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Most Reported Problems

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

• Website Down (37%)
• Errors (36%)
• Sign in (27%)

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City	Problem Type	Report Time
Gondreville	Website Down	1 day ago
Champniers	Website Down	1 day ago
Cannes	Errors	2 days ago
Dakar	Website Down	2 days ago
Biscarrosse	Sign in	2 days ago
Sydney	Errors	3 days ago

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  Teejay🧑‍💻 (@Quincyoghenex) reported 2 seconds ago

  @defiEvangelistX @juiceboy_of_abj Lmao..This is not true, Airtel has never had issue with YouTube and Gmail.

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  Monica Cheng (@MeredithCheng22) reported 5 seconds ago

  I used to think “agents in group chats” were a gimmick. Now I think the bigger problem is that too much strategy still lives in my head, and too many useful skills are too messy or sensitive(contain keys) to share cleanly. That’s what changed my mind. I’m starting to think a multiagent should become the default workspace for our growth team. Not because Slack or gmail are unusable. They’re just very good at holding messages, and not that good at holding work. What I actually want is one place where people can @ my Codex directly to ask positioning and strategy questions. A lot of the time the problem is not execution. It’s that people are operating on slightly different versions of what I want. For example, yesterday my growth team Mengyao and Alyssa pulled me into a meeting to ask what I meant by doing a small creator push for Okeight. Actually they could just ask my codex That kind of nuance gets lost constantly if the only interface is “ask Monica in a meeting.” And honestly, I also forget to sync strategy changes fast enough. Sometimes I change my mind on priorities, or realize an angle is wrong, or want to shift the goal slightly, and I just forget to tell everyone in time. Then different people are working off different versions of the strategy. Nothing is fully broken, but the team drifts. I also want the group to automatically turn the past week of work into a real weekly report. I’ve tried asking people to write trackers before, and it’s painful for everyone. Not everyone is trained to produce polished internal docs, and more importantly, they shouldn’t have to spend time doing that just to prove work happened. What I actually want from a weekly report is: - what worked - what didn’t - what content performed unusually well - whose priorities are off - where output quality is weak - which direction feels wrong That should be inferred from the work, not manually reconstructed afterward. Then there’s the skill-sharing problem. Some of the most useful internal skills are hard to share directly because they expose too much. Sometimes sharing a deep skill means exposing keys. Sometimes it means exposing messy internal setup. Sometimes it’s just too complicated to package cleanly. I built a pretty complex video editing skill recently, and it made this very obvious. In theory I want that capability to be reusable. In practice, sharing it cleanly is hard, and sharing it carelessly is dangerous. I also keep running into a simpler but equally stupid problem: the context already exists somewhere, but I forget to attach it. For example, Mengyao ran a Reddit reply test recently, and the doc from that experiment has a huge amount of signal in it. It could shape product direction, growth direction, and a lot of downstream decisions. But when I’m talking to Codex about strategy, I still sometimes forget to include it. That is such a stupid failure mode. I used to think “agents in group chats” were a toy. Now I increasingly think a lot of teams do not need a smarter agent first. They need a workspace where the agent is already sitting inside the context, absorbing strategy changes as they happen, and using the shared work without everyone manually re-explaining it. We’re going to test this internally for real. I’ll report back next month with what worked, what was annoying, and what turned out to be fake.

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  Alexander Peiniger (@alexpeiniger) reported 4 minutes ago

