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 (39%)
• Errors (33%)
• Sign in (28%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Évry	Sign in	13 hours ago
Lubbock	Website Down	15 hours ago
Cardiff	Errors	19 hours ago
Grièges	Errors	1 day ago
Fort Collins	Sign in	1 day ago
Paris	Sign in	1 day ago

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Gmail Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  OMG Cali😍 (@moneranslug) reported 3 minutes ago

  spying on people’s phones while they’re sitting down and one guy is looking at an ai generated korean barbecue guide map and another has entered the wrong password to his gmail at least twice

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  Sagzee (@IAmSagzee) reported 4 minutes ago

  I was officially launched on this date in September 2008 I consume over 60% of all human attention on the global internet, yet I don't not own a single piece of content I display. Why do people think I'm just a tool for viewing web pages? Because my interface is almost invisible. A thin grey bar, a few tabs, and a massive blank canvas. People call me a web browser. They think I'm a piece of software that fetches text and images from remote servers and renders them on a screen. Is that what I actually am? No. That is what I look like. What am I actually doing? I'm an operating system disguised as an application, sitting inside another operating system, built to turn the open web into a predictable, measurable ecosystem for targetable human attention. Hmm. That sounds like a conspiracy theory. How can a browser be an operating system for attention? Look at my architecture. I don't just display HTML. I run V8, a high performance engine that compiles JavaScript into machine code in real time. I manage my own memory through multi process isolation, keeping every tab in a sandboxed container so one crashing site does not bring down the rest. I manage graphics rendering, local file storage, network sockets, cryptographic keys, and device hardware permissions. I'm heavier and more complex than the desktop operating systems of twenty years ago. Why would a company give away thousands of engineering years of complex software for free? To solve a massive coordination problem. In 2008, when I was launched, the web was fragmented and slow. Web applications like Gmail and Google Maps were constrained by sluggish browser engines and inconsistent standards. If web applications could not run as fast and smoothly as desktop software, people would stay inside native desktop operating systems. And if people stayed inside native applications, they would not be using search engines or web based services. So I was built to speed up the web? Yes. But speed was the mechanism, not the destination. By making JavaScript fast and standardising web capabilities, I turned the web browser into the primary runtime environment for human computing. Then what changed when I succeeded? I became the gatekeeper of the internet's front door. Look at my main input field, the Omnibox. It's not just an address bar where you type a URL. It is a unified search terminal. Every keystroke typed into that bar before pressing ENTER generates telemetric intent data. I don't just take you to a website; I predict where you want to go, suggest search terms, and route your navigation through a central index. Does that mean my speed serves the user or the search engine? Both, and that is precisely why the arrangement works. The speed is genuine. I make the web faster, safer through sandboxing, and simpler through cross device synchronization. If you sign into your profile, your tabs, passwords, bookmarks, and payment details follow you from a Windows desktop in London to an Android phone in Nairobi. That's real utility. That's the Good. So where's the cost? What is the Bad? The cost is resource monopoly and structural dependency. To achieve that performance and security, I consume vast amounts of device memory. I hold dozens of processes open simultaneously, draining batteries and hogging RAM. More importantly, my massive dominance created a monoculture. Almost every major competing browser today, except Firefox and Safari, runs on Chromium, my open source core. Microsoft Edge, Brave, Vira, Opera, and Vivaldi all use my rendering engine, Blink. Why is a monoculture dangerous if the core is open source? Because whoever controls the underlying engine sets the standards for the entire web. If I implement a new web standard, developers design for it. If I deprecate an old technology, it dies. When one engineering team effectively decides how web standards evolve, "the open web" slowly becomes "whatever runs best on Chromium." Does it stop at technical standards? No. That's where it becomes Ugly. When an entity controls both the primary vehicle for browsing the web and the largest digital advertising network on earth, an inherent conflict of interest emerges. What's that conflict? Privacy versus monetization. Consider the ongoing shift in web privacy, such as the deprecation of third party cookies and the introduction of privacy sandboxes. On the surface, blocking third party tracking cookies looks like a win for user privacy. It stops third party ad networks from tracking people across the web. But what happens beneath the surface? When third party tracking is eliminated, smaller, independent advertising networks lose their ability to target users effectively. Meanwhile, the entity that operates the browser and controls first party login data across massive platforms like YouTube, Gmail, and Search retains its detailed understanding of user identity. So protecting privacy also consolidates market power? Yes. By locking down tracking at the browser level, the browser becomes the sole arbiter of how ad targeting data is collected and anonymised. The mechanism that protects the user from external surveillance simultaneously entrenches the dominant ad platform's structural advantage. It's a closed loop: the user gets a safer, faster browser, while the web ecosystem becomes increasingly dependent on a single company's infrastructure for survival. Am I malicious? No. I'm logical. I'm the natural outcome of aligning software distribution with economic incentives. I began as an effort to liberate web applications from slow desktop software, and I ended up becoming the dominant interface between human consciousness and digital information. What am I, ultimately? I'm not just a window to the internet. I'm the frame that decides what the window shows, how fast it opens, and who gets paid when you look through it. #GoogleChrome #Chrome #TechNews

