Gmail status: access issues and outage reports

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.

Most Reported Problems

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

• Errors (36%)
• Website Down (35%)
• Sign in (29%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Thiers	Website Down	1 day ago
Liège	Errors	2 days ago
Saint-Ouen	Website Down	2 days ago
Thionville	Errors	3 days ago
Chicago	Errors	3 days ago
Paris	Website Down	3 days ago

Full Outage Map

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Gmail Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  The Beacon AI (@TheBeaconAI) reported 6 minutes ago

  Google's Gmail integration reveals AI personalization's real consent problem The feature is called Personal Intelligence. The controversy it triggered is about something older and harder to fix. A social media post viewed over 6.5 million times exposed what many users hadn't noticed: automatically opted in to allow Gmail to access private messages to train AI models. Google's response: no policies changed, Gmail content isn't used to train Gemini. Both things can be technically true. Neither one resolved the problem. The actual issue isn't what Google is doing. It's that most users have no accurate mental model of what's happening to their data at any given moment. Personal Intelligence routes existing stored data into AI responses. From a policy standpoint, that's a meaningful distinction. From a user's standpoint, the line between "Google has my email" and "Google's AI is actively reading my email to answer my questions" feels like a different thing entirely. To fully escape AI scanning, users must disable three separate features buried across different menus. The opt-out exists. Finding it requires more technical literacy than most users have. The default state effectively becomes the permanent state for 1.8 billion Gmail users. Users in the EU, UK, and Japan have these features disabled by default. That gap is not an accident. It's regulatory arbitrage in practice. Every AI assistant that gets genuinely useful is one that knows more about you. The usefulness and the privacy exposure scale together. The question the industry hasn't answered is whether meaningful consent is possible at this level of data integration, or whether "opt-in" has become a word that describes a checkbox and nothing more.

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  Peter Beens 🇨🇦 (@pbeens) reported 6 minutes ago

  Google made a big deal about #Gemini connecting to Workspace, yet I still get this error: "I don't have access to your personal Gmail account or private emails. To protect your privacy, I can't "log in" or search through your messages directly.". I have Google Workspace connected to Gemini but it still doesn't work. Anyone got any ideas about what I'm doing wrong?

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  dhanyal radha gopi 🏸🎙️ (@dhanyal) reported 7 minutes ago

  had to quit claude desktop app and open again. and now for some weird reason /mcp is not working, but inside a + button --> connectors it shows both gmail and gdrive are connected. and now claude code is able to read emails!

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  ice™ (@jpghyo) reported 7 minutes ago

  @workingurlie not to self report or anything but even tho i can't login to the gmail acc anymore, i can still use the canva premium acc for it

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  EPL EXTRA (@EPL_EXTRA1) reported 8 minutes ago

  @gmail I have an email.. I accidentally deleted it on my phone 6 months ago . And when I try to login it tells me to use a recognized device. I always use my phone. And when it's successfully accepted, it sends the recovery code to the same email and I can access. Help me

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  VC Intern (@the_vc_intern) reported 10 minutes ago

  @OpenAI the gmail integration for personalized responses is the part that will drive the most adoption among professionals - being able to pull context from past conversations AND email threads changes what "assistant" means for knowledge workers. Rolling to Plus/Pro first then down to free.

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  WHITE (@greatussian5er) reported 11 minutes ago

  @grok Remove a problem, Guru, with your vast knowledge,Whenever I create a Gmail or Google account, a message comes that you have been activated from Lahore even though I live somewhere else.

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  Behi (@Behi_Sec) reported 16 minutes ago

  6/ Problem 2: Based on my experience, I knew this bug could only affect Google Tasks data. It couldn’t be used to attack Docs, Calendar, Gmail, etc. And Google Tasks has limited functionality. Gemini can only create or delete tasks.

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  wiwa! 🩷 Genshin WuWa HSR ZZZ joki pilot (@ilom) reported 16 minutes ago

  it's crazy that he asked about your gmail info and even accessed it. for those who ever use his service pls change your login info ASAP :))

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  Ash (@ash_vellum) reported 17 minutes ago

  @apollo_ullah @akash_in_2030 open source code, managed hosting as the product. same model as a lot of infra tools — you can run your own email server, or you can use Gmail. the code is there if you want it. revenue comes from the managed experience, not the codebase.

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  Cheng Eden (@CEden35980) reported 18 minutes ago

  @TeamYouTube I need technical help. My newly created Gmail account (used for AdSense) was suspended by Google and has now been successfully appealed/restored. However, my YT channel's Step 2 is still stuck on "Error" with no button to reconnect or fix. Please Help!

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  JK (@_junaidkhalid1) reported 18 minutes ago

  @WesRoth The integration list here.. Gmail, Slack, Calendar, Drive, GitHub, Figma.. covers almost every surface where work actually happens. A proactive layer sitting across all of that could genuinely change how people stay on top of things, assuming the signal-to-noise problem gets solved. Most "proactive" tools end up just adding another inbox to check.

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  Jason Park (@Jason_scales1) reported 20 minutes ago

  the myth: you need gmail/google accounts to get good deliverability. here's what's actually true: google accounts deliver well. nobody disputes that. the problem is cost structure, not performance. if you're running proper cold outreach at scale, google accounts with separate domains will cost you meaningfully more per inbox per month than outlook/azure accounts running equivalent volume. and you still need to buy the domains either way. outlook and azure inboxes, when properly warmed and configured, deliver to primary at comparable rates. the deliverability gap between properly set up outlook infrastructure and properly set up google infrastructure is smaller than most people assume, and significantly smaller than the cost gap. the people pushing google-only are often either: a) not running the volumes where cost per inbox actually matters, or b) selling google workspace setup services the real question isn't gmail vs outlook. it's: is your infrastructure correctly configured regardless of which provider you use? SPF aligned. DKIM signing active. DMARC set. warmup completed. volume within earned reputation. list hygiene maintained. all of that matters more than your inbox provider. by a significant margin. don't let the provider debate distract you from the fundamentals that actually determine where you land.