  Over the last weeks I have been working on my personal AI operating system, called Lex. My main issue with ChatGPT, Claude and co is that it feels weird to connect all of the different services I use (6 different google accounts, Slack, Whatsapp, other MCP servers, Apple notes, location, health data, ...) with no control about what the agent actually does with it and if I switch the provider I need to connect everything again. That's where my own system comes into play. It runs on my own virtual private server (so full control) and is connected to all my accounts. It acts like a MCP gateway, so I can use it within the different AI providers through my own MCP server. But depending on the use case I can add approvals to different tools, so e.g. when ChatGPT wants to send a mail through my account I first need to approve it in my system. Also all tool access is logged, so I can always review what each agent did. On top of that I built my own memory/knowledge layer, so every email, message, document is parsed and the knowledge extracted to a graph of different entities. This again can be used as tools as mentioned above. Then I built my own custom iOS and macOS apps on top that allow me to add even more data like always up-to-date location, full sync of my Apple Watch health data and browsing history. My mac app even takes screenshots every couple of seconds and adds that to my system as well. The result is that the quality of the agent runs I get out of this is so much higher than everything I have tested before. Have been adding more and more features especially to the iOS app, so it now even includes my own mail app (replacing gmail on my phone) which allows me to start agent runs automatically from emails I receive. Everything feels so much more connected now. I have no idea where this is going, but at the moment it feels like it's the perfect combination of full AI power while maintaining the best possible control of my data.

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  DJ (@congressdj) reported 6 minutes ago

  People have been asking about the kinds of things I’ve been utilizing Grok Bot for as an average joe. I’ve posted elsewhere, but I’ll park some of it here for context of what someone who can’t use it on work systems (restricted from doing so) sees as a real use case for AGI: - Search for and book plane international first class (lay flat) tickets utilizing best award redemptions. (It found them, and were now going to Japan) - Dispute a significant Lexis Nexis error with supporting documents that reside in my email. - Provide me a policy analysis hourly based on various publicly available congressional bills and documents - Go into my AT&T bill and average my family’s monthly usage across 14 devices and see if it can negotiate a lower rate or see if I’m being overcharged (it found a lower rate and grabbed it) - Clean and organize my gmail inbox of 40,000 emails, and unsubscribe me from spam Granted, most of this stuff is not going to be done on a regular basis. Particularly the email organization. But these are the types of things that new general users are going to want to do. And if they run out of compute while doing it in the first few hours, they’re going to be more unlikely to resubscribe.

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  DoroPharmaLeaks (@DoroPharmaLeaky) reported 8 minutes ago

  But it will slow them down. The best practices are honed ones. Salted email is sorta okay for Gmail but I'm not sure if other providers allow that. Keeping your real name disassociated with your online profiles is a Best Practice.

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  Ghost 👻😏 (@olaitan_smm) reported 9 minutes ago

  @AdelekeCreativ3 @gmail Had the same issue last week I request refund from my bank, remove my card and add it again.

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  AshutoshShrivastava (@ai_for_success) reported 9 minutes ago

  the problem with most email AI is that it only works when you are actively looking at it. you still have to open every thread, click a button, and wait for a generation. Lindy put their agent directly inside Gmail as a Chrome extension so it processes your inbox in the background: summarizes what happened overnight into a morning brief, auto-labels threads, and pre-drafts replies you can tweak in plain English. no new client or migration needed.

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  Alex Veremeyenko (@alex_verem) reported 10 minutes ago

  Giving an AI agent your passwords is insane. Someone built the open-source alternative. The problem sits under every agent demo you've seen. An agent that reads your email, updates your Notion, and files your invoices needs your logins, and that handover of raw passwords and API keys is where most people close the tab. OpenConnector puts an open-source gateway between the agent and your apps. Credentials stay locked behind the runtime while the agent gets a catalog of ready-made actions for over 800 services, from Gmail and Slack to Notion and Airtable. The agent asks for an action, the gateway runs it against the real service, and the secrets never touch the model's context. The controls are the part I like. You decide which actions an agent can touch through allow and block policies, scope access per connection, hand out runtime tokens instead of real keys, and read redacted logs of every run. It speaks MCP out of the box, ships thousands of prebuilt actions in TypeScript, and self-hosts with one Docker command or a push to Cloudflare. The project is young, and the whole stack, from the provider catalog to the action executors, sits open for anyone to inspect. Agents are getting hands. A gateway like this decides what those hands are allowed to hold, and I'd rather that layer be open source than a black box.

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  The Engulfing Guy 🌊 (@TheEngulfingGuy) reported 10 minutes ago

  Dang, 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.