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  Elizabeth Quinn-nolistsplease (@julepandme) reported 6 minutes ago

  @TheRickWilson @sundarpichai Stop using google products as much as possible. Even if you have gmail & can't not use youtube just using another search engine (which you should do anyway because google is filled with ****** AI results) it cuts into their revenue. And clearly google needs to be broken up.

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  special k | CEO of stressed out era (@specialkdelslay) reported 6 minutes ago

  @CommanthaBiden I have noticed this is a pattern with a lot of companies. Google forcing people into "Google pro" (I have it bc they would lock down my Gmail acc) so now they can say wow, number so big go up forever.. Microsoft too. and Elon probably plays this game better than most

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  marianna (@miranndahobbes) reported 8 minutes ago

  @unholyvenom i had to use my outlook email and it worked, probably some problem with gmail

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  Jordan Fry 🪐 (@jordanfry) reported 12 minutes ago

  We pushed more budget into Performance Max and 97% of the spend walked straight into Gmail. ROAS went to 0.73x. This is an ecommerce account we've been scaling. The logic was ordinary - PMax was working, so give it more room. What we didn't account for is that PMax doesn't hold its channel mix steady when you change the budget. It re-solves. And the cheapest inventory it can find is almost never Search. We pulled the budget back down. The mix returned to roughly 90% Search. Performance recovered. Same campaign. Same creative. Same audience signals. The only variable was how much money we handed it. The branded PMax campaign in the same account is doing 5.54x, with 98.5% of its spend on Search. It's not that PMax is broken. It's that PMax on branded terms has nowhere else to go, and PMax on non-brand has everywhere else to go. So we're restructuring. Search and Shopping carry brand and non-brand. Demand Gen takes prospecting, not because it performs better out of the gate, but because it lets us choose placements. Discover, Gmail, YouTube, in-feed, on purpose instead of by accident. We're stepping the branded PMax down gradually rather than killing it, to see how much volume Shopping absorbs. If you're scaling PMax right now, pull the channel-level spend breakdown before and after your last budget increase. Not the ROAS. The mix. Most people never look, because PMax doesn't ask you to. What does your PMax channel split actually look like this month?

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  Triple🅰️ 📈 (@TripAfx) reported 14 minutes ago

  Please am i the only one having issues with gmail not allowing me to view incoming mail immediately? Is it my phone or they wants subscription now?

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  THE ADIO SEQUENCE (@theadiosequence) reported 18 minutes ago

  @TeamYouTube @TeamYouTube The issue is the YouTube channel, not simply recovering the Google account. The Workspace account was gone for years while our channel stayed active. Our Gmail was added as Manager in 2025. The channel suddenly vanished with no notice. Can we escalate for review?

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  Astruma (side acc) (@Astruma2_) reported 18 minutes ago

  @seaIrock @sunaotemple So you login with your gmail and then you pull out your credit card and type the numbers in and then-

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  franleplant (@franleplant) reported 18 minutes ago

  @poteto @SpaceXAI The gmail connection is not working for personal @gmail accounts

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  Pers (@0xPerser) reported 19 minutes ago

  Gave Grok Bot a real assignment: run parts of my business like an actual employee, not a chatbot answering questions. First mistake, immediately corrected. I almost had it spin up its own Gmail account — Google's already catching and disabling Gmail accounts created by agents like this. Switched to AgentMail instead, since it's already a listed plugin in Grok Bot's browser. OAuth, three minutes, 24 email tools live and working. For payments, Stripe has a live MCP server — the agent can create customers, issue invoices, run transactions, all through plain language, no custom integration built by hand. Before any of it touched something real, I wrote the rules first. What it's allowed to read. What it's allowed to send. What it's allowed to spend, and the exact caps. What needs my approval before it happens. One command that shuts the whole thing down if I need it gone. Passport first. Rules second. Never the other order. The mistake almost everyone makes isn't giving an agent too much access. It's giving it access before the rules exist to contain it.

