Outlook.com status: access issues and outage reports
Problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: sign in, website down and errors.
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.
April 27: Problems at Outlook.com
Outlook.com is having issues since 06:20 AM EST. Are you also affected? Leave a message in the comments section!
Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Outlook.com users through our website.
- Sign in (61%)
- Website Down (20%)
- Errors (19%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 5 minutes ago |
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Sign in | 9 minutes ago |
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Sign in | 10 minutes ago |
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Sign in | 12 minutes ago |
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Sign in | 14 minutes ago |
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Sign in | 14 minutes ago |
Community Discussion
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Outlook.com Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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José Ramón (@ramixbucks) reported@jthanMoura @AppleSupport @Outlook This is not about iOS or iPhone, outlook’s service is down for everyone.
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A R Pᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ (@altieri_palorca) reported@Outlook My case involves MAILBOX CORRUPTION, not deletion. I need this escalated to the engineering team. Only they can restore internal server snapshots. The attack happened yesterday — there is still time.
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Br1t 2000🇺🇦🇬🇧 (@Br1t2000) reported@lovemesomeALLI @daveb1893 @Outlook Still not working - ridiculous…
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Mister Mack (@the_mister_mack) reportedIs @Outlook mail down? None of my account including work are loading.
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chakuchuri (@chakuchuri) reported@Outlook fix your app lags a lot these days. What kind of bloated app is this?
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Souvik Mukherjee (@souvik610) reported@Outlook I'm having authentication error for my outlook email id
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Colz (@simplymecj) reported@Outlook why the bomboclatt can’t I login to my account tf wrong with y’all man kmt
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DJ Wolf (@TheWolfsWolfden) reported@Outlook i have been unable to get a hold through to my emails.For the last few days, my business and my personal and it seems microsoft doesn't give a **** because they won't connect me to a live person to give me support with this issue. Now they are costing my business money.
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Joey Bressette (@J0seph455) reported@Outlook can't login to my email. Forgot my password and can't login and they won't send me a verification code. What do I do?
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Arch. Mohammed AL-Turki (@mturki) reported@Outlook We demand an urgent and permanent fix, along with better customer support that matches the company’s reputation and users’ trust. #Outlook #Microsoft #Support
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Kevin Sar (@kevinsar) reported@Outlook y'all broke your android app today, check your reviews no one can login
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acacia 🥨 (@AcaciaBegley) reported@rav3n9999 @Apple @Outlook You’ve saved my phones trips down the stairs 😭 it’s had me feeling like I’m going insane for the last hour. One account signed back in no problem. The other?? Another 3 “enter password” popups since. Can watch it unsync itself in real time 😐
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Joel (@Joel94994231) reported@Outlook @marti81_16 If the fkn log in system. I can't log in half the time says to many times login in use different browser. Just let me use a fkn password. I don't want 50 different methods. Ffs. Wake ******** up @Outlook
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Jack (@JackBadapdos21) reported@Outlook I'm having issues accessing my emails on the Outlook app for Android. It works on my old phone but not my Samsung galaxy S25...
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Sarah 🌙🌒✨🥀 (@SarahGibson91) reported@Outlook is there an issue with your email systems with Apple products today? As I am being signed out of my main email account every two minutes, I have changed password and deleted and readded account onto my phone and this is still happening??
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ShellyConfetti2 (@HappySparkles18) reportedHey @Outlook are you having issues? My app isnt working i even uninstall it.
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Christina B Juras (@chrissycee75) reported@Outlook please fix your web-based calendar so it doesn't default to all-day meetings
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🌼🇰🇼زعفرآنه🇰🇼🌼 (@zafraana86) reportedUnable to sign in to my Outlook account. Is there a current outage? Please advise when it will be resolved. @Outlook @Microsoft
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Dani.🇻🇪 (@daniperdomo92) reported@Outlook why are your teams refusing to help with my Hotmail account recovery and just asking me to fill out recovery forms again and again. This is not working. This is my own personal data which I have a right to. Please help me
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So Mino (@storytellrwendy) reported@Outlook you are the most worthless, awful email service out there. I’ve lost access to my email and no matter what I do I can’t get it back. My banking info, billing… I never have this issue with Gmail.
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Symone (@oxxSimmyxxo) reported@Outlook hello I’ve been trying to contact support on how to resolve my login issue, please can someone help me out
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jon brownsill (@jonbrown2021) reported@Outlook hi. I’m having some problems sending emails with pdf attached. Are there any issues at the moment? It sends some messages but not others?
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Seren Söyler (@soylerseren) reported@Microsoft365 @Outlook Unfortunately, I'm having trouble uploading images. And it's a very minor problem. Why is uploading images such a problem? When I upload one, delete it, and then try to upload it again, I have trouble. It's a very old problem these days.
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J.Howard (@jhowardsc) reported@MicrosoftHelps @Outlook ... so is it down or...??? Keeps crashing. Constantly.. yall ok over there?
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BH22 (@BigHorn2822) reported@Outlook Hey Outlook. Your mail app is broke. Having issues for days and I can’t find a resolution. Emails not getting delivered/sent and resetting accounts doesn’t work.
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Georgie Estévez (@jorgestevez) reported@AcaciaBegley @Apple @Outlook Did you try with a Internet browser? I did it and have no problem
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Nick ✨ (@njamess10) reportedGod, @Outlook just keeps getting worse by the day..... what's going on @Microsoft?!?! It never fails to go down. It's NEVER been this bad.
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JoeGeeky (@JoeGeeky) reported@Microsoft @Outlook What's the point in sending 'Feedback' using the "Feedback Hub" if there are no answers and things don't get addressed? Myself and others have reported exploit issues in Outlook and other apps... and nothing... silence...
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Taz 泰秀樂 (@tazorack) reported@Outlook can you please fix Outlook? I been trying to contact you guys directly and no response or help. You need to remake Outlook from the ground up. Horrible system. @MicrosoftHelps
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Callie Schneider (@Callie_Marie24) reported@MicrosoftHelps @Outlook Pretty sure you’re having issues with outlook and wouldn’t you know it there’s no way to get ahold of an actual person for help!