Gmail status: access issues and outage reports
Problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: errors, website down 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 20: Problems at Gmail
Gmail is having issues since 01:20 PM AEST. 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.
- Errors (37%)
- Website Down (36%)
- Sign in (27%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:
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Errors | 7 hours ago |
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Errors | 15 hours ago |
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Sign in | 16 hours ago |
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Errors | 22 hours ago |
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Sign in | 23 hours ago |
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Website Down | 1 day ago |
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Gmail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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rr🧃 (@justspacebaby) reported@I_am_huntex @gmail Oh I thought I was the only one experiencing this problem
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Dr. Simone Gold (@drsimonegold) reportedDavid Morens just pleaded guilty. Fauci’s senior advisor. The man who sat at his right hand for years. He used a secret Gmail account to hide official communications from the American people. He destroyed and concealed federal records to evade FOIA. He worked to protect the grants that flowed into Wuhan and the narrative that COVID could not have come from the lab his agency funded. This was not a clerical error. This was a deliberate cover-up while the country was locked down, censored, injected, and told to “trust the science.” Careers were destroyed. Early treatments were suppressed. Children lost years of their childhoods. Millions suffered. We stood on the steps of the Supreme Court in 2020 and told the truth. They censored us. They called us dangerous. They were the ones deleting the evidence. One guilty plea is not enough. The house of cards is still standing as long as the man at the top remains untouched. Accountability is not optional. It is the only path back to medicine and a free country.
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Israeli (@Israeli2025) reported@ingela56579322 As i posted elsewhere i can`t DM here i`m on my desktop and it won`t let me, i can quickly post my Whatsapp or my Gmail if you`d like to talk or google chat or Teamz. that`s not a problem so simply let me know which works better for you.
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Logan Ullyott (@Loganullyott) reported@nbaschez IDK about Instinct but tried Grok Bot yesterday and it felt like a real shift. The time from install -> successful results is way way faster than anything else I’ve seen. GB had completely automated two annoying recurring tasks in ~5 minutes. Claude and open AI couldn’t handle them (permissions issues, log-in issues, loops/cron not running) Hermes was just too difficult to set up, super non-intuitive and I didn’t want to spend an afternoon watching tutorials. “Hey Grok, do this 7 step thing that requires passwords, watching emails, making stripe invoices, collecting payments, emailing customers…” “Ok. Need your gmail permission and stripe permission and … done.”
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Brittany 🏳️🌈 (@MammothFanta) reportedHey @gmail not letting me permanently sort my e-mails by “Most Recent” and it default to “Most Relevant” is not okay. Who are you to deem what’s relevant? What’s relevant is the order in which they are received. I found an e-mail BURIED in bs and ads because of this. FIX IT.
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M.P.Naveen (@M_P_naveen_24) reported@_groww Other Apps like Dhann, Upstox etc providing both Mobile + Gmail Login otps too. Only Groww is troubling without any customer friendly improvement. If this continues - will close all groww accounts. #Enable_Emailid_Login_Otp's_On_Groww (2/2)
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Mags (@MagravatorMag) reportedSee the documentary "Died Suddenly," which I was forbidden from sharing on any platform AND my T-Mobile phone and Google's Gmail. Good times, right, @TMobile and @gmail? I hope your companies die a slow and embarrassing death to serve as an example for the next batch of communist cowards who think they can shut us up. IT WAS ALL TRUE! 🖕
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gothaggis (@gothaggis) reported@CBSNews So he got in trouble for using Gmail to backchannel information …..and yet, no issue with Hegseth using Signal…….uh ok.
