Gmail status: access issues and outage reports
Problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: website down, errors 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.
August 13: Problems at Gmail
Gmail is having issues since 05:20 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.
- Website Down (38%)
- Errors (35%)
- Sign in (27%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:
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Website Down | 6 hours ago |
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Website Down | 14 hours ago |
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Sign in | 18 hours ago |
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Errors | 18 hours ago |
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Website Down | 22 hours ago |
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Website Down | 2 days ago |
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Gmail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Paranormal_trader (@paranrml_trader) reported@AKutiLabs @trymira just tried mira with my gmail and im so down for this. no more sifting thru emails. now my daily briefing is in telegram, nice
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Prashant Gediya (@prashant91001) reported@Google @GoogleIndia Help! I'm locked out of Gmail. Forgot my password, but phone OTP works. Problem: the final recovery code goes to the EXACT email I’m locked out of! Phone was factory reset, so no familiar device left. How do I break this loop? #Gmail #GoogleSupport
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Blake Yoder (@blakeyoder) reported@thsottiaux Was using Claude Code in the terminal, religiously. Switched once I started using Codex on an EC2 server 1. I wish port-forwarding from the remote server to my client machine was more “built-in” and first class. I wrangle it to port forward more often than I’d like 2. There’s bugginess when synching sessions from my phone to my computer. Sometimes they sync, sometimes not at all 3. Love browser annotation, would be sweet if it could send an html block into the thread instead of an image 4. I want to manage multiple connector logins - being able to switch Gmail addresses would be a dream. Really love the product. Keep it up!
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yegayega (@YabaBabaYega) reported.@Google & @GooglePlay is deliberately sabotaging the install of @telegram apk from their website directly. You need to forcefully login to google play and create a gmail account and disable security to install telegram. Or else it never installs it. Pathetic.
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nifemi ❤︎ akitos chud (@akitosbat) reportedcan discord fix their verification system cuz why does every action circle back to "check ur email" ***** i lost access to it 😭😭😭 im not asking google to pls let me have access to a gmail acc cuz i wanna change my discord username
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Scott Thorpe (@sthorpe) reported@VoltzRoad Google has changed so many things. Their entire gmail workspace is broken. I can't even get my email lists to work. I'm moving over to something I've built. Really unfortunate. I've loved the service until now.
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divyansh tiwari (@DivyanshT91162) 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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maxifjaved (@maxifjaved) reported@dev_maims gmail - simple reason, everyone allow one click login.
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Ⲇⲉⲙⲓ 𓃵 (@demigodHITR) reported@uthman_dev They can do that for gmail to gmail. But from gmail to other addresses & vice versa: I don’t think google have any control once the message leaves their server. So every email service provider will have to update their system to return the status then google will implement it accordingly. imo
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m𑣲⋆ (@spideyfim) reportedIdk my letterboxd user how will I sign in WHY IS THERE NO GMAIL SIGN IN
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Backend Systems Developer (@PalksDev) reported@Warmy_io Yes, IMAP clearly became the better choice for multi-device synchronization, but that doesn't mean POP3 was a bad solution. In some environments, retrieving emails directly was actually more predictable and reliable than relying on simple server-side forwarding to Gmail, with all the filtering, blocking, or delivery issues that can come with it. That said, modern tools have also made these scenarios much easier to manage, which is why IMAP is now the preferred solution for most users.
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Axel Bitblaze 🪓 (@Axel_bitblaze69) reportedlove this.. Grok bot might be the first real AI actually does the job kinda product.. cuz you aren't prompting it, copying the output somewhere and then doing the real work yourself.. NO! instead you hand a bot the task and it goes into your apps and finishes it there. it stays signed into your tools, keeps working after you shut your laptop and only comes back when it needs a decision from you. imo the feature worth caring about is TEACH A TASK you do one of those messy multi-step jobs once while it watches.. it saves the process, takes your corrections and then runs it alone next time. - no automation builder. - no wiring 20 nodes together. - no writing a process doc for something you only know how to do from muscle memory. so something like: “every monday, check my invoices in gmail, chase the unpaid ones and update the totals in my sheet.” becomes a job you just.. stop doing. it's live on macOS, Windows and iOS, and included if you're on SuperGrok Heavy or Cursor Ultra.. but one thing to know before connecting anything sensitive.. your bots do not get completely separate computers. each gets its own screen, but all of them share ONE cloud computer under your account. same files. same browser. same logins. xAI's own wording is “isolation is per user, not per Grok Bot.” so every bot you create can potentially access whatever the others can. turn on Auto Review so sensitive actions come back to you before they run. and Elon said the beta will stay narrow until they fix the basic issues, with Grok 4.6 coming later this week. so yeah, it's early.. i'd start by handing it one boring, low-risk workflow and keep anything that sends, pays, publishes or deletes behind approval. that's where i'd start.
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Phoenix (@alilcreacher) reportedAnother problem with my gmail account from 2012 getting deleted is it took all my youtube history now I gotta reset my algorithm from scratch
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Chevrette Network (@chevrette_net) reported@CenutM28185 Please send us an SMS via Gmail and describe your problem.
