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Outlook.com is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services from Microsoft. One of the world's first webmail services, it was founded in 1996 as Hotmail.

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Outlook.com 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.

Outlook.com Outage Chart 12/28/2025 23:10

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Outlook.com users through our website.

  1. Sign in (61%)

    Sign in (61%)

  2. Website Down (22%)

    Website Down (22%)

  3. Errors (17%)

    Errors (17%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:

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City Problem Type Report Time
CanadaHamilton Sign in
United StatesMesa Sign in
United KingdomLiverpool Sign in
United StatesOlathe Sign in
GermanyStade Errors
United KingdomLondon Errors
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Outlook.com Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • AnjMarieD Anj Marie (@AnjMarieD) reported

    @Outlook I have been trying to create a new email and the image selection to create a new account is not working. Spent the last 10 minutes going through it. You just lost a customer. I am going to @Google. I am a O365 customer, you may have just lost all my business. #Microsoft

  • HogneBP Hogne Bø Pettersen (@HogneBP) reported

    @Giggles_FI @Outlook Teams and Outlook are the worst ones, hands down.

  • DrRapshody Dr.Rapshody (@DrRapshody) reported

    @Outlook could you PLZ fix the error 500 ffs?

  • BlueMancunion All 4 Football (@BlueMancunion) reported

    @Outlook I forgot my password to my email, when entering my phone number for a code, I'm getting no message with the code. I am 100% certain the phone number is correct. Is this a glitch?

  • helicopuma fred puma (@helicopuma) reported

    @Waizerrr @Outlook same problem to Nice in France

  • wsbeck wendy beck (@wsbeck) reported

    @Outlook Is Outlook down? Can't get it to come up this morning in San Francisco. Everything else works.

  • JFredBeck2 Denver is unverefiably too damn high (@JFredBeck2) reported

    @ryanyates1990 @Outlook If they could just turn the clock back 20 years and fix new email notification badges I would be thrilled. Same goes for teams chat.

  • Jackda1878 Jack Ash (@Jackda1878) reported

    @Outlook hi, I am unable to send any emails? Are you having problems? Thanks

  • gxrs1988 Graham (@gxrs1988) reported

    @Outlook shame the spam filters are down again. loads and loads of spam getting through

  • RissaHalls Rissa TweetWoman ♡ (@RissaHalls) reported

    @Outlook how do I speak to a person to get access to an email account? The online form is not working for me.

  • guymoise4 Guy M. (@guymoise4) reported

    @Outlook @PippoZanetti86 Hello, I tried with different browsers(chrome firefox palemoon) and different OS(mac linux Win), the issue is on your side.

  • Bobby400268i1 finger_lickn_good (@Bobby400268i1) reported

    @Outlook has there been an issue over the past week with #Hotmail accounts? I’d sent several email with hotmail but when I checked today they wer nowhere to be found? 🤔

  • Dappa_94 DevyDev (@Dappa_94) reported

    @Outlook you guys suck!!!! Worse server ever !!

  • barrut85 Bartłomiej Ruta (@barrut85) reported from Gostyń, Województwo Wielkopolskie

    Hmm… @Outlook tango down?! 🤨

  • yessheismaroon I Am The Problem (@yessheismaroon) reported

    @Outlook what’s going on? Your site is down or something?

  • PurplePlayEnt Youri (@PurplePlayEnt) reported

    @GirlxRock @Outlook I'm getting the same error message. I've tried accessing my email from different devices

  • 87878787878787G g e o r g e (@87878787878787G) reported

    @Outlook Hey, I’ve tried all this, the issue we have is the number attached to my mum’s account is an old mobile number, meaning she can’t access the verification code, how can we navigate around this? We do know the password now just can’t get the access code?

  • Citizener Julien C. (@Citizener) reported

    @Outlook @Waizerrr The same happens to me and it seems it’s the case for more and more people. No problem with the iOS application though.

  • wolvykasu wolvykasu (@wolvykasu) reported

    @DrRapshody @Outlook last night I was having this problem too but thank god I'm not alone now that people are now awake and trying to do stuff.

  • tailorguitar TailorGuitar (@tailorguitar) reported

    @MicrosoftHelps massive amounts of spam and phishing being delivered to the inbox. this started a couple days ago. was an issue a few months ago now returned. please fix it. don't give me a standard canned response you know this is an issue. #outlook @Outlook

  • rawbbiee Robbie with an ie (@rawbbiee) reported

    Is the mobile @Outlook app not working on iPhones?

  • sujaydutta Sujay Dutta (@sujaydutta) reported

    @Outlook What would it take to add the ability to set Automatic replies (OOO messages) right from the mobile app itself. Why do we have to login to the desktop app for that?

  • guymoise4 Guy M. (@guymoise4) reported

    @GirlxRock @prorecovery7 @Outlook Its an issue on their end not a hack.

  • SAKlara_ Saklara (@SAKlara_) reported

    @Outlook hey, it's been a few days i cant use my outlook mail box on the computer, there's a problem with it, idk how it is possible to have such stupid lagg with you. Please do something

  • tanstech Tanswell Technology (@tanstech) reported

    @Outlook seeing serious issues with Outlook this week across multiple tenants and clients. Seems to be the Cloud Signature update corrupting OSTs along with many other performance and reliability issues. This can't be coincidence. What's going on?

  • Waizerrr Dimitri (@Waizerrr) reported

    @DrRapshody @Outlook @Dappa_94 Hello, I have the same problem. Have you found a solution?

  • soxxylady Sharon 🦋 (@soxxylady) reported

    @Dappa_94 @Outlook It’s outlook itself, I’ve tried everything to get it sorted and you just distract the people complaining to useless solutions what do nothing. Worse server in the world, this has been happening for months

  • Adithpodhar Adith Podhar 🇮🇳 | adith.eth (@Adithpodhar) reported

    @frantzfries @Microsoft can't even fix search in @Outlook . It's been pathetic since ages

  • Dappa_94 DevyDev (@Dappa_94) reported

    @Outlook My emails are not loading and it has been days. What do I need to do to fix this because it has become a major issue for me

  • TheMindChopper Binit (@TheMindChopper) reported

    Not able to create an outlook account - Captcha keeps repeating even though I have given the correct answers. Same issue with audio captcha.@Outlook @Microsoft Also can’t seem@find a way to add a new user (without an email) on Win 10.