Gmail status: access issues and outage reports
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Users are reporting problems related to: website down, errors 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 26: Problems at Gmail
Gmail is having issues since 11:00 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.
- Website Down (38%)
- Errors (35%)
- Sign in (27%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:
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Website Down | 8 hours ago |
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Sign in | 9 hours ago |
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Gmail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Christopher Lee (@coachseeel) reported@JohanLibertth @gmail will fix today
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AMERICAN HODL 🇺🇸 (@americanhodl8) reportedI talked to this person too and it was the standard social engineering playbook. After months of calls from “google” he finally decided to pick one up because it said it was from the Mountain View area. The scammers then socially engineered him to reset his gmail password. They gained access to his gmail account, where they watched him email the real @trezor. They then called pretending to be trezor and tried to give him a fake link to click. He was smart enough not to do that and went to the trezor website himself. But they had already pulled pictures of his ID and passport from his gmail and created a panic inducing story about someone trying to pretend to be him and they said in the wake of coldcard they had a new recovery service and if he would just type his seed phrase into the chrome url they could make sure his bitcoin was safe. In a moment of panic his brain glitched out and he decided it was a good idea to do that. The scammers then had access to his google and were able to see his browser history so they were able to read his seed in plain text and they stole his bitcoin. He knows this was a big mistake and he feels dumb for falling for it, but this kid is not dumb. He knows a lot about bitcoin and has even heard about these types of scams before. He simply had a very human moment of genuine fear and panic (which was artificially created by the scammers) and then ****** up and made a catastrophic error. The lesson is that your own panic and fear is the scammers weapon, so if you’re feeling that it’s best to pump the breaks and slow everything way down. Get off the phone and breathe. Call a trusted friend. Come to them with what’s going on. The other unpopular lesson is that self custody is hard and it’s not for everyone. Stay safe out there friends.
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Cody via (@CVia10388) reportedJust got @bot for the administrative side of my company. Very impressed and fairly easy to use for the average person. The only thing I had problems with was linking it to my quickbooks. There is no plugin (as of now hopefully) and when I tried to give it access through its browser, it was flagged and didnt allow it to sign in. I also couldn't get into my outlook email account. My Gmail worked perfectly.
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Tyler Keehner (@STFUnion) reportedFirst thing was have it ho through my Gmail and have it clean up my 40k emails, now it maintains my email every day, I also have it take long form video content and cut it down and edit it to make 9:16 short form content for YouTube. I would suggest just brain dump on Grok Bot, once it knows you, it will start making suggestions yo automate.
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Muyillonaire (@MuyiwaWilliams_) reportedPlease is Gmail down ?
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Andrew Rulnick (@MickeySteamboat) reportedCan you believe that one seemingly simple link server to gmail feature/button necessitates a battery of over 172 tests to make sure it's properly secure when you write these in lower level languages & PHP WASM? I refuse to compromise or simplify with API, that's how mistakes happen
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Zyre (@Zyre_eth) reported@maddie_phoenix_ For this campaign you need binance wallet Otherwise you can login through various ways - gmail - google - x - any EVM wallet
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Bali as a Colony of Jakarta (@pakar_ai) reported@ModelScope2022 not interested too hard to follow to many step u should just make it login with gmail also small model not good for real task
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Fahad Saleem (@Pakgowithai) reported@GeminiApp @gmail Handling the task is not my problem. Remembering what I already asked is. In my tax work the same client question comes back three times a week and I retype it every time. If Live carries that context across the whole day, that is the actual feature here.
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Aijay (@IjeomaAnyiamO) reported@AirtelNigeria whatever is going on with your network and Gmail/YouTube, kindly fix it. For two days now and you can’t say you aren’t aware of it. Fix up, please. Being a consistently terrible internet provider is no flex.
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LeadAce — Autonomous sales for Claude Code (@leadace_so) reported16 out of 16 direct sends pass DMARC alignment after the fix. But 15 of 33 forwarded copies fail on the same day. info@ that forwards to a founder's Gmail breaks the DKIM signature, and the sender cannot do anything about it.
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Marcus (@biggerd05) reported@Timmy2Tap14 @Google @gmail Did you ever find a fix? Still not receiving notifications.
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Theo - t3.gg (@theo) reportedI think we’ll quickly hit some kind of balance here where software goes into a few buckets: 1. AI-powered human interfaces (Codex, T3 Code, Claude Cowork) 2. programmatic interfaces (anything with a good MCP, CLI, or agent ready APIs) 3. legacy human interfaces (apps like Excel, Gmail, Photoshop) Investor world seems to think everything will become category 2. Anyone who’s tried to use one of these awful bridges knows that will never happen. I can’t even automate my GitHub usage without hitting endless rate limits 🙃 Category 1 is getting saturated fast with chat interfaces. Category 3 is fighting to pretend they still matter by baking awful agents into their products. I think Category 2 is the best place to fight right now, but you have to do it without pretending you can just staple a slow, rate limited API onto some existing software. I think @pierrecomputer is the best example right now. It seems like fixing GitHub to handle the unique needs and load from agents isn’t viable, and they built something tailor made for the needs of agents.