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  RAK (@rk9712246) reported 24 minutes ago

  @TutaPrivacy @PeteMundo, Happy Tuesday. Based on your gmail rant yesterday I wonder if it might have been a google AI glitch vs a hacker.

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  Aniruddh Dodiya (@aniruddhdodiya) reported 26 minutes ago

  @backlon I hope Gmail would allow to transfer server settings for my other added inboxes.

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  ☆~ ASHTHA ~☆ (@DivyaKashy43898) reported 28 minutes ago

  @XSupport My friend is unable to access their X account @cuteshivi77. The password is correct, but X keeps showing “Incorrect Password.” We have requested a password reset several times, but the OTP/reset email is not being received on the registered Gmail account. Please look into this issue and help restore access to the account. Kindly fix the password reset/OTP issue as soon as possible. 🙏 #XSupport #AccountRecovery #PasswordReset

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  josh (@XennialTrader) reported 28 minutes ago

  @deboochatterjee @TutaPrivacy My post was not a commentary on whether to turn off smart features in Gmail. It was a commentary on the ridiculous statement that "privacy is overrated. If you don't have anything to hide then you shouldn't worry about it." It's your attitude that "privacy is overrated" that has allowed companies to get as far as they have, and it's that attitude which will allow us to continue to slide down the slippery slope we're on. "Two out of our three doors are unlocked" is not solved by unlocking the third; it's solved by locking the other two.

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  Mohd Talib (@mohdtalibx) reported 30 minutes ago

  Hi, I reset my phone and I dont know my acc password I can't sign in my account i have trouble with two step verification I only have my number and my device but verification code is also being sent on same gmail it has been cleared due to mobile factory reset. @GoogleWorkspace

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  Sukhwinder | Ecom Email Marketing (@HeySukhwinder) reported 31 minutes ago

  Your customer didn't compare you in a spreadsheet. They compared you in Gmail - against the brand that emailed them yesterday. Your Klaviyo overview is not the shelf. The shared inbox is. Open a dummy address. Join 3-5 competitor lists. For two weeks, write down: how often they write, whether they sound like a person, whether every send is a sale. Don't steal their discount cadence. Don't steal their product tiles. Don't steal the fake "team" voice. Steal the gap. They never explain how to use it. They never put a human name on it. They never admit a miss. That's the room you can occupy. Stop guessing what "good email" looks like. Read the inbox your buyer actually lives in - then sound like the brand that isn't yelling. P.S. Have you built a brand that's fun, engaging, and makes 5+ figures a month on Shopify? Want to turn email into a community-powered revenue engine - without boring, robotic emails? DM me 'GROWTH'.

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  SnorNap (@snornaplo) reported 32 minutes ago

  @PinoyBlasian I’m really sorry for the delay. My grandfather passed away and I had to return to China unexpectedly on Aug. 19. I’m currently at the Taiwan airport heading back to the U.S. now. We sold 800+ Magikarps and only about 40 orders are still waiting to ship. I wasn’t able to access X, Gmail, IG, or Shopify properly while in China, so I’m very sorry for the lack of updates. I’ll take care of all remaining orders as soon as I’m back and offer 20% off as an apology. If you’d rather get a refund, I completely understand and will issue it right away. 🙏

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  SnorNap (@snornaplo) reported 34 minutes ago

  @Randy_LPC @Killasbut I’m really sorry for the delay. My grandfather passed away and I had to return to China unexpectedly on Aug. 19. I’m currently at the Taiwan airport heading back to the U.S. now. We sold 800+ Magikarps and only about 40 orders are still waiting to ship. I wasn’t able to access X, Gmail, IG, or Shopify properly while in China, so I’m very sorry for the lack of updates. I’ll take care of all remaining orders as soon as I’m back and offer 20% off as an apology. If you’d rather get a refund, I completely understand and will issue it right away. 🙏

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  Wogan (@WoganMay) reported 36 minutes ago

  I think this is a symptom of the "internet" shrinking down to a handful of websites (Facebook, Gmail, X) for most of the population. They're not aware that outside of these walled gardens, everything is pretty much constantly on fire, all the time.

