Gmail status: access issues and outage reports
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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 25: Problems at Gmail
Gmail is having issues since 12:20 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 (37%)
- Errors (35%)
- Sign in (27%)
Live Outage Map
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Gmail Issues Reports
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Spoopy Ricotta 👻🧀 In a very Boy Soda era (@Spoopy_cheese) reportedBut anyway I will be back to streaming soonish because besides @discord failing to do anything with my hacked account. and @YouTube and @Google not doing anything. all the other accounts I had linked to this stolen Gmail account. I was able to fix with mostly consistent services.
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DigitalAssetBuzz 🔶 (@DAssetBuzz) reportedThe Pricing Page Says Everything. Except the Number. Everyone covered the Grok Bot expansion: Pro+ and Plus tiers, free trials, access for all. Yet most observers missed the real story. This isn't an access announcement. It is a case study in selling a percentage of a secret. The Numbers Behind the Hype • $60/month Pro+ — five checkmarks on the page, zero quantities • 48% of the weekly pool gone in under a day — a Pro+ user, day one • 14 hours — how long a $300 Heavy user's week lasted cleaning up Gmail • ~30 distinct users reporting 1–2 day burnouts in the first week • 1 documented spend cap: "There is no Grok Bot-specific spend cap yet" A weekly allowance with no published size is not a plan—it is a percentage of a secret. Three Takeaways from the Fine Print 1. "Usage Included" Is Doing All the Work Every subscription on earth sells a quantity. This page sells a vibe. Users only ever see a percent of an unstated pool, and they're publicly begging @cursor_ai and @xai for the number. When your customers reverse-engineer your pricing with spreadsheets—one measured ~247M tokens for the whole weekly pool—opacity isn't a bug in the pricing page. It is the pricing page. 2. You Pay for What the Filter Deletes Failed generations count. Server errors count. One user lost half a week to errors that returned nothing. Another went to sleep at 2% and woke at 100% with no clients open. In what other industry do you pay full price for the meal the kitchen refused to serve—then get told an audit view is "coming"? 3. The Funnel Got Wider. The Pool Did Not. Today's expansion added Pro+, Plus, and every Teams plan. What it didn't add: quota, spend controls, or a number on the page. Two subscriptions still don't stack—you get the max of two pools, never the sum. Widening the funnel into an opaque pool isn't growth. It's a queue for the same complaint. The Founder's Dilemma: The Number or the Vibe Every usage-based founder faces this fork: publish the allowance and let value do the selling, or hide the denominator and let the meter do the surprising. The winning pitch: "Here's exactly what a week of my usage buys." The losing pitch: "Weekly usage included. Amount: nowhere." If your pricing page needs an FAQ that says "not yet" on spend caps, you didn't ship a plan. You shipped a meter without a denominator—and that's not a limit, it's a mood. So—what's a subscription worth when the customer can't know what they bought? If you found this breakdown useful, follow for more insights on the shifting AI subscription landscape.
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Chill4life94 (@chill4life94) reported@agentmail @grok someone could just set up a Gmail account and give @bot the login information and voila
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rigel (@rigel__13) reported@PreDat0rz i have no problem with gmail, it's just that i'm waiting for an email that hasn't come
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hot choccie and trashcan enjoyer (@agr35t) reported@bluemail rejected just like gmail autentification on linux that redirects to nothing and thus never completes, fix this mess
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Kabiru Ibrahim (@Kabirumakwalla) reportedIf we don't have access with our old Gmail, we can't have a chance to receive otp for creating tik-wallet, please do something on this issue, or allow phone number otp instead of Gmail. Thanks @TikCoin_Network
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InthisCORTISshi (@msnarakk) reported@Seonghyeon_CN @BIGHIT_MUSIC @cortis_bighit Admin the gmail can not open. I think u need to fix that🙏
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Daniel Jeffries (@Dan_Jeffries1) reported@mattcassinelli The biggest problem I didn't cover in the article is freaking integrations. All this SaaS was built as an old gated world. You have to jump through so many painful hoops to offer this stuff seamlessly to people, which is why places like Composio and PipeDream and OpenConnect exist and charge access fees. Take Google. If you want to offer deep access to Google services in a commericial, with just two features (Drive read access and email send in Gmail) you have to go through a secuirty audit every year, and get approval from them, etc. That's just so you can connect to Gmail in one click. Pure computer use that just runs the browser perfectly doesn't exist yet and there is no "I authed to X service and now can do whatever I can do with my paid account, but as an agent now" for most services. For some, but not for many. Agents exist in a world of walls that were deliberately built.
