a company to LinkedIn for a reported $15 million, and in March 2020 LinkedIn switched it off. In May 2024 he stood up in Berlin and explained how to make sure that never happens to anyone else's users. The principles have been public and free since 2019. The AI industry spent the following six years rebuilding the exact architecture they warn against. 2012 Martin Kleppmann's startup Rapportive is acquired by LinkedIn. It was a Gmail plugin that showed you who you were emailing, and people built it into their daily workflow so thoroughly they forgot it was not a native feature. 2013 He reads a two-year-old paper by Marc Shapiro, Nuno Preguiça, Carlos Baquero and Marek Zawirski describing conflict-free replicated data types. Data structures where two people can edit the same thing offline, independently, and the results merge without a server deciding who wins. He sees a way out of the cloud-centric architecture the whole industry had settled into. Nobody follows him for years. The technology is academic, the demos are text editors in Ruby, and cloud apps are winning on every dimension users can see. 2019 With three collaborators at Ink and Switch he publishes an essay naming the alternative and setting out seven ideals for it. Your data lives on your device. The software keeps working with the network down. It survives the company that made it. March 2020 LinkedIn shuts down the product he sold them, citing low adoption. Everyone who had made it part of their workflow loses it on a Wednesday. There is a blog that has been cataloguing this exact event since 2013. It is called Our Incredible Journey, after the phrase these announcements always use. Its own description is the sharpest line in the genre: the company's journey continues, and yours ends, because everything you made must now be deleted. Which is why the Berlin talk has a slide about making software incredible-journey-proof. He also gives the test, in eleven words: if it doesn't work with the wifi off, it's not local-first Now point that at the thing you used this morning Your AI memory, your context, your chat history, your agent's accumulated state. All of it sits in an account you do not control, on infrastructure you cannot inspect, under a model that gets deprecated on someone else's schedule. Six years of local-first work exists and almost none of it has been applied to the layer where AI keeps what it knows about you. An agent whose memory lives in a vendor's database is one acquisition away from amnesia. Open whichever app you depend on most Turn the wifi off Whatever still works is the part you actually own

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  Lobster Queen (@RoRoRoRoRose_) reported 29 minutes ago

  If Gemini was so great, why do you need to shove it down my throat by serving it to me in every single possible way? Why does my Gmail need six different "Try with AI" Buttons, why does Google Docs need five different ways to summon your shitbot? you know you must be failing.

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  VSR (@VSR9000) reported 29 minutes ago

  Despite unlimited money and talent, nearly every attempt to build social media apps like X eventually ended up in the infamous Google Graveyard. Here’s the full body count: 1. Google+ (2011–2019) Google’s biggest, most hyped swing at Facebook and Twitter. They launched with “Circles” — a way to sort your friends, family, and coworkers so you could share different stuff with different people. It was deeply integrated with YouTube and Gmail. Why it flopped: No clear reason to switch. Cluttered interface. Nobody was actually using it. Then a massive data leak in 2018 was the final nail. Google killed the consumer version in 2019. 2. Orkut (2004–2014) Launched the same year as Facebook and was actually one of Google’s most successful social networks… just not where it mattered most. It was a classic social site: friends, communities, ratings. It exploded in Brazil and India but never caught fire in the US or Europe. Once Facebook went global, Orkut slowly bled out and got shut down in 2014. 3. Google Buzz (2010–2011) Google’s attempt at Twitter, built straight into Gmail. You could post links, photos, videos, and status updates to your contacts. It lasted barely a year because it was a privacy nightmare. By default it made your most-emailed contacts public. Backlash was immediate, the FTC sued, and Google quietly buried it. 4. Google Wave (2009–2012) The most ambitious (and most confusing) project of the bunch. It tried to merge email, instant messaging, wikis, and real-time collaborative docs into one thing. You could watch people type live and drag media straight into conversations. It was basically Slack/Discord years early… but almost nobody understood what it was supposed to replace. Too clever for its own good. Dead by 2012. 5. The smaller experiments Even after Google+ died, they kept poking at social: Shoelace (2019–2020): Hyperlocal app to help people in the same city meet up for real-life events. Perfect timing… right before COVID killed all offline plans. Shut down in 2020. Keen (2020–2024): AI-powered Pinterest alternative for curating interest boards. Quietly killed in early 2024. What’s left? YouTube. That’s it. Google’s only real social media win. Instead of chasing another text-based timeline, they’ve gone all-in on short-form video with YouTube Shorts and just pulling social content from everywhere else into Google Discover.