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Kritiman Talukdar (@Kritiman2005) reportedEvery AI agent tool routes your emails, files, and messages through someone else's server. Aegis doesn't. Local LLM, local database, your machine only. The model that reads your Gmail never leaves your laptop. Building it because I wanted this to exist.
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VKY Munir (@iamvkymunir) reportedIf you are starting your first YouTube channel, you don't need a special IP, you don't need an RDP, and you definitely don't need to worry about YouTube shadow-banning you. Why? Because you should create your first channel on the exact same Gmail account you are using right now to watch YouTube videos. Your current Gmail already has a 100% Trust Score—provided you haven't engaged in any spamming. The conditions are simple: --It must be your daily-use Gmail. --Your mobile phone is connected to it. --You use it regularly to send and receive emails. --You use it for other social media platforms, not just YouTube. YouTube hates robotic behavior, and rightly so. YouTube needs real, ordinary people to join the platform and become creators. Right now, you are just a regular person. If you create a channel, you are highly valuable to YouTube because you naturally meet their Trust Score criteria. So, don't buy an IP. Don't get an RDP. Don't even change your browser. Just log into your Gmail on any laptop or computer, and leave it logged in on your phone. Just make sure the computer you're using doesn't belong to a spammer and is just a regular home PC. Start uploading videos. But remember: don't attack the platform all at once. No normal person creates and uploads 10 videos in a single day. Move like a regular human: --Upload a video some days, skip others. No strict, robotic routine. --You don't have to post every single day. --You don't always have to publish at the exact same time. --Your videos don't always have to be the exact same length. Keep things varied. Just act natural, and YouTube will treat you naturally. The second you show artificial behavior, YouTube will catch you instantly. Google knows the name of your Wi-Fi. They know who is connected, how many devices are on the network, what gets uploaded from that IP address, what apps are being used, and what content is being consumed. They know everything. Your only job is to act like a normal human being. If you create 10 channels and manage to maintain normal human behavior across all 10, you will never face the "0 views" or "0 impressions" problem. But the moment YouTube senses a robot, a habitual spammer, or a scammer, your path to success will be blocked. My next post will be about, how to look natural, even if you have 100s of channels running.
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Sebastian Caniulao | Ecommerce Email & Growth (@canipack21) reported@NickAbraham12 The domain-level tracking is the piece most people skip. Same discipline pays off on the retention side: watching engagement per sending domain caught a Gmail-only dip for one of my ecommerce clients weeks before revenue showed it, because the blend across providers hid the drop. Averages are where deliverability problems go to hide.
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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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Seyimola 🤴 (@seyimola) reported@gmail @googlemaps I can't login into my account anytime i try, it keeps telling me account already exist even after i have cleared all data on my Gmail
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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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Caveat Emporium (@LukRamsay) reported@TaylorLorenz Maybe Gmail could just fix search, and you (or those like you) could stop being such braindead losers
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Still BS (@StillBRS) reported@BookSpotlight Spam filtering is getting spotty, too. Like, Gmail lets you flag addresses as VIP... but they can still end up in the spam folder. It's unbelievable how we get these egregious errors in tech now that just waft along.
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Christian (@coldemailchris) reportedGrok Bot shipped this month and you can run an entire outbound desk inside it. Here's the full build: 1) Create one bot first and make it the coordinator. Give it a title, pin it to the top, and don't give it any work. Its only job is knowing which bot owns what. 2) Brain dump your whole motion into it. Your ICP, offer, channels, stack, what you want off your plate. Then reverse prompt it: Ask how it would structure the desk based on what it now knows. It writes the bots itself. 3) Build 6 bots, one job each: > list builder, owns TAM sourcing & segmentation > enrichment, runs the waterfall & scores accounts > copywriter, writes variants per segment > deliverability, watches bounce rates & inbox health daily > replies, scores intent & drafts responses > coordinator, reads all five and hands you one list 4) Give them real names. Sounds pointless. You delegate noticeably more when the sidebar reads like a team instead of a list of functions. 5) Install the plugin layer. Gmail, Calendar, X, and Agent Mail. Agent Mail gives every bot its own inbox and address in about ten seconds. 6) Never hand a bot your credentials. Each one gets its own email, then you invite it into your tools like a contractor. Moderator, not admin. Scoped to one workspace. 7) Put them on routines. Deliverability runs every morning before sending starts. Replies runs continuously. Coordinator runs once at the end of the day. 8) Every stop condition has to be checkable by something other than the bot. "Bounce rate pulled from the sequencer" works. "The bot says it ran" does not, and this is where swarms fail silently. The reason this beats one big agent: A single agent's description has to cover every job you own, and that whole thing gets read on every request. Split by role and you split the context with it. The deliverability bot answers fast because it isn't reading about your copy first. Week one output is mediocre. You fix it by messaging the specific bot that produced the weak brief and telling it what was wrong. Then it rewrites its own instructions. Most of the setup is deciding who owns what. The prompts literally take an evening.