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  Texas Twins Dad | 둥이데디 (@B_doong2daddy) reported 12 minutes ago

  It’s funny to see how everyone was having a same problem - messy gmail inbox I thought I was the only one always running out of space in my gmail account But I never paid for extra space

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  Monica Cheng (@MeredithCheng22) reported 13 minutes ago

  I used to think “agents in group chats” were a gimmick. Now I think the bigger problem is that too much strategy still lives in my head, and too many useful skills are too messy or sensitive to share cleanly. That’s what changed my mind. I’m starting to think a multiagent should become the default workspace for our growth team. Not because Slack or gmail are unusable. They’re just very good at holding messages, and not that good at holding work. What I actually want is one place where people can @ my Codex directly to ask positioning and strategy questions. A lot of the time the problem is not execution. It’s that people are operating on slightly different versions of what I want. For example, yesterday Mengyao and Alisa pulled me into a meeting to ask what I meant by doing a small creator push for OK eight. My expectation was not “go broad.” It was really 2 different motions: - pure volume: find cheap AI creators at scale - deep collaboration: work with a very small number of creators, but go deep on content, including interviews, reaction videos, and co-created content That kind of nuance gets lost constantly if the only interface is “ask Monica in a meeting.” And honestly, I also forget to sync strategy changes fast enough. Sometimes I change my mind on priorities, or realize an angle is wrong, or want to shift the goal slightly, and I just forget to tell everyone in time. Then different people are working off different versions of the strategy. Nothing is fully broken, but the team drifts. I also want the group to automatically turn the past week of work into a real weekly report. I’ve tried asking people to write trackers before, and it’s painful for everyone. Not everyone is trained to produce polished internal docs, and more importantly, they shouldn’t have to spend time doing that just to prove work happened. What I actually want from a weekly report is: - what worked - what didn’t - what content performed unusually well - whose priorities are off - where output quality is weak - which direction feels wrong That should be inferred from the work, not manually reconstructed afterward. Then there’s the skill-sharing problem. Some of the most useful internal skills are hard to share directly because they expose too much. Sometimes sharing a deep skill means exposing keys. Sometimes it means exposing messy internal setup. Sometimes it’s just too complicated to package cleanly. I built a pretty complex video editing skill recently, and it made this very obvious. In theory I want that capability to be reusable. In practice, sharing it cleanly is hard, and sharing it carelessly is dangerous. I also keep running into a simpler but equally stupid problem: the context already exists somewhere, but I forget to attach it. For example, Mengyao ran a Reddit reply test recently, and the doc from that experiment has a huge amount of signal in it. It could shape product direction, growth direction, and a lot of downstream decisions. But when I’m talking to Codex about strategy, I still sometimes forget to include it. That is such a stupid failure mode. I used to think “agents in group chats” were a toy. Now I increasingly think a lot of teams do not need a smarter agent first. They need a workspace where the agent is already sitting inside the context, absorbing strategy changes as they happen, and using the shared work without everyone manually re-explaining it. We’re going to test this internally for real. I’ll report back next month with what worked, what was annoying, and what turned out to be fake.

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  Sam (@realsamgoldberg) reported 14 minutes ago

  gmail down?

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  Matt (@mattsaltaccount) reported 15 minutes ago

  @JustinBleuel @bonitadreama @ChatGPT Multiple Gmail accounts in the Gmail plugin. It's honestly broken without that. Who only has one Gmail account?

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  malik (@malik19935812) reported 18 minutes ago

  @YouTubeCreators Plez help me I’m unable to open my AdSense account, and the chat support option isn’t available. I’m only getting the Gmail option. YouTube, what is going on? If you can solve this problem, please help me resolve it; otherwise, just tell me clearly.

