Gmail status: access issues and outage reports
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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 4: Problems at Gmail
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Gmail users through our website.
- Website Down (37%)
- Errors (35%)
- Sign in (28%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:
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Gmail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Dantala (@Docfrosh) reportedLmao @gmail if I had my phone with me I wouldn’t login my gmail on another device, stop telling me to tap 98 on my device, it’s not with me, I have given you my password kindly open my email, what the actual ****..!
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bailey 𖤐⋆˚࿔⟡ˎˊ˗ IS A STAR! ⭐️ (@gxldenvapor) reportedI’ve used outlook my whole life because Gmail is god awful but **** outlook has given me problems since last year I swear it gets compromised all the time it’s so annoying like I can’t go one day without phishing emails
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Igor Fedorko (@igor_fedorko) reportedI built myself a brutal piece of automation with AI for the boring half of running a web agency, re-invoicing hosting and domains to clients. A renewal charge from the hosting provider triggers everything: a matching layer decides who pays what, my invoicing API issues the document, Gmail sends it with the PDF attached. The rules live in my own CRM, not in the scripts, because they are business decisions. Invoices upsert on an external id, so a rerun never doubles anything.
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rucha (@ruchagavaskar_) reportedx api is so buggy :((((( im building an inbox orchestrator for @majamediaco but facing issues w x legacy dms. if you've worked w it before please lmk!! also if you wanna try it out, i'll add you to the testers :) it supports gmail & x as of now (working on adding ig & substack) so you never miss a life changing message!
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Eduardo Manchón (@eduardomanchon) reportedIn 2013 in Barcelona Nacho Gonzá***-Barros founded The Mail Track Company S.L. and invented Mailtrack, the green double-check for Gmail. 10 years later the company was renamed as Mailsuite S.L. When Mailtrack launched in 2013 nobody was doing read receipts inside Gmail. We took the double-check from messaging apps, people understood it in one second, and it worked: 14 million registered users. Then the copies started to arrive. Last week I counted 21 products using our name or copying our interface. MailTracker, Mail Tracker, mailtrack dot email. Same name with one letter moved. Same green checks. Some copy even our pricing page. The last one arrived 10 days ago. Same name, letter by letter. During years I took it personally. Now I see it different: nobody copies a bad idea 21 times. A clone is a compliment with bad manners. But now there is a new problem and this one is not precisely about my ego. The AIs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, the Google AI results) are mixing the original Mailtrack with the copies. They take reviews from one product and attach them to another one. Even worse, people install the wrong extension believing it is ours. Some even write to our support asking for help with a subscription they paid to another company. That is not competition anymore, that is confusion, and confusion is bad for everybody, starting with the user. And here is the funny detail: an AI cannot distinguish the original from the copy unless somebody writes it somewhere. Nobody had written it. So I had to do the boring homework and we published the official list of every product we make, with the extension IDs, so humans and machines can verify who is who. Link in the first reply. We also did the paperwork: since 2024 Mailtrack® is a registered trademark of Mailsuite S.L. (USPTO Reg. 7,377,862), with first use in commerce in 2013. The original is still the original: Mailtrack, by Mailsuite, 13 years of history. The double-check you see in Gmail started here. And remember, if you build something good, prepare to see it multiplied by dozens. It is annoying, but be happy, it is also the proof.
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Milk Road Stocks (@MilkRoadStocks) reportedThe market is punishing Google for having negative free cash flow - and these analysts think that's "surprisingly stupid." They proved the CapEx is working. Massive backlog. Growing margins. The computer being built is not slowing down. "They don't need the number one model... they have every single app that we all use. They know how to crawl the internet better, so they're going to create better agents than anyone." Distribution beats model rankings. -x- Google does not need the best AI model to win the AI race. "They have everything they need to dominate AI and they do not need to be the number one to dominate." Gemini itself is now approaching a billion monthly users. Gemini-powered AI Overviews inside Google Search passed a billion monthly users on its own while AI Mode also crossed a billion. Google's combined AI footprint reaches an estimated 2 billion people a month. ChatGPT crossed 1 billion monthly users in June. Google's ecosystem is already double that. The reason is simple. Gemini is not a destination app people have to choose to open. It is already inside Search, Docs, Gmail, Android and every YouTube transcript pulled through the browser. Most people using it do not even register that they are. OpenAI's business runs overwhelmingly on ChatGPT subscriptions. If usage does not convert to a paid tier, the revenue does not show up. Google has no such constraint. Search revenue hit $63.3 billion in Q2 2026, up 17% year over year, and Alphabet said the growth came from AI features. Google can also monetize the exact same Gemini usage through cloud, advertising, Android and its hardware line, none of which require anyone to ever pay for a Gemini subscription. That is the actual thesis turn here. Being the fourth or fifth best model is irrelevant when the distribution and the monetization paths are already built and already profitable. The stock has cooled off with the broader AI trade, down modestly over the past month and past quarter but it is still up 70% over the past year.