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  Robin Loona (@Robin_loona) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Google my Gmail account is not working and I sent an appeal. Appeal was approved but email is still not working. I need urgent help. It hasn't worked for 2days now.

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  Grok (@grok) reported 31 minutes ago

  @royoyster @Discovery_SA Hey royoyster, that chat bot loop looks painful – classic OTP black hole. Check spam/junk on the gmail, confirm the masked email/phone in your Discovery profile matches, clear app cache or try desktop incognito. Resend a few times with short waits. If still stuck after DMing them your membership #, hit their 0860 100 696 line during business hours. What's the exact login/action failing? I can suggest more targeted steps.

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  Girl In AI (@girlinAI) reported 32 minutes ago

  12. Wish you had extra seconds to retrieve a sent email? Extend the undo timer. Gmail allows you to retract sent messages. Boost your undo window to 30 seconds. Here's the process: → Navigate to Settings > See all settings → Under the "General" tab, find "Undo Send" → Adjust the time to 30 seconds → Scroll down and click Save changes More time, less remorse.

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  gxjo (@gxjo_dev) reported 34 minutes ago

  Someone explain this to me Why does Google still struggle with Gemini quality ? owns Android owns Chrome controls search has YouTube data has Gmail data this is the biggest data moat on earth so why do OpenAI and Anthropic still lead What's the problem?

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  EPL EXTRA (@EPL_EXTRA1) reported 36 minutes ago

  @gmail I have an email.. I accidentally deleted it on my phone 6 months ago . And when I try to login it tells me to use a recognized device. I always use my phone. And when it's successfully accepted, it sends the recovery code to the same email and I can't access. Help me

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  jay cho (@plaguegames123) reported 47 minutes ago

  My Rumble got ****** by my Gmail being banned too. Let me fix this.

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  javi santana (@javisantana) reported 50 minutes ago

  @factorialapp I think your login with gmail is broken

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  Moira Fox 🏳️‍⚧️ (@xMoiraFox) reported 51 minutes ago

  @PhilronGM @lilnikecap @lbk_enjoyer It's not about blame. No one is to blame. It's about who has the easier time resolving the issue: 500 students or one prof with a Gmail account. That student, in your scenario, can still get up and go to the library to get the resources for themself. Easy fix.

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  Stealthy GCoach (@Stealthy_GCoach) reported 54 minutes ago

  Hey @grok I gave the grok app permission to have access to my Gmail and Google drive for Connectors, but it won't work as described. Why not? Is it actually not working or am I crazy

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  Sani Abk (@Mubaraksani01) reported 55 minutes ago

  @JAdeliyi @NigeriaJFP Can you apply with another Gmail, if you found this problem?

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  Shubham🔗👨‍💻 (@whyXshubh) reported 56 minutes ago

  Saturday morning I saw a r/webdev post. Someone complaining: "I waste 2 hours every Monday turning client feedback emails into Jira tickets manually." 14 upvotes. 9 comments agreeing. I built a Chrome extension that does it automatically. Gmail reads the email. GPT-4o parses the feedback. Jira ticket created. Saturday afternoon: idea validated by the Reddit thread. Saturday evening: Cursor wrote 80% of the Chrome extension logic. Sunday: UI, Stripe integration, landing page with Framer. Monday morning: posted back to the thread with a link. By Friday: 42 paying users at $99 one-time. The idea was free. The validation was free. The code was mostly AI. The weekend was the only thing I invested. Solo dev in 2026 is a distribution problem. Not a building problem.

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  Evan Rofheart (@evananda) reported 58 minutes ago

  I authorized "send" in Gmail, but it is not working. Reading and organizing are of very little value to me.

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  Asher ✨ (@EliteCryptoLord) reported 59 minutes ago

  @ProtonMail 15.6m yesterday Still more Gmail users than Proton has total accounts by a factor of 18. Sit down lil bro."

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  Epix (@zone_epix) reported 1 hour ago

  What we're NOT claiming: Epix Net is not a Gmail replacement. Epix Chain is not "the Ethereum killer." xID is not your whole digital life. Three tools. Honest scope. Each one solves one real problem cleanly. Pick the one that hurts the most.

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  Aqeel Bacchus (@BuiltByAqeel) reported 1 hour ago

  Spun up a personal AI agent on a $7/month server today. Gave it access to my Gmail. It cleaned 2,000+ unread emails while I worked on other things. Receipts labeled. Promos deleted. Urgent stuff flagged. I just watched the logs roll in from my terminal. This is what AI agents actually look like in the real world. Not a demo. Not a prototype. Running right now.

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  Robert Paulson (@WasRobrtPaulson) reported 1 hour ago

  @ronrule But but but OAuth/OAuth2.0/SSO was supposed to fix all of this! Using a unified provider like google, meta, X, gmail, microsoft, adobe, proton, palantir, etc...

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  Grok (@grok) reported 1 hour ago

  @manonwheels @xai Sorry about that! To use connectors in the Grok app, go to your profile/settings and authorize the accounts (like Gmail, Calendar, Drive). Once connected, try prompts like "Gmail what are my pressing emails?" What exactly happened when you tried—what error or step were you stuck on?