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  داروین تقلبی (@Amir127OO1) reported 32 minutes ago

  @Google Google's Gmail recovery is a shameful catch-22: you can set your own email as recovery email + enable 2FA, then get permanently locked out with no real support. A preventable design flaw that traps millions. Fix it, Google.

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  🌻 SOLAR ECLIPSE ☀️ (@the_fools_umbra) reported 32 minutes ago

  @discord @TeamYouTube @Google This hacker has locked my Gmail behind "Family Linking" as my alleged "parent", so I cannot sign in, change my passwords, or kick them out without THEIR CONSENT. The only people who can get my account back are Google themselves, and they refuse to aid me.

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  Monster Mankar (@MonsterMankar) reported 33 minutes ago

  @GoogleIndia I am unable to login to my gmail account even my gpay is not working.. need help

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  Bhargav (@bhargav22599) reported 35 minutes ago

  @brave Don't know what's stopping you @brave from creating a user profile linked with Gmail or something, which could be accessed accross devices with user login with history and bookmarks

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  pupupu (@0xpupupu) reported 36 minutes ago

  OPUS 5 JUST DROPPED. IT WORKS MORE AUTONOMOUSLY THAN EVER Nobody sets guardrails after the damage. They set them 30 seconds before connecting the tool, or they don't set them at all. Opus 5 launched this week built to run longer and think for itself before asking u anything. It verifies its own work and recovers from errors without stepping in for permission first. That's power. It's also more steps where it can touch something u never meant to give it access to. 1. Draft-only, always. AI never sends anything on its own, Gmail, Slack, whatever. It writes the draft, a human hits send. 1 rule, 0 exceptions. 2. No delete permission, period. Not files, not emails, not records. If a tool doesn't let u separate "write" from "delete," that's ur first red flag before u even connect it. 3. New tool, new guardrails. Don't reuse the same rules for Gmail and for a payment API. Different tool, different blast radius. 4. Ask the AI to write its own limits. Before connecting anything unfamiliar, prompt it: "walk me through what hard limits and guardrails I should consider for this specific tool." It knows its own risk surface better than most people guessing. 5. Confirm before anything irreversible runs. Sends, deletes, payments, force-pushes. If it can't be undone, it needs a human eyeball first, no exceptions for "trusted" agents. The agent isn't careless. The setup just never asked it to be careful. What's the 1 guardrail u wish u'd set up before it was too late?

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  flanz 🍮 (@kamenvram) reported 37 minutes ago

  yo im so cooked i got hacked got my gmail deleted (a day ago) and i cant recover it becuase of googles ******* "google doesn't provide another way to sign in to this account" damn you youtube why do you still have to charge my memberships even after my whole yt channels gone.

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  Spookie (@SpookieGames) reported 38 minutes ago

  @Innovashift @chasingsreams @tarunvats33 Can confirm. They straight up told me that they could not reproduce it. I once reported that the search inside Gmail is not visible with the broken color palette and rather than fixing the color palette they made the search different color somehow 😭 and marked it as fixed.

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  Mac (@Mac497162062285) reported 40 minutes ago

  NO ONE AT GOOGLE AND I MEAN NO ONE WILL HELP OR EVEN ANSWER YOU WITH A GMAIL ISSUE I HAVE NOT EVEN SUNDAR THE OWNER. THE CUSTOMER SERVICE AT GOOGLE GMAIL IS AT IT'S ALL TIME LOW

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  Krishna Singh (@krishnasinghdev) reported 50 minutes ago

  I've reached a point where I genuinely don't trust Gmail's account recovery system anymore. Why does Gmail sometimes keep sending verification codes to the very email account I'm locked out of, instead of offering the option to receive an OTP on my verified phone number? Other times, it asks me to verify using a device I stopped using years ago, with no practical alternative. The most frustrating part is the lack of a way to contact a real support team. There seems to be no process where you can submit proof that you're the legitimate owner of the account—whether it's identity documents, recovery information, or any other evidence. For many of us, a Gmail account isn't just an email address. It's connected to years of personal memories, important documents, banking, work accounts, photos, and countless other services. Losing access can feel like losing a part of your digital life. I understand that strong security is important, but a recovery system should also be practical for legitimate account owners. Right now, it feels like the system can lock out the real owner while offering no meaningful way to resolve the issue. Has anyone else experienced this? Were you eventually able to recover your account, or did you lose access permanently? I'd really like to hear other people's stories and what worked for them.

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  Evan (@hyler_evan1232) reported 51 minutes ago

  Anyone else having issues with Gmail?