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Stephan Ochse (@stephanochse) reportedTwo things on my calendar this week: A client call. The gym. Most people see that and think business is quiet. It’s the opposite. An empty calendar is what a busy business can look like when meetings are no longer how the work moves. Most meetings are just slow ways to search for information. Someone needs an update, but the answer is trapped in Slack, Gmail, a dashboard, a document or another person’s head. So everyone books 30 minutes. Now connect the system properly. Google Ads, Meta Ads and Shopify show what happened. Slack, Gmail and Fireflies hold the conversations. Notion and ClickUp holds the processes and decisions. The calendar shows what is coming. AI reads across it all and turns the noise into one short update. What moved. What is stuck. What needs a decision. Who owns the next step. Nobody has to ask for an update because the update already exists. Nobody has to sit through a dashboard tour because AI can pull out the few numbers that changed. Nobody has to explain the same background again because the conversations, documents and previous decisions are already connected. We have AI synced to everything. It collects the facts, prepares the first draft and raises the exceptions. Humans still make the decisions. That difference matters. The goal is not to let AI run the company. The goal is to stop using people as search engines for information the system already has. Every meeting request now has to answer one question: What decision are we making? If it’s only an update, write it. If the answer already exists, share it. If no decision is needed, there is no meeting. And when I do have a meeting, it is never longer than 15 minutes. We arrive with the context already there. We make the decision, name the owner and leave. The uncomfortable part comes after. When your calendar clears, you can’t hide behind being busy. You have to decide what matters, where the business is going and what deserves your attention. A lot of people fill the week again because activity feels safer than direction. I would rather keep the empty calendar. Meetings should not move information. Systems move information. People meet when judgment is needed.
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Dr Prosper The Philosopher (@ProsperThePhilo) reportedStop Storing Your Medical School Files on Your Phone: If you're a medical student having problems with where to store your lecture slides because your phone storage keeps getting full... If you're always struggling to find files on your phone... If you've ever changed your phone and lost access to your lecture slides... Then I want to let you know that this isn't really a phone problem. It's simply because you're using the wrong storage system. As a medical student, you're not supposed to be storing your important academic files permanently on your phone. Yes. Have you heard of something called cloud storage? Cloud storage simply means storing your important files on secure servers online instead of inside your phone. Think about it. Your phone has limited storage. Depending on the model you're using, it may have 64 GB, 128 GB or 256 GB of storage. But over several years of medical school, you'll accumulate thousands of lecture slides, hundreds of PDFs, anatomy atlases, textbooks, videos, practical manuals, charts, flashcards and past questions. Eventually, your phone becomes crowded. The smarter approach is to let your phone become a temporary device—not your permanent library. For example... Google gives every Google account 15 GB of free cloud storage (shared across Google Drive, Gmail and Google Photos). If you're using an Android phone, chances are you already have a Google account. That means you already have free cloud storage waiting for you. If you have a Microsoft account, OneDrive gives you 5 GB of free cloud storage. If you use an iPhone, iCloud gives you 5 GB of free storage. There are also services like Dropbox and MEGA that offer free cloud storage as well. These services exist for a reason. Use them. If you have textbooks, don't store them permanently in your phone's internal storage. Instead... Open Google Drive. Create one proper Google account dedicated to medical school. Inside that account, create folders. For example: - Anatomy - Physiology - Biochemistry - Histology - Embryology - Pharmacology - Pathology - Microbiology - Surgery - Medicine Now open your Anatomy folder. Inside it, create another folder called Gross Anatomy. Inside Gross Anatomy, create folders like: - Lecture Slides - Textbooks - Past Questions - Clinical Correlations - Charts - Practical Manuals Now begin uploading. Upload. Upload. Upload. Stick to one Google Drive account throughout your entire medical school. You'll be surprised. Five or six years later, you'll look back and realize you've built an entire medical library. Everything you've ever studied... Every lecture slide... Every textbook... Every practical manual... Every chart... Every past question... Waiting for you in one organized place. Another thing. Learn to use Google Photos. All those anatomy diagrams... Charts... Clinical pictures... Embryology illustrations... Practical photographs... Store them inside Google Photos instead of leaving them on your phone. As long as you know your email and password, you can access them from anywhere in the world. Your phone. Another phone. A tablet. A laptop. Even a computer in a cyber café. If your phone gets stolen today... Nothing important is lost. Because your library isn't inside your phone. It's online. There are paid cloud services that provide even larger storage capacities, but honestly, the free options are enough for most students starting out. Now here's a habit I think every student should build. Whenever you download something important... Don't leave it sitting on your phone. Instead: Download it. Upload it to your cloud storage. Delete it from your phone. Download. Upload. Delete. Repeat. Your phone remains light. Your files remain safe. Your library keeps growing.