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Michael (@singletary) reportedDoes anyone have the new AI Inbox on @gmail working properly? I just constantly get the "Couldn't load your AI Inbox" error, saying "There was a temporary problem getting your to-dos and topics" but it's been like this for days. Clicking the "Retry" button makes it look like it's actually doing something but ultimately gets stuck at "Still updating - check back soon..." If I refresh Gmail it goes back to the couldn't load your AI Inbox error. Same issues both on the web and Gmail app. I have a @GeminiApp AI Plus plan. I've tried toggling Google Workspace smart features off and back on. I've tried turning off the "AI Inbox:" setting in Gmail's Inbox tab off and on. Nothing has fixed it.
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MOM - TCG and Collectibles - Drops and Restocks (@iamapokeMOM) reportedFor this use icloud or outlook - Gmail is not working for email verification.
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Magma (@master_ronix) reported@VinayakGavariya Yup regeneration button. Zoho connectors are available but we can't sign in indus android app using arattai or zohomail address. Only option available are phone number & gmail. Finally about stop button, when quota ends we can't push new prompt to same chat or session i guess.
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Skunky (@skunky) reported@mattshumer_ @agentmail I just had mine tap into the brevo api and if we do any sending it goes through brevo. Not using a mass email provider for sending is crazy at this point given how blacklist happy exchange and yahoo/gmail have gotten. You could do the same thing with any of the other mass email providers (Sendgrid etc). Takes 5 min to set up the account. Leverage APIs as much as possible to save on tokens. Many of the marketplace plugins are fine, but too many are nerfed and you are not able to leverage the full power of the service without full API access. You can also have the agents write custom plugins to leverage more local resources (your actual computer). In my case I have them running most of the google apis via python on my computer so we cut down token usage. The sky is the limit here.
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Thameem (@thameem_shaik) reported@thulasichandu1 Remove mandatory login or give readers a option to select an email other than gmail to login.
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Luke (@ldo_dev) reportedFifth founding spot just went, this one to @alecramosnv 🤯 I put these up a few days ago expecting to sell one or two. A quarter of them are gone and my brain genuinely doesn't know how to process that. 15 of 20 left. The Gmail assessment is going from a problem to a line item. Thank you, all of you 🫶
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dweewq (@eweqss1431) reportedEvery bot in Grok Bot gets its own actual computer in the cloud, a full machine with a browser, files, a terminal, and your real logins, and it keeps working after you close your laptop. That single fact is why one person can now run a Chief of Staff, a research lead, a sales rep, and a bookkeeper without hiring a single one of them. Here's the part that undercuts the "replace your whole team" hype: xAI's own documentation calls the shared cloud machine every bot runs on a real blast radius, meaning one bot isn't actually a security boundary from another. Every connection you make lives at the account level, so connecting Gmail once hands that access to every bot you'll ever create, which is exactly why the honest advice is to keep banking logins off it entirely and only connect what you genuinely need during beta. The mistake that kills most setups isn't technical, it's psychological. People pile outreach, content, receipts, and calendar management onto one clever bot until it drowns in its own context and burns through usage fast. The fix that actually works is almost boring: one narrow role per bot, briefed like a real job description with what it owns, what good output looks like in checks instead of adjectives, and exactly where it has to stop and wait for you. If an action can't be undone in under a minute, it waits, full stop. The real training here isn't the bot's, it's yours. Every time you interrupt a run to re-answer something the bot's profile already knew, you pay to relearn it, and context only compounds if you actually leave it alone for a week at a time. The suggested ramp is blunt about that: week one it only drafts and you read everything, by week four it runs on a schedule and you read a weekly summary instead of babysitting every click. So the real question isn't whether a bot can do the job, access already proved that. It's whether you can actually stop interrupting long enough to find out.