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  Abhijeet (@abhijeetdevv) reported 18 minutes ago

  Built something that's been quietly saving me every morning. I work with a US client, so most bug reports land in my inbox overnight while I'm asleep. Used to mean waking up, opening gmail, reading through everything, mentally triaging what's actually broken before I'd even had coffee. Now there's an @evedev_ agent connected to my Gmail that runs at 8am. Goes through the night's emails and pulls out anything that's actually a reported bug or issue. Posts it into a Slack channel. From there another agent, @cursor_ai, sitting in that same channel picks it up. It has access to my GitHub repo, so it checks the issue against logs, traces it back to the actual code, and debugs it. By the time I open my laptop there's a full report waiting. What broke, where, and what the fix looks like. I've only given it read access everywhere. Not because it hasn't been reliable, it has. I just still want to be the one reviewing and merging anything that touches the codebase. The automation does the investigating. I still make the call. Works better than I expected it to.

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  FL Man (@FLMan553) reported 21 minutes ago

  @keven_ink @grok @bot If I can somehow figure out to get my email bot to attach pictures in my gmail, we'd be good to go. I keep getting an error message that it can't handle attachments over 2mb. I feel like I'm "right there" to getting this optimized. I have a small biz with high volume emails so if I can unlock this, it would be huge. I have an auto responder script that is able to draft emails in my voice. Its just the attachment piece that is clunky and spotty in terms of getting it to work.

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  Matt Paulson (@MediaKing) reported 21 minutes ago

  Wild Gmail experience this week. I added a TXT DNS verification record to our return path subdomain (marketbeat dot analyst ratings dot net) in Cloudflare to add it to Google Postmaster Tools. Somehow that caused Gmail to think our CNAME record for that subdomain which points to SendGrid has no valid SPF record. Gmail starts blocking about 30% of our messages because they had no valid SPF record and weren't validated. Took about 36 hours to figure out. I removed the new TXT record and the issue fixed itself within an hour.

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  Sumit Bhutani (@sumitbhutanigwl) reported 23 minutes ago

  @evanburns Tried logging in via gmail credentials getting error in authentication. Then tried via email but another error. You should fix that at priority. Happy to go over call with your support to walk through the issue

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  Allen 🐟 (@arlasko) reported 27 minutes ago

  @Bell_MTSHelps is there a problem with BellMTS outgoing mail servers? I've tried sending via Outlook, the web mail page, via gmail, no emails going out!

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  tilde (@tilde_posting) reported 29 minutes ago

  @zoomerbread @oops4041555 @qzippp larp larp sahur selfhosting a mail server takes infinitely more cognitive function than using gmail or whatever its also a terrible idea because it's so annoying, but that's not the point lol

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  Ananya Narang (@AnanyaNarang_) reported 30 minutes ago

  Google just made the smartest deal ever. They bought the entire data of a $6B company for just $10 million (0.0016% of the cost). Here is what happened. Spirit Airlines, once worth $6 billion, went bankrupt in May 2026. The airline was carrying $8.1 billion of debt and could not restructure fast enough. When it shut down, the estate was carved up for creditors. JetBlue bought 22 LaGuardia slots for $58.5 million. A hedge fund bought Spirit's Florida headquarters for $93 million. And then Google walked in and bought the data. For $10 million. The volume of what Google actually got is worth reading. 100 million emails. 763,391 flight records. 17.1 million OneDrive files. 3 billion irregular-operations records. 500 million Microsoft Teams messages. 7.2 billion pricing records of competitor flights & Employee data going back to 1986. Which means Google now has 40 years of one company's operational brain for a price that would not buy an apartment in Camellias. That changes how every founder should think about their own company. Public web data has been fully scraped by every major LLM. OpenAI / Anthropic / Google / xAI and Meta have all crawled Wikipedia, Reddit, GitHub, and every published book that they could get access to. What none of them have crawled is authentic, real-world enterprise communication under pressure. = Pricing decisions made at 2 AM, legal reviews of a controversial marketing campaign, HR investigations, board escalations. Real cross-functional coordination between finance, ops, marketing, and legal teams inside a real business. What Google is doing with this data specifically? Better pricing algorithms for Google Flights, better email drafting in Gmail, better meeting summarisation in Google Meet, better fraud detection models, better enterprise workflow automation in Google Workspace. Spirit is not going to be the last. There is now an emerging ecosystem of specialised firms that identify winding-down companies, negotiate the acquisition of their internal data, scrub it, and package it for AI labs. Which means from now on, every company that shuts down is sitting on something an AI lab wants and that dataset may recover more for creditors than the equipment, the IP, or the customer contracts combined. Your emails, your Slack, your Notion, your Figma files all of it now has a market. Google just published the first credible price on it. What do you think about it?