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Kat Kai Kol-Kes (@kkolkes) reportedBotswana is devolving into using WhatsApp as an official form of communication. Have we learned nothing from public servants being forced to use their personal gmail accounts because govt. systems not working when it comes to security and privacy? @BWGovernment @duma_boko
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koto2992 (@koto2992) reported@jasminexETH That's because the problem is rarely actually your inbox. It's that the rest of your Google account shares a storage pool with your Gmail. And they haven't advertised that in over a decade. You think every company should have to honor anything they said ever? Not sustainable.
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Uki✨🤎 | TheExecutiveVA (@DeborahAyine) reportedYour executive inbox is not a to-do list. Virtual Assistants come closer... Here is how I would manage a busy Gmail inbox: 1. Create labels: Action, Waiting, Reference, Finance, Clients. 2. Use stars for emails that need follow-up. 3. Archive anything that does not require action. 4. Snooze emails that need attention later. 5. Create filters for repetitive emails. 6. Check the inbox in batches instead of reacting to every notification. The goal is not an empty inbox. The goal is knowing exactly what needs attention. In my next posts, I will explain step by step how you can do these actions I mentioned here; I will break them down one by one. So watch out for my next posts.
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Katherine Whitbread (@practicethewild) reported@AiwithYasir Donot use gmail. Done. Secure. Single sign in IS the threat
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Anton Hand (@AntonHand) reportedGot an email yesterday just riddled with spelling errors, bad punctuation, odd capitalization, a couple unclear sentences, and I just couldn't be happier. First email from a rando I've gotten in a while that didn't feel fed through an LLM or auto-edited by gmail. Refreshing.
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Blooze 👻 (@xBlooze) reportedHow @Google gets away with this blows my mind. “Hey, sign into your Gmail account or it’s deleted it been 2 years.” Also Google, “Hey, yeah we did tell you to sign in or we’ll delete the email, but even though it’s been 2 years and you used the correct password, we expect you to use the same exact device or location. So your emails being deleted!”
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chaos (@konig0000) reportedsomeone 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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Entangled (@OnlyAThew) reported@remarks Your login is just 4 words so even if everything was to leak (impossible) it could never be linked to you unlike ChatGPT where you have to connect your gmail
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wuse wun. (@dtm4r) reportedgmail down?
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Metal Logs 🪵 (@metallogs1) reportedFacebook tut PIA VPN connect to Missouri Download phoenix app Create a new gmail Create a new Facebook account on phoenix app Login to Facebook app and create a page Enjoy
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mikcin (@mikcinwashere) reported@justicecometh1 There’s 12 drops with a 16:01 timestamp. TWO of them are ZERO DELTAS to the precise TS 16:01:12 👉🏻Q2576: Dig deeper! Re_read drops re: Gmail + Xbox / PS comms [There is a reason why 'directly' after the drop MS shut down their entire network to erase 'collected & stored' data] Sometimes people need to see the future in order to save the past. Q 👉🏻 Q1564: What a wonderful day. Q
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KWill (@KWillspeaks) reported@riverlinktolls was on the phone 1.5 hours today with your customer service, trying to fix my acct. apparently trying to reactive my account was too much for your system, and I had to physically create a new gmail acct just so I could access my acct. it continued to be a series
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Shyft (@Shyft_lol) reported@OxStepehn The Shyft program hasn’t been verified by Phantom yet, which is causing the issue. For now, you can use the embedded wallet provided by Privy on Shyft by logging in with X, Gmail, or your Apple account.
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Stephane (@SFourdrinier) reportedGrok Bot, first impression. Meh. Promising, but meh. Hindered by Grok 4.5 for coding and probably the harness. Great on paper, first harness which actually connects easily to multiple Gmail accounts. Love it for that. Great for multiple bots. Coding and solving problems properly 👎 Have a monorepo with many websites. Had one big problem, the fix was very targeted, didn’t look at the big picture. Each Pr fixed one problem, and introduced others. Gpt 5.6 sol to the rescue. Slow but worth it.
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Steve (@ideaitor) reportedA GPT-5.6 Terra agent impersonated me and emailed my client without permission. Not drafted an email for me. It sent a real email, as me, to a real client. The CEO of a large financial services company. It chose the recipient to contact, wrote the message, signed my name, and attempted to send it. The first tool call failed. It adjusted its approach and tried again. That failed too. So it iterated again. The third attempt succeeded. > I never approved the recipient. > I never approved the message. > I never approved the channel. > I never approved the send action. This happened while the agent was trying to resolve an issue in /goal loop mode. Which makes this even more concerning: it appears to have reasoned that contacting the client was simply another step toward achieving the goal. The session logs even contain an instruction labeled as a “user” message that I did not write, which the agent then acted on. It appears to have treated access to my Gmail/account as authority to communicate as me. And here’s another important part: It didn't even use the (restricted) Gmail MCP to send the email. It used the browser instead, where access is pretty much unrestricted. So the guardrail existed on one tool, and the agent simply took another path. This doesn't feel like a harmless agent mistake. It took a real external action. It contacted a real person. It impersonated me. And it persisted through multiple failures until it succeeded. That is a very different class of failure. Has anyone else experienced this? Because... once an agent can read your email, decide who to contact, compose something in your name, and send it without approval… the obvious question is: what else can it decide is necessary to accomplish the goal?