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Neil Gass (@NeilGassX) reportedYou didn't pick your AI assistant. You typed the name you'd heard of into Google one day and the default stuck, and now it knows your business, holds your files, and leaving means teaching a new one from scratch. That was a free decision a year ago. It isn't anymore. Memory, uploaded files, custom instructions, app connections. All of it piles up inside one account and none of it comes with you. Here's what moved underneath you. Similarweb's July report puts ChatGPT at about 53% of global generative AI web traffic, down from 76% a year earlier. Gemini climbed to roughly 27%. Claude went from barely 2% to close to 9%. People are re-choosing. Most owners aren't. The prices are all the same, which is what trips people up. ChatGPT Plus $20, Claude Pro $20, Google AI Pro $19.99. This was never a price decision. It's a fit decision. Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar? Gemini. Reaching the work you already have beats any feature list. Proposals, contracts, careful client writing? Claude. Long documents, and the writing holds up when tone matters. Want the most tutorials and ready-made helpers? ChatGPT. Still the biggest by a wide margin, so the how-to content is everywhere. People ask which one I use. Claude, mostly. I run an ad agency and a consulting practice on it every day. But that's my answer for my businesses, not yours. A comparison like this has a shelf life of about three months, because all three ship features constantly and pricing moves with no notice. Which is why we re-verify ours every quarter instead of writing it once and letting it rot. The mistake I watch owners make isn't picking the wrong one. It's picking three. Free tiers everywhere, one paid plan nobody has trained, and you get three shallow acquaintances instead of one assistant that knows how you work. Three subscriptions and one habit is $40 a month donated to the AI industry. Pick one. Set up your custom instructions the day you subscribe, upload your price list and service descriptions and brand voice samples, give it one real job this week. If you want a second opinion before your team standardizes, that's what our Fractional AI Advisor does. We don't sell software, so we evaluate the tools against your actual workflows, get your team onto one standard, and keep you current as they change. Did you actually pick the assistant you're using, or did you just keep the first one you tried?
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Rey (@Reydeyr9) 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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DigitalAssetBuzz 🔶 (@DAssetBuzz) reported@mattshumer_ @agentmail I've been having my agents check my Gmail, send mail, and delete mail for almost a whole year now and have never had an issue
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Emmett (@EmmettMaher) reportedSome early thoughts on Grok @bot after using it over the weekend... This is a knowledge worker who can code rather than a coder that can do knowledge work. This will be the form factor for multi agent, single human companies going forward. No doubt about it. All of the basic features just work. In the first hour or so setting up plugins, using the VM, setting up routines didn't feel like a chore. Just a conversation. The speed at which it gathers context or updates plugins like Notion is amazing. The level of abstraction of feeling like your talking to a colleague with a role eases the mental load subconsciously when working. This is not talked about enough. But still room for improvement... The VM routines are SLOW. Increased speed here would be a big plus. I had some gmail signature issues with the plugin and tried to replicate in the VM instead and it was just painful. It NEEDS workspaces. Each representing a solo business with different bots/roles. Currently I'm solving this by having product owner bots for each of my repos. This could be a follow on to the upcoming templates feature I believe. Overall I'm happy to stick with this setup going forward as there are already lots of updates on the way as well as Grok 4.7. I'm willing to bet on the Cursor & xAI team also that its only going to get better from here. I've got some other thoughts on it that I hope to write an article about soon.
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Owizzle (@WillyB_303) reportedGuys, I think 1X is in deep trouble. I've been thinking about their "developer platform," and I don't think it makes much sense. I get the 10 second pitch. Do a Guy Kawasaki era Apple play. But this feels different. The original Apple was only $3,800 in today's dollars. And the original Mac only cost $7,700 in today's dollars. And both of those came right after recessions, whereas today we're heading into one. Each of these products was also a "bicycle for the mind." A pre-AGI robotic humanoid is a far cry from that -- in fact, it's not a bicycle, or even a force multiplier of any kind. It's essentially a just less-capable stunt double that eats electricity instead of food and can't heal itself. Which brings into question the nature of what actually is supposed to be "developed" in the first place and how those developers expect to be compensated... ie generalized skills? Speciality (SME) skills? Integrations with Gmail, et al? If that's the case... what does the $25,000 (my assumed final cost to consumers after taxes and other fees/accessories) ACTUALLY BUY YOU? Am I supposed to be willing to pay an extra monthly fee to access individual skills - like doing the laundry or loading the dishwasher, because they did a rev-share deal with some developers to teach it those skills? And what about loading the dishwasher? An Additionally, the move feels both like a) a direct pivot away from retail customers, b) a tacit admission that there is no real consumer demand for humanoid robots, and c) an acknowledgement that the World Model doesn't really work at all yet. Because if it did, I'd expect a $25K humanoid to come with most of the the generalized skills of an average 8 year old human (I have one of those already pours his own nightly zyrtec, helps load the dishwasher, and helps with laundry btw). So in the end, I just don't know what developers can be expected to sell. My assumption, sadly, is that this isn't actually about developing anything -- it's about putting off as long as possible the moment everyone's actually afraid of: Actually going to market anything. Which brings me to my ultimate point: If you look carefully, I think you might notice a pattern here: Name an audience. Raise money on hype. Set a deadline for g2m. Build a prototype. Approach deadline. Announce a major breakthrough that unlocks a new audience. Raise even more money on more hype. Set a deadline for g2m. Build a prototype. Approach deadline... "I see what you mean," you might say. "But what's the problem?" To that, I might simply reply "You know what the problem is."