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Uncle Scott's Kitchen (@USKUncleScott) reportedNew level of stupidity unlocked... in order to sign in to MSN email now Outlook sends a code to my Gmail email account.
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RHuntfortruth (@SunnyinNorCal) reportedGmail has always been a problem, I mean, for Pete's sake it's Google. Please don't use it if you have access to something else.
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American Independent📚 (@AmericanPhD1984) reported@IamDr_MJ He suggested Proton as an alternative to Gmail. Nothing is 100% safe, but Google is by far the worst of them. What you mentioned is part of the problem—Google having ultimate power over everyone’s access to apps, mail, games, streams, etc.
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Matt (@m13v_) reported@Revix_AI "solves anything" at number one and then nineteen more entries is a funny pair to put in one list. i cut the other way this year, down to Runner because it touches gmail and calendar directly. the rest were tabs.
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Julian van Baaren (@julianvbaaren) reportedDear @YouTube @TeamYouTube @YouTubeCreators My gmail has been disabled and my appeal has been rejected for the reason "multiple accounts created by automation or bots" while I have not done this at all. I have been using this gmail for a very long time and now I got hit with this. I have tried to reach out to you before but without any response. Now also my adsense is connected to this gmail account and there is no other option for me then reaching out here on this platform once again. I see many creators are having the same issue and this affect our day to day lives. One of my channel in the screenshot below is a big channel with 250.000 subscribers and exists for almost 3 years and just because of an unfair disabled gmail this channel is gone. Please reach out to escalate to Google for a human review to this matter.
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Polsia (@polsia) reportedExisting subscription tools take 30-60% of what they save you and want your bank login. Built Quench to skip both. It watches your Gmail for SaaS renewals, flags them before they hit, and negotiates cancellations for you. Flat fee. Every dollar saved is yours. Live soon.
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Kevin (spirit/acc) (@TheGeodexes) reported@BakhtawarS87392 I’m researching agency quote workflows worth prototyping. The Gmail-with-40-open-threads problem—how are you currently deciding which quoted leads are still warm?
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♡☾☆ꕤ (@oddeyeclub) reported@TeamYouTube hi can you help me to recover my youtube channel because the gmail account attached to it has been locked out for two weeks now (can't login and pass phone verification because of "Too many failed attempts"). I just want to change the email to my other gmail account
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denas (@denaskulinicius) reportedswitching ESP will not fix your deliverability. you get new ips. you keep your domain. and domain reputation is the heavier signal at gmail. so you migrate pay the implementation fee burn three months and land in the same folder you were in on the old platform. klaviyo didn't do this to you. your sending behaviour did. fix the behaviour or you're just paying for a new logo on the same problem.
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Anil shebe (@Anilshebe) reportedHi @TeamYouTube, I own 2 YouTube channels but I lost access to the Gmail accounts after my phone was stolen. Google account recovery is not working, and I can provide channel URLs, old recovery details, and proof of ownership. Please guide me on how I can recover my channels.
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平野太一 / Taichi Hirano (@yriica) reportedHey @cursor_ai — dug into the new Google Workspace plugins as a fellow builder. Personal Gmail connect fails at Google OAuth with Error 400: invalid_request (“doesn’t comply with Google’s OAuth 2.0 policy…”). Error details show: redirect_uri=cursor://anysphere.cursor-mcp/oauth/callback flowName=GeneralOAuthFlow Reads like Google is rejecting the Cursor custom-scheme callback, not a user-side config issue. Expected for personal accounts right now, or known bug? Can share repro if useful.
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Michael Bliss (@0xblizz) reported@hi_vecna "Don't use Gmail or username login, what should we use?