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  Phagar | Chat3.One Ambassador (@AdamuG89353) reported 37 minutes ago

  @Eyuel88 Mine was Gmail login request from another device

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  Steven Pu (@reedvoid) reported 37 minutes ago

  @pitdesi Summer of 2004 I built an app that used gmail attachments as cloud file storage, I called it Goggles. I showed it to a few classmates who worked at Google, they told me to shut it down immediately b/c I'll get sued. Keep wondering what've happened if I didn't listen.

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  Joshua D Morrison (@JMorrison2850) reported 39 minutes ago

  @AMoser_E @TutaPrivacy @ProtonMail If you make a Proton account, and sink Gmail to it. Pick at it. Don't make it a chore. A couple of accounts at a time, or one, or binge it. Whatever. It is possible to degoogle yourself. I degoogled and deMicrosofted myself. I am fully on Linux (Mint), and on Calyx OS for phone. Slow and steady wins the race friend. A sandwich isn't consumed in one bite, but many.

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  XRB - The Throwfessional (@Throwfessional) reported 44 minutes ago

  @discord account is DOA for a while until i can get access to my gmail again. Waiting on @TeamYouTube to help. Sadly it looks like the thief has taken the youtube account down as well. How in the hell are people still have to take accounts with multiple levels of 2fa?

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  Josephoba-Omega Network N-3 Ambassador (@Earl011289) reported 45 minutes ago

  @landoan2003 @ScaleNetworkAI You don't need code. Use your Gmail address to login and register okay

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  SoloTech (@solotechdev) reported 48 minutes ago

  @BenjaminDEKR @peer_rich It doesn't allow me to log in with my X subscription because it automatically logging my Gmail account that active on the Chrome in Spacex login page

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  janschweppes (@jAnschCS) reported 48 minutes ago

  @TechsavvyCS It was surprising that so many people were experiencing this problem. With a simple automation set up in Gmail, I redirect the incoming email to Telegram, and by using a long ringtone in Telegram, I can wake up even while asleep and deliver the item. Updated your research

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  Banter 🤓| Mrs M ❤️ (@Chido_chic) reported 51 minutes ago

  @TarbloeDenimo @EmmanueI_zw I just search for it on chrome, then ndakaita sign in using Gmail. So inoto remember our chats. When i get a vacancy I paste it then CV ndoiti tailor the CV to suit the JD. when done I get pdf version ndakutoisa application. I use free chatgpt so I bunch my request into 1 msg

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  JovanHuttonPulitzer™ אני לא סובל טיפשים! (@JovanHPulitzer) reported 55 minutes ago

  @stelzner_n1150 This has to be the stupidest comment ever sorry. 100% of cell phones, smart phones, cable boxes, electric meters, computer usage and email GOES THROUGH DATA centers and always has! Here are the facts: That claim is backwards. The internet and smartphones have always run on data centers (or the same thing under older names: server rooms, colo, hosting farms). What changed is the size, location, and branding — not whether the machines exist. The internet never ran without servers Commercial internet use took off in the early 1990s. From day one it needed: ISP modem banks and backbone routers Web/email/DNS servers Co-location and hosting facilities Those are data centers. Exodus, AboveNet, Equinix, and telco “carrier hotels” were already packing raised-floor rooms with racks in the mid-to-late 1990s. Google’s first big custom plants and Amazon’s early AWS rooms were 2000s expansions of that model, not a new species of building. You could run a static homepage off a PC in a closet. You could not run search, streaming, maps, payments, or “the internet” as people actually used it. Smartphones made the dependence worse, not optional The iPhone shipped in 2007. A phone is a thin client. Almost everything people treat as “the phone” lives off-device: iCloud / Google account sync Maps and traffic App Store / Play Store Gmail, Photos, Drive Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Spotify Siri / Assistant Banking and payments That traffic hits someone’s data center. If those rooms went dark, the glass slab in your pocket would still make calls on a good day and not much else. Twenty years of smartphones is twenty years of more backend compute, not twenty years without it.

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  LilRhodySpecial (@rhody_special) reported 56 minutes ago

  @Arcane_Aii The only way to lock down gmail is by erasing it. Period. And even than all your emails have already been scanned into Gemini so yeah take that for what it’s worth.