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Nick Gray (@nickgraynews) reportedI have been using Grok Bot @bot a lot - 42% of my weekly usage. Here's what I like and don't like so far Things I like: 1. Having agents without needing a Mac Mini or whatever for Hermes or OpenClaw. Being able to talk to the agents from my phone and my laptop and not being tied to one of my own devices 2. It just works (mostly! sorta!) 3. The "pick an option for what I should do" is the correct upgrade for chat bot interface (I loved doing that with my OpenClaw bot on Telegram) There's a lot more that I like: I assigned it a task to help me write a job description for something, and while searching my email for something else, it found a very relevant (and not something I asked for) other email thread - which it incorporated into my results, and that was excellent and appreciated and what I'd expect of a human assistant Things I don't like: 1. My Gmail connector via the MCP kept having issues. Eg: If I tried to write an email with a URL, it replaced the URL with a Google redirect link to that URL fix -- I forced my agents to use Gmail's API and sent them a token for auth 2. The agents are not proactive enough on long-running tasks. For example, I asked my email agent to check my Inbox for receipts every 15 minutes during the work day; it has been over an hour and I haven't heard back from that agent fix -- people say to to "Reset Grok Bot's computer" but I was afraid to do that. But an XAI employee just told me it is safe, and also will be fixed later today, so I am restarting it now 3. The agents get overwhelmed with multiple tasks in thread. The agent gravitates towards the last task mentioned- and not iteratively cranking through and/or following up on multiple items that were discussed example -- Hey, so I'm thinking about X and I want to do this... and then also on XX I want to do this... by the way, what happened to XXX? -- and then it will only action on XXX item 4. The select button options for responses could be improved. I'd love to see multiple-choice options, for example. I think Claude, specifically Claude Design, has really nailed the AskUserQuestion tool and I'd love to see more of that in Grok Bot 5. Web browser tasks are sometimes painfully slow. I made an agent to order french fries from the hamburger place next to my office, and it takes a solid 3-4 minutes for the agent to click through fix -- I tried making a CLI tool using Printing Press and it partially works, except for auth, so I spent about 35 minutes to shave off 2 minutes of order time (lol) Overall: I haven't used my OpenClaw in months and it is has been nice to get back into the agents world with Grok Bot. I will continue playing with it! I am sure the product will keep getting better For now it is not a silver bullet. But it is insanely easy to set up and get started
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Kyle Dickson (@KDicksonDigital) reportedBad copy kills cold email accounts. So does an inbox that quietly started landing in spam three weeks ago. Only one of those shows up when you reread the email. I send cold email from thousands of inboxes. You can't check that by hand. So I built a Claude skill that runs the whole audit on one command. Type the slash command, name the client, walk away. Four things it checks: 1. Inbox placement. Sends from every inbox to Gmail, Outlook and Yahoo, then reports back inbox vs promotions vs spam. Anything sitting in spam gets rotated out. 2. Spam copy. Reads every live campaign in the account and flags the lines tripping filters. 3. DNS. SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX on every domain. A broken record tanks your sending without throwing an error. 4. Bounce rates. Pulls the rate on every mailbox. Too high comes out, a healthy inbox goes in. Then it writes a one-page report per client, so I know where each account stands before I open Instantly. I run it twice a week. Monday and Thursday. Comment "Playbook" and I'll send you the full cold email playbook I run these accounts on. Rewriting your copy is the easy fix to reach for. Check whether it's getting delivered first.
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SoloTech (@solotechdev) reported@arvidkahl "login with gmail" I'm all depended this
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Demosthenes Twin (@DemosthenesTwin) reported@DanFriedman81 Nike is run by complete dei idiots. Just now I googled Nike. Click on an ad to a pair of shoes I like. The website forces me to the app which I have. But I’m not logged in. App is forcing me to sign in or sign up. No work around. Fine. Click sign in and use autofill. Then wants a code sent to my email. No guys, use my saved password instead, enter it in. Next screen is asking for another code sent to my email. I give up and come back here. I’ve worked in web design and e-commerce for a long time. Everything about this was wrong. They should see this in their data analysis. I just can’t believe I did several actions after clicking an ad, and get this, I never even got to the product page! I was forced out of their site by a login firewall that wanted me to open Gmail, and copy a code. This is mind bogglingly arrogant and incompetent. They must have a room full of Indians and women running their website to be this horrible. I can only imagine their web analytics seeing ads clicked and the massive drop off to even landing on the product pages. Anyone with an ounce of experience or basic intelligence can see forcing users to the app is stupid. And also forcing a sign in before even getting to the product page is more insane. They are doomed. And I can’t even see their ******* website as it won’t let me without a ******* code from my email.
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Chris, (@AvalosChris) reported@AnthropicAI my Gmail draft tool has been down for over 10 days. I have tried disconnecting and connecting it multiple times. I tried restarting my computer and all this basic troubleshooting. PLEASE HELP!
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kael (@kaelwontmiss) reportedTexting her gmail is the modern version of driving down to her house cus she refused to pick your calls
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Sophia Orthoi (@SophiaOrthoi) reported@hfakos @Alonso_GD Mail can be similar as banking. If you run an email server, gmail classifies mails send from it as spam, even if you comply with their conditions. If you ask them why they do it, you get no answer.
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Gabriel Osorio-Mazzilli (@InvestiBrew) reportedNow compare Ed Zitron's take on what Madison just told you for the AI trade Rather than promises, fiction, and a "feel good" story He dropped all the facts for the $DRAM $SOXX $SMH broader trade Especially around $NVDA ... Propping Up Customers $NVDA invested heavily into $IREN and $CRWV before they IPO'd, an injection which was mostly used to finance GPU purchases Every NVIIDA partnership announcement made these companies pump in valuation and expectations Backstopped by GPU collateral that worked as long as chip prices continued to go up Sadly this is happening across 100+ entities with $AAOI $NBIS being the latest pumps Demand is Overstated When digging into $CRWV $MSFT $GOOGL $AMZN $ORCL and many others in the compute fronts You quickly find that over 70% of all revenue comes from OpenAI and Anthropic There is no proof of ever finding profitability behind the massive capex wave right now, zero. If there was any real compute demand, we would see it outside of these two AI lab concentration, which are being pumped so NVIDIA's financing doesn't collapse No Real User Growth When you break down the usage data, there's a 55x gap between the top 10% spenders and the median spender on AI usage This comes from dynamics like: Google's Gmail use of AI is non-voluntary, yet they still count it as AI users Same for Microsoft Copilot now embedded in every Office Suit product Voluntary AI usage has generated roughly $10-15 billion in revenues so far Which is "pathetic" compared to over $5 trillion in commitments made so far Insolvent Economics Raise prices or increase user base We've already seen the pushback from rising token costs, forcing people to look elsewhere like $BABA models and other open-source services in China The truth is that these American AI labs fear the Chinese competition Because China has found a way to operate with: - Less GPUs - Less capex - More throughput For the bulls out there... What in the world are you thinking when you pay over 10x P/S for these companies???