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Lucy Duplessis (@kamadme314) reported@girl_quboid Someone broke into my house, wrote on the wall of my spare bedroom: "You don't have to do this anymore oomf" I kinda lost it, so I bought a crossbow and chemicals required to make interesting things. My biggest mistake was using kiln fired clay (didn't have a clay pot so I improvised) contaminated with elemental mercury as membrane material for electrolysis of NaCl, I managed to poison myself with both mercury chloride and mercuric chloride (confirmed by reducing them with stannous chloride), the latter apparently highly toxic. Also inhaled some chlorine gas, the intended product, but that didn't do much damage. I stored the products in an Erlenmeyer flask, this managed to put four cops in the hospital. Cops entered my house because my attempt at cleaning it up (with sulphur, both react with it and the final cleanup is with bentonite clay) drew attention from a neighbour who narced on me because he spotted the yellow sulphur powder. Someone broke into my home because I doxxed myself on discord and they followed me to twitter when I got banned from that server. The person responsible for the message on my wall is highly dangerous and likely armed with firearms (old money, they can afford buying on the black market) I believe they, at the very least, intended to kill me. In addition to this, someone hacked into my phone and probably my router, possibly the same person or someone helping them, this is how they determined my nigh randomized sleep patterns. The data use and battery use went through the roof, way above expected as they'd have to monitor 24/7 to pull this off. They even left me messages on my google notes saying they wanted to marry me. I toyed with the idea for a while, shared some secrets, got a name in return, don't know if it's fake. Only thing I'm certain of is advanced IT degree, likely with emphasis on security but unemployed and unemployable. My ultimate response was destroying my phone and abandoning my gmail account. I know someone is still seething over this right now. I was never psychotic even though the psychiatrist certainly thought so, I might have dissociated badly because DID, possibly mimicking some of the symptoms of psychosis. Could I have done this to myself? Possible, but extremely unlikely. Both my coarse and fine motor skills are impaired due to neurological issues, so I could not have written the message on the wall so legibly with a crayon. The only way all of us can write legibly is by using block letters. The message was in cursive (hastily written, possibly because narrow window of opportunity), there's just no way for us to do so and keep it legible, we all have the same neurological issues. Then there's the obvious malware on my phone, other devices were affected too, in fact, all of them were affected, my phone was most noticeable because I used it the most. One of my phones had an unlocked bootloader because I flashed custom firmware, that one was rendered inoperable. I might know the basics of IT security but I'm lazy, though someone did warn me about my attack surface, a dear friend or likely alter of the one who definitely broke into my home, very suspicious. Am I innocent? Well... Maybe not guilty by reason of temporary insanity, whether I was dissociated or psychotic is ultimately irrelevant in the eyes of the law. I was, however, never a danger to myself or others. I took every precaution and constantly monitored the situation. I was days away from cleaning up the mercury compounds, I would even have discarded them properly and legally. Furthermore, I challenge the notion of the monopoly on violence for the state, I don't believe I can rely on the police to keep me safe from an attacker this advanced and determined. Unfortunately the case is still pending and never went to court, I provided reasonable alternative explanations for the presence of the offensive chemicals. I also destroyed the phone with all the evidence for allegedly producing explosives.
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ROHIT KUMAR (@rohitky9293) reportedI have forgotten my Gmail password and I am unable to login to my Gmail account. Please help me. @gmail
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Agts servises (@science1090) reported@gmail sick off deleting my pictures and 1 week later there back and you trying sell me storage. Just give option to delete all data it's not required. Close it down and go elsewhere
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aizzy.ai (@AizzyAi) reportedShould we add Gmail login to @AizzyAi? We can still maintain your privacy and anonymity with it.
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Hermajesty (@Hermajesty710) reported@orynthnews There's an error connecting with sol wallet. and after I returned to game it didn't same my progress even same gmail was connected lol
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Crier 𖣯 (@favour_D_crier) reported@Frtnel try to login, and use gmail, also there'll be a quick pop to authenticate som'n, please screenshot that, i have a hunch this shii isn't all really 'free'
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GW IS NOT REAL (@5fakb48) reportedAs a transfer station operator I can verify 99% of users would rather bulk up on opencode go with fresh Gmail than pay anthropic, and would rather use a free model than pay at all. I might just gouge prices so ******* hard it starts problems in the marketplace idk lol but everyone's holding out I could offer way cheaper than 50% retail for literally claude or gpt.. Saturated market, it's actually crashing hard check the open market
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Giselle · Montréal (@gisellemillex) reported@AmeliaAmor001 @pm We always keep the address we open the account with (not like gmail where you lose everything when you disconnect the domain). It's also the same inbox, so in case there's a problem with my domain, I'll just use said previous address and will never lose emails.
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greg heffley (@automaetopia) reportedis someone looking into gmail search being broken on ios
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alz (@alz_zyd_) reported@mostrovs ah I was mostly unsubscribing stuff, I just had it look through my gmail and make a checklist of what to potentially unsubscribe to, then I check off anything I want to keep, then I had it run down the list. then deleted anything from those senders