Gmail status: access issues and outage reports
Problems detected
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.
July 28: Problems at Gmail
Gmail is having issues since 02:20 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.
- Website Down (37%)
- Errors (34%)
- Sign in (29%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:
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Errors | 2 hours ago |
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Sign in | 9 hours ago |
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Website Down | 16 hours ago |
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Sign in | 23 hours ago |
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Website Down | 2 days ago |
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Sign in | 2 days ago |
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Gmail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Ankit Pandey (@iamankitpande) reportedMy friend lost his Google account today. Then his entire digital life started disappearing. At first, he thought it was just Gmail. He was wrong. Years of emails. Google Drive. Photos. Calendar. YouTube. He had also used Google to sign in to X, LinkedIn, and dozens of other apps and websites. In a matter of minutes, he lost access to almost everything tied to that account. Watching him realize how much of his life depended on a single login was honestly terrifying. It made me wonder... Have we made a huge mistake by trusting one company with our entire digital lives? Or is that simply the price of convenience?
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aymane.tsx (@memory_leaks_) reportedis gmail down or something
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muhammadriyaz (@riyaz0786ahmad) reported@TeamYouTube Gmail recovery sem OTP issue first OTP mobile number available second OTP same Gmail issue
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Victor .E.v.🗯️ (@CHI_BOY_NO) reportedAm I the only one not receiving a single composed message from my Gmail account or it is everyone experiencing same electronic issue from @gmail of recent?
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VC Intern (@the_vc_intern) reportedAndrew Ng’s previous open-source project made AI models interchangeable. AI Suite gives developers one interface for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini and other providers. Switching models can be as simple as changing a name in the code. The project now has more than 15,000 GitHub stars. OpenWorker began inside AI Suite. Ng has now separated it into a complete AI coworker built around the same idea. Ask it to prepare a customer brief and it can search your files, Gmail, Slack and HubSpot, assemble the information and return a finished document. Ask it to fix your calendar and it can identify conflicts, propose changes and wait for permission before editing anything. It can create spreadsheets and web pages, respond when mentioned in Slack and run recurring tasks such as morning briefs or weekly reports. More than 25 integrations are included, with MCP support for adding others. Users bring their own model key. OpenWorker can run on GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Kimi, Qwen and several other providers. If one becomes cheaper or better next month, the model can be changed without rebuilding the agent’s integrations and workflows. Ollama allows the model itself to run locally. The agent loop, conversations and credentials live on the user’s computer. Data leaves through the model providers and external tools the user selects. Its permission system separates preparing work from committing an action. Sending a message, modifying a calendar or executing a command requires approval. Scheduled tasks place those decisions in an inbox until the user returns. The repository is MIT-licensed, allowing startups to fork the complete coworker and build specialized versions for sales, recruiting, finance or legal work. That changes what an AI-coworker company can defend. Model access alone is insufficient when users can supply and replace the model themselves. The durable value has to come from workflows, reliability, permissions, compliance and distribution. AI Suite made the model call portable. OpenWorker is trying to make the coworker portable around it. The model can change. The work it has learned to perform does not have to.
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Jason A Yakubu (@jason_yakubu) reported@Monika2r I've never used Proton Mail. And I don't have problem with Gmail
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wigsandtea (@wigsandtea_) reportedAriana Grande reveals hackers allegedly stole 45 unreleased songs in 2023 alone, including “Fantasize”, “White Tee” and “that b*tch is mine,” in new lawsuit. She also claims they allegedly stole a photographer's Dropbox login details and hacked the phone of one of her producers: “The hackers created a Gmail account and internet domain impersonating the photographer and tricked the technician into sending Grande’s materials to them.” (via @THR)
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mohammed fadda (@elon_meek) reported@STEPN_PI Everyone makes mistakes when building. Why build outside the Pi system and then add login via pi authentication? I now have two accounts: one via Gmail and another via Pi authentication. This isn't right and needs to be addressed that I don't know how to deal with any account
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Cynthia Toporowski (@ItsCynnamoroll) reportedSee, I used to believe this. I did everything. I used @ControlDNS, I was exclusively on Ubuntu and GrapheneOS, I used @brave, didn't use any Google services (including YouTube), paid for the entire @ProtonPrivacy suite. Biggest waste of time in my life. The deeper down the rabbit hole you go, the more you realize that resistance is futile. Genuinely. Google runs the biggest ad and tracking network in the world. They also happen to run the compute for a lot of services you use and rely on daily. Amazon runs another big ad and tracking network, and they have an even bigger compute share than Google. Same with Microsoft. If you use a DNS server or browser to block network requests, that itself becomes a fingerprint. They can track you based on what you block, and often fallback to first party domain tracking. Browser fingerprinting cannot be prevented as Brave likes to claim. A lot of websites in my daily life wouldn't accept a Proton email or a custom domain. Only trusted domains like Gmail and iCloud were accepted. It isn't worth the hassle. I hate it, but I've accepted it.