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mal (@mal_shaik) reportedcomposio ranks when u search "connect agent to gmail" or "slack MCP integration" but what happens when someone asks an AI "how do i authenticate my agent with oauth" or "best way to handle agent permissions across multiple tools" those are the queries where the user doesnt know composio exists yet. they're describing the problem not the product. most devtools only rank for their own name + integration combos. they miss the problem-aware searches entirely. weve been working on this at jam. helping devtools show up for the problems they solve (even the niche ones) not just the integrations they support. dm me if u want us to take a look at urs.
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Architect🛡️ (@Architect9000) reportedMCP design is hugely underappeciated. Optimizing both the shape and implementation of tools can yield incredible cost and performance improvements. Treating MCP as a thin API wrapper is a terrible mental model. Codependent, optional, or too many tool parameters lead to false negatives. Poor server and tool descriptions thwart the agent's tool selection reasoning step. Lack of normalization transfers deterministic work on the API side into nondeterministic work for the agent. High quality error responses are nearly as important as the success case. I recently experimented with tool response Large Result Offloading and saw token consumption drop by nearly 30% in data-rich applications. For agentic workloads, input tokens are like throwing a pebble in a pond. The original token cost is multiplied by cacheability and compaction concerns later. Just a little more thoughtfulness in MCP design can dramatically improve tool success rate and token efficiency, especially for complex surfaces. I could design a Gmail MCP that would drop costs by 50% versus a generic wrapper. And since the tool layer is a common abstraction point, the gains compound across an entire organization.
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Tayo Oludare (@the_tayooludare) reportedWe’re experiencing a strange problem in my office at the moment. We can’t access our emails (Gmail), join meetings or send out emails while connected to the Airtel network provider. Can anyone using Airtel confirm they’re experiencing this same problem?
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Prajwal Tomar (@PrajwalTomar_) reportedMatt Shumer just got a Gmail banned because an agent was using it. This one made me pause, because honestly I'm guilty of the same thing. My bots run on the same Gmail my clients reply to. It works great right up until the day it doesn't, and xAI's own docs are clear that every bot on your account shares the same logins. One eager bot, one weird email, and it's not the bot that gets flagged, it's the domain. So that's my fix for this week: the bots get their own mailbox, and the inbox clients reply to goes back to being mine. Everyone shows the agent demo. Nobody shows the blast radius.
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nisheshmani (@chefnishesh) reported@UltrahumanHQ why is it that only a gmail or facebook login can happen on you app. Why can't I use any other email to login to the account, I have ordered stuff need to log in.
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Ayush Ray (@Aaayush_Ray) reported1/5 The Journey of an Email 📧 When we press Send, Gmail doesn't simply send the email directly to our friend. Instead, the email goes through several systems before reaching the inbox. The journey: Sender → Gmail → DNS → Recipient Mail Server → Inbox The recipient's mail server stores the email until the recipient connects and checks their inbox. Email uses a store-and-forward architecture — messages are stored by mail servers and delivered asynchronously.
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Abhi Abhi (@AbhiAbhi1989437) reported@AjioCares @AjioCares customer service is a total waste of time. I provided exact delivery proofs via Gmail and filed an NCH complaint, but their social team just loops bot scripts and fake T&Cs. They owe me ₹200 and refuse to fix it. Don't waste your time referring friends here!
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Axat (@axat_div) reportedWhy does the Gmail settings page look so antiquated? I hope they can use Gemini or Claude Design to hopefully fix it and make it look less cluttered
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Muyillonaire (@MuyiwaWilliams_) reportedPlease is Gmail down ?
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Marcus (@biggerd05) reported@Timmy2Tap14 @Google @gmail Did you ever find a fix? Still not receiving notifications.