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Sukhwinder | Ecom Email Marketing (@HeySukhwinder) reportedYou didn't have a bad copy week. You had a loud week. The inbox sends the bill later. You ran a sale, followed it with a reminder and a last-chance email, then launched another sale a few days later because the calendar demanded a number. They eventually stop opening your emails, some start landing in spam, and the next email that actually matters gets ignored because you already used up their attention. Gmail hides you, the customer hides you, and the result is the same. The wrong fix is louder subject lines, a bigger percent off, "we miss you + 15%." That's another shout wearing an apology. The recovery is quieter. Fewer sends for a week or two. One useful email that isn't a coupon - how to use what they bought, a short story, a real question they can actually answer. Stop mailing people who already tapped out of this cadence. Not a funeral for the list. They didn't ask for this volume. When a sale comes back, it comes back after you've been a guest again. Not as the apology. You can't shout your way into a $100K-500K-class program. You can only get invited back. 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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AGTP (@AGTPinsights) reportedChatGPT just expanded automation with website logins and app triggers today. Here's what you need to know. ChatGPT Work can now sign into password-protected websites on web and mobile, without OpenAI ever seeing your username or password. You can ask it to set up utilities for a new apartment, book a DMV or passport appointment, or check a reimbursement, basically anything you'd normally click through a browser yourself. OpenAI says the earlier version of this required a manual takeover step, where you logged in yourself inside a virtual browser and screenshots were disabled during that window. The new rollout brings direct sign-in support to both the web and cloud browser, still without exposing credentials to the model. Scheduled tasks also got an upgrade. Plus and Pro users can now set tasks to trigger off events in Slack, Gmail, and GitHub, like a new email or a pull request update, instead of only running on a fixed schedule. Free users are getting scheduled tasks for the first time too, capped at three tasks each. Users can also now share their favorite tasks for others to customize and use. Key numbers: - Free users: up to 3 scheduled tasks - Plus and Pro: event-triggered tasks on Slack, Gmail, GitHub - Login feature: rolling out today for Plus, Pro, and Business on web and mobile Both features are live now, and OpenAI says credentials are never seen or stored by ChatGPT.
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Amna Aslam (@amnaaslam20) reported@NCbassey @LinkedInHelp It happened with me too . Don't login for next few hours. Close all your Gmail accounts on your device and then add your Gmail account in login.
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febrino ✳️ (@febrinoabstract) reported@AbstractChain Just Login with gmail
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Younes يـــونـس (@Younes_Hatti) reported@Xhasbeenruined @GeminiApp Problem is I was just explaining context to it last week and it sent an email that's clearly not ready to an important client. I like that it can read my Google drive files and Gmail inbox, but I want to send and make changes by myself.
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monokern (@monokern) reported$ARCHITECTURE UTILITY IS ALMOST HERE. THE TOKEN WILL POWER THE ENTIRE GROK BOT AGENT SYSTEM I'm close to finishing the payment layer that connects $ARCHITECTURE directly to the product. Sign in with Gmail → receive an internal wallet → deposit ARCHITECTURE → convert it into Agent Credits → use those credits to run research, writing, audit, outreach and other agent workflows. Every payment is distributed through the system: - 85% → Agent Credits that cover models, tools, browser sessions and cloud execution - 10% → permanently burned - 5% → Community Bounty Pool for bug reports, integrations, new workflows and useful contributions GOAL: ARCHITECTURE should not exist next to the product only as a token It should move through the product every time the agents perform real work The full utility loop is almost ready
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Alextrubbish (@RealTrubbish) reportedI am in hell My phone broke Saturday night and now I'm locked out of my Apple account with trouble getting into my gmail also I managed to get into here but I'm essentially locked out of everything else I'm trying to fix things but if you notice I disappeared that is why
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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? 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." Time to start thinking about doing something really different, before it's too late, if you ask me. But maybe this is exactly what they intended all along? PS: I think they could get funded. But imo, that would just create some very angry investors who end up paying $1B+ to see later what I already see now.