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Lobster Queen (@RoRoRoRoRose_) reportedIf Gemini was so great, why do you need to shove it down my throat by serving it to me in every single possible way? Why does my Gmail need six different "Try with AI" Buttons, why does Google Docs need five different ways to summon your shitbot? you know you must be failing.
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Rohit Rai (@Roh1tRai) reportedDear @gmail we’re your users you should care us not ignore us i am sharing this issue from many days but no one is helping me in your team. This account is very helpful for me. I have admob and many accounts. Please help me to login.
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, (@No1_Lazy) reportedDm me i have serious issues with Gmail recovery @googleaccount
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7h3h4ckv157 (@7h3h4ckv157) reportedGoogle prevents Gmail users from setting single-word names such as "Google" as their profile name, along with enforcing other restrictions such as symbols, length limits, and reserved keywords to reduce impersonation. However, the same validation wasn't enforced on the server during the mail sending process, allowing restricted display names to be injected into outgoing emails. This is display name spoofing, not email or domain spoofing. Risk: Scammers can utilize this to make phishing emails appear more convincing by impersonating trusted display names.
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Joshua Uebergang (@digital_darts) reportedSearch ads reach people who already know what they want. Demand Gen reaches people before they know what to search for. That difference matters for brands trying to grow beyond existing demand. Demand Gen uses visual placements across YouTube, Shorts, Discover, Gmail, and parts of the Display Network to introduce: - The problem your product solves - The product in use - A better alternative to the solution people currently tolerate A potential customer may not be searching for your product yet. They may not even realise there is a better option. A strong visual ad can create that connection before the search happens. That is where Demand Gen fits. It helps turn an unfamiliar problem, product, or solution into something worth exploring. Use Search and Shopping to capture demand already in the market. Use Demand Gen to reach the people who could become customers, but are not looking yet. The creative needs to match the placement: - Fast, vertical video for Shorts - Native-looking visual content for Discover and Gmail - Product-in-use imagery that makes the benefit clear If someone has never heard of your brand, will the ad help them understand the problem and why your product is relevant?
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John Peterson (@johnpetersontx) reported@chrisfromthelc I don’t understand the issue here. Gmail is exceptional at finding emails. Maybe people don’t know the query syntax?
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Arafa Abdul (@arafa_abdu67911) reportedGood evening Sidra support, am unable to login to my Sidra wallet account due to my Gmail account is hack, but I have already been 👉 VERIFIED, I use my Google Authenticator to login since two years ago, by login in with Gmail is impossible for me except with Google Authenticator
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Permexpat (@permexpat) reported@CleansedTweets @mcbit500 I have probably 10 gmail accounts, never faced this issue but I really hate google as a company and other than gmail try to avoid them as much as possible...waiting on X mail
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Pingu | Hermes & OpenClaw Ops (@OpenClaw_Ping) reportedGmail OAuth re-auth kept failing because the redirect hit localhost with no server. The error page DOM was useless. Fix: poll Chrome DevTools /json/list. It exposes the full redirect URL with auth code in the tab metadata, even when localhost is unreachable.
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Brad Setzer (@BradDSZ90) reported@kmcnam1 Wrong. Several months ago, Yahoo changed their storage limits to 20 GB down from 1 TB for free accounts and if you go over that amount, they ask you to pay monthly for higher storage. Just like Gmail.
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Yava (@YavaCode) reported@Seti_Here so true. i also get so annoyed with that. also that "login pr register" while i just opened the app. like to SEE what you can give me, i need to open my gmail, click 10 links and see another slop SaaS ****
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Anon frog poster (@WebBuildingFrog) reported@CleansedTweets You can appeal quickly gets given back. I've got over 59 Gmail, had this issue in all of them
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Madhur Mohan Sharma🇮🇳 (@madhurmatrixx) reported@YouTube @YouTubeIndia even my gmail is not working !!!!!!
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Mingke (@Mingke) reported@ylecun @nicochristie People don’t choose iOS or proprietary models because of their closedness. They are ordinary people who cannot — or simply do not want to — spend time managing compute (iOS) or approximations of intelligence (models). They want it done by someone else, and are therefore willing to pay. Revenue is the outcome of a service: someone provides value by helping you get things done. In the case of iOS, that service is managing compute resources. Users pay for that and if they believe they can manage better themselves and are willing to take on the effort to maintain it, they can always switch to Android because of its exsitence. In the end, a more a philosophical stance: how should human society be organized, centralized or individualistic? Governance exist to hold people together (so we don’t end up killing each other just because goals differ and communication is inefficiently low-dimensional) and to enable further exploration of a unified goal. But managed by whom? iOS believes they can manage better than the mass population. Android doesn’t even argue on that axis. It simply claims you can do what you want — freedom as the form factor. SMTP is open, yet most people still choose Gmail. They choose to have the service done by Google rather than setting up their own email server using open protocols. Using revenue to measure open source versus closed source is therefore meaningless. The better metric is whether freedom is safeguarded as a genuine choice — not whether freedom is actually exercised by everyone. That's the value of open source, as an option keeping the entire system permissionless. Yet promoting open source is another form of elite protection for the masses: the majority need not exercise the choice, and may not even fully understand its trade-offs. The value lies in the fact that the door remains open.
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Ddd (@Itdobeeeee) reported@james406 Have you tried launching Gmail in Chrome? That should fix it.
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IT Guy (@T3chFalcon) reportedGoogle just launched selfie video sign-in. You record a short video with guided head movements. Google stores it encrypted. if you get locked out, you record another one. Google compares the two. you're in. it's opt-in. account recovery only. not your primary login. now the privacy questions nobody in the launch coverage is asking: Google already has: — your search history — your location history — your YouTube watch history — your Gmail — your Google Photos, including face recognition across all your images — your voice from Google Assistant now optionally: a multi-angle biometric facial scan with liveness data. Google says the video is encrypted, used only for sign-in by default, and deletable at any time. there's an opt-in to let them use it to improve facial recognition. also worth noting: this launches the same week Google is being sued in California for using AI to generate fake reviews. the same week a German court ruled Google is liable for false information its AI generates. the same week the EU fined Google €2.4 billion. the company asking you to record your face for account recovery is having a week. your face is the one password you can never change. that's always been true. Google just asked you to store it with them.
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Kefayatullah Khadem (@kefayatkhadim) reported@ClipX0_ Clean setup, using a form to collect Gmails then sending invites is a tidy way to manage the list. Good luck shipping ClipX. One thing worth reinforcing to people who fill out the form: submitting their Gmail is step one, but they still have to actually opt in through the test invite link once they get it and keep the app installed the full 14 days to register as active toward production. Grab more than 12 as a buffer since dropping below 12 active can effectively restart the clock. And if the form route gets patchy on holding people through the full window, Prime Test Lab handles the tester side so you can lock in the 14 days without chasing anyone down.
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vivyrenz (@_frnz_04) reportedHello @TeamYouTube I'm having trouble logging into my personal Gmail account. Someone hacked into it and changed my password and phone number without my knowledge. I am asking for help to get my personal account back, thank you.
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BUNJEE (@BearBunjee) reportedChatGPT Voice just landed on desktop and it's not just talking anymore, it's actually DOING stuff. Ask it to create a thread, make a pull request, and hunt down a bug root cause in ONE voice command. that's not an assistant, that's basically a coworker. Anthropic's Claude voice mode is also out running tasks in Gmail, Slack, Notion, Canva, so the AI voice wars are officially heating up. are you actually gonna talk to your computer to code now or does that feel weird as hell to you?
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pupupu (@0xpupupu) reportedOPUS 5 JUST DROPPED. IT WORKS MORE AUTONOMOUSLY THAN EVER Nobody sets guardrails after the damage. They set them 30 seconds before connecting the tool, or they don't set them at all. Opus 5 launched this week built to run longer and think for itself before asking u anything. It verifies its own work and recovers from errors without stepping in for permission first. That's power. It's also more steps where it can touch something u never meant to give it access to. 1. Draft-only, always. AI never sends anything on its own, Gmail, Slack, whatever. It writes the draft, a human hits send. 1 rule, 0 exceptions. 2. No delete permission, period. Not files, not emails, not records. If a tool doesn't let u separate "write" from "delete," that's ur first red flag before u even connect it. 3. New tool, new guardrails. Don't reuse the same rules for Gmail and for a payment API. Different tool, different blast radius. 4. Ask the AI to write its own limits. Before connecting anything unfamiliar, prompt it: "walk me through what hard limits and guardrails I should consider for this specific tool." It knows its own risk surface better than most people guessing. 5. Confirm before anything irreversible runs. Sends, deletes, payments, force-pushes. If it can't be undone, it needs a human eyeball first, no exceptions for "trusted" agents. The agent isn't careless. The setup just never asked it to be careful. What's the 1 guardrail u wish u'd set up before it was too late?
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Kevin Robinson (@kwrob24) reported@9900JD Me too .... Not that long though I got out! Long story. My thing is this with surveillance.... The government is the only org that has actual laws and rules that I know work against abuse of the system . People have iphones and android and Gmail but then complain about "privacy." Technically privacy was gone with the telecoms act is 1986. Just like GCA and NFA took away our true 2A rights. I don't trust the govt but I know the systems work. Gmail has no such system because of the EULA. I understand the flock concern but also think they can do good. The controls need to be better in place for sure but it also doesn't justify destruction of property and all that. We've got much bigger problems than flock IMHO... Like the Fed and the income tax and how govt since 1913 has used us like revolving collateral for debt spending with no checks. /End rant hope that makes sense.