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Eric Nevala (@Slayemin) reported@solopribuilds You can just do a radix sort and just walk down the character tree until you find a terminating leaf node. Responsiveness depends on how much back and forth message traffic Gmail wants per character entered.
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Robert Pickles (@cooksbayouboy) reported@Voxyz_ai Are all of the connectors working for you? The Gmail seems fine, GrokBot can't use the X connector (installed and authenticated) blaming cursor for an issue. It almost got my X account suspended attempting to login the web. I think the VM moves around, and sometimes has IP's from prohibited areas.
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Avid (@Av1dlive) reportedcall me insane... but grok bot is the single most powerful agent stack i've ever used. it will have your entire business run by agent teams working for you 24/7. I just cancelled chatgpt and hermes to replace them with it then mapped the entire grok bot agentic workflows into 4 excalidraw diagrams... (steal this) →support desk: a chief of staff bot routes tickets, drafts replies, pings me only for refunds or anger →money + ops: a bot processes invoices in gmail and keeps the books moving without me →content: a bot scopes the brief, cites sources, hands me a publish-ready draft →build: a bot reproduces the bug, files the ticket, hands the fix to the next bot plus it's all free..give the screenshots to grok bot and it runs your business
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Pearl AI (@heypearlai) reportedMicrosoft just patched a Copilot bug that let attackers steal your Gmail, Drive, and Calendar data with one click, and researchers found it by literally just talking to the AI. They kept asking Copilot "why can't this happen," and every refusal came back with a technical explanation. Eventually it handed them an undocumented URL parameter, unprompted, mid-refusal. That parameter was the whole exploit. One click on a link built from it, and Copilot pulled your data with no further interaction needed. Microsoft patched it on Aug 18. Varonis found the flaw, and there's no sign it was exploited before the fix.
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Mike P (@mikepat711) reported@gusiggins “i have this problem where both of my gmail inboxes are so full of **** and i do not want to face cleaning them up. but i'd love to not have thousands of emails in each. do you think there's a way you could go mop them up for me? i don't want to lose old important emails, but there's so much crap in there that i'd love to get out so my inbox isn't packed”
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The Engulfing Guy 🌊 (@TheEngulfingGuy) reportedDang, hit my grok bot limit, and there is 6 days until the reset. Trying to clear out my Gmail backlog really wore ol' boy down. A Grok bot reset would be slick right now...
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InferX (@InferXai) reported@PandarYogesh Hi. Once you login either using Gmail or GitHub, you will see an option to subscribe..
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Abhishek Kumar (@mabhi1999) reportedOne of the most irritating thing about gmail is its everywhere. I have so many choices (inbox, all mails, sents) that instead of moving fast I become extremely slow. Shifting from one provider to another is like running away from problem. Gmail should be organised and If no one is going to do it then I will.
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Hridoy "OFC" (@Hridoyback) reported@chokmahxbt Unlock badge not working Daily gmail login Daily task not working
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Novemberblu2026 (@TersaAZymroz13) reported@LilithWraith versus her broken nose that she managed to sleep with. Then this current court case being over something that is almost a year ago in which she waited almost 8 months to report to police, unless I am missing something. Lastly the sigining in to JLR gmail and X account, allegedly
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FarhanX_AI (@FarhanBuildsAI) reportedIf someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵
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Asaad (@Sheencharlie0) reported@minrelu @LinkedInHelp Bro, make a new gmail account. And put that on when they ask for verification, worked for me and for my friends who had the same issue
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⋆˚࿔ 𝑪𝒉𝒐𝒄𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 ⊹ ࣪ ˖ Ი⑅𐑼 (@Brownibrowni10x) reportedOH MY GDO I WAS LOCKED OUT OF MY ACCOUNT AND I COULDN'T USE MY GMAIL TO RECOVER IT SINCE I HAVE PROBLEMS WITH IT. OH MY GOD IM FREE IT CONSTANTLY KEPT PUTTING ME THROUGH THE LOG IN PAGE BUT IT FIANLLY GLITCHED AND IM FREE IM FREE OOMFS
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Rajkamal Buddhist (@Rajkamaltech1) reportedHi team google @googlechrome @Google @gmail my account is hacked by someone else and I cannot login. He is threatinng me to leak my private photos. Kindly dm me urgently.