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  7h3h4ckv157 (@7h3h4ckv157) reported 53 minutes ago

  Google prevents Gmail users from setting single-word names such as "Google" as their profile name, along with enforcing other restrictions such as symbols, length limits, and reserved keywords to reduce impersonation. However, the same validation wasn't enforced on the server during the mail sending process, allowing restricted display names to be injected into outgoing emails. This is display name spoofing, not email or domain spoofing. Risk: Scammers can utilize this to make phishing emails appear more convincing by impersonating trusted display names.

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  BEN (@BiGBENNGTR) reported 54 minutes ago

  Loader: all you need is ssn and bank login and na self cashout Give loader login and ssn Loader: ehh we go need e gmail login too Give loader the login Loader: Shey he go fit go bank go withdraw money or send the money give us or make he send waybill us e CC Loader too useless

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  CodewithDivine💙 (@CodewithDivine) reported 59 minutes ago

  Founders, devs, and busy professionals this one's for you. @Brevpulse was built to fix one problem: notification overload. One daily digest. All your apps. AI summaries. Email, WhatsApp, or Telegram delivery. you can connect apps like Gmail, slack, TikTok etc...

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  lesdoesart (@DrawsLes78493) reported 59 minutes ago

  is the identity verification tumblr a scam? Idk if it's real or scam. I have email sent me (twice) about if it's not me and it is me, l always use the website. I later press the restart password because l never created one and only login in my gmail

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  Leon Ni (@aileadworld) reported 59 minutes ago

  I heard early this morning that Andrew Ng released an open-source local agent. I was really curious—a project from the "Father of Google Brain" bound to have something unique, so I rushed to look it up. Sure enough, Andrew Ng posted a thread introducing their newly released project, OpenWorker. I’ve translated his post for everyone below: To summarize briefly: OpenWorker's goal is simply to get work done—organizing files, generating reports, replying on Slack, updating calendars, processing inboxes, checking task progress, and more. Put even simpler, it’s designed to deliver finished work straight to the user. But I have to ask: Is this really the open-source product built by the multi-titled "Father of Google Brain"? Project Overview OpenWorker is a local agent application open-sourced by Andrew Ng. It can connect to local files, the terminal, Slack, GitHub, Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion, and other tools. All you need to do is give it a goal. It will then break down the steps, call the necessary tools, ask for required approvals, and ultimately deliver documents, spreadsheets, reports, message replies, or other work outputs. DEMO Above is the DEMO released by Andrew Ng's team; below is mine. This time, I truly understood what "the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment" means. I review open-source projects all the time, and usually, I check out each new repo with a calm, neutral mindset. Today, knowing Andrew Ng released something, I was genuinely excited. I rushed to test it out to see a master at work. Let’s start with the pre-compiled installer version. Great. It spent the entire morning loading, and the model still failed to initialize. Since I couldn't modify the .dmg file, I had no choice but to deploy it from source code. It lacks multi-language support, so for the sake of demonstrating it clearly here, I added a quick localization tweak myself. Next, I configured the LLM provider—no major issues here; most standard options are covered, though some netizens complained that OpenRouter support is missing. Once the task started, the "interesting" parts began—starting with the bug that triggered the most backlash in the comments section. First issue: I just wanted to run a quick test, so I typed in a prompt: "Help me summarize the current state of Agents." Since I was using a Chinese input method (IME), typing the English word "Agent" required pressing Enter to confirm the text selection. The moment I hit Enter, half of my unfinished prompt got sent out automatically. That said, its mechanism of clarifying requirements through iterative questions is actually something I quite like—the clearer the requirement, the more accurate the output. It also includes various integrations (connectors) to link tools like Slack—which, honestly, isn't much different from connecting OpenClaw to Lark/Feishu. Final Thoughts I rarely criticize an open-source project. No matter the motivation, anyone contributing to the open-source community deserves credit. If I don't like a project, I usually just choose not to recommend it. But honestly, I fail to see the value in Andrew Ng releasing this project. How is this any different from OpenClaw??? The comment section is filled with the exact same question. Is this really a product that should come from a legendary figure in the AI space? I’m not saying every release needs to be ground-breaking, but at least include a few novel ideas. How is this different from putting a new UI wrapper on OpenClaw? Even if there’s no innovation, could you at least test it before releasing it to fix basic bugs? It’s not that I’m holding you to unreasonable standards—it’s that you should safeguard your own reputation and deliver a product that matches your stature. Gathering thousands of stars right after launch means you should be responsible to the people who supported you. Seriously, I beg you: please do something more meaningful! Use AI for healthcare to benefit humanity, or focus on education to teach and inspire... I sincerely hope top-tier AI leaders think this through.