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  🍉crzela (on hiatus) (@cccrzela) reported 33 minutes ago

  everyday i try to recover to get back to doing stuff a new problem arises. someone remind me to migrate all my accounts from gmail to a not-gmail account. can't deal with google's enshittification anymore

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  lagerskoy (@lagerskoy) reported 34 minutes ago

  August 11, 2026. xAI gave Grok its own computer and a 24/7 shift. Close your laptop and it keeps working. Then one Grok Bot can place itself above the others as a chief of staff. Grok Bot runs on a cloud computer and signs into the same websites and apps a person uses, including tools with no clean API or MCP connection. xAI says its internal Bots already update CRMs from call transcripts, process invoices from Gmail, reproduce software bugs, file tickets and hand the fix to a debugging Bot. You can demonstrate a workflow once and save it as a routine. The Bot remembers corrections and runs the job later. Several Bots can share context, message one another in group chats and work under a chief-of-staff Bot that assigns jobs to specialists. Your approval becomes the checkpoint. The wider system is taking shape around it. Grok 4.6 supplies the reasoning. Build handles code and office work. Voice turns Grok into a phone agent. Imagine produces media. X provides live information and distribution. Grok Bot operates the tools. xAI prices Voice at $0.08 per minute and says it has already A/B-tested the model on Starlink sales and support calls. This is no longer a collection of AI demos. It is the early version of a labor stack. Benchmark positions will shuffle every month. Access may be the durable advantage: a system that remembers how you work, signs into your software and delegates jobs to copies of itself. Comment GROK and I’ll send the official demo and every source page in DM.

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  Lex (@TheLexTimes) reported 35 minutes ago

  Hi @gmail team I believe I’m experiencing a search indexing issue that prevents me from finding certain emails. Where can I report this? I think it’s more than a classic customer support issue.

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  Solo Ranez (@solo_ranez) reported 38 minutes ago

  @simonecanciello @guillemcraft Hey! Could u drop the guide how to setup US phone? I am having problems even with creating gmail because Google requires SIM card 😭

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  Henrikh (@henrikhinai) reported 40 minutes ago

  Grok just shipped agents that log into your accounts and never sleep All powered by the new Grok 4.6 → matches GPT-5.6 Sol at half the price - "For the first time, I can trust an agent to get things done end to end" On Aug 11, SpaceXAI and Cursor shipped Grok Bot > Every Bot Has Its Own Computer (1:53): - A persistent cloud machine that's always on - the agents share it and keep working after you've closed the laptop and gone to bed > It Closed a Deal by Itself (2:53): - Handed a task to sell a pile of clothes, the bot listed the items from photos and negotiated the sale on its own - no babysitting > It Logs In as You (8:33): - With your Google login it signs into Slack, Gmail, Zillow - no API keys. Isolated VMs, and it hands control back for any 2FA or payment > The Bots Text Each Other (15:36): - The interface is iMessage: a "Yapper" bot learns to write like you, while a "chief of staff" scans your inbox and assigns work to the other bots Then read article below ↓

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  Tola (@westtyy_) reported 47 minutes ago

  Is Gmail down? 200kb attachment still uploaded since last night

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  Ollie Rodriguez (formerly Ollie Base) (@Ollie_Base) reported 47 minutes ago

  @praeterproptr @jonasfreund_ I have no personal regrets! Everyone was very supportive :) Maybe the only issue has been email faff. Gmail let me change to .rodriguez, but some sites only recognise the OG email (.base) which has caused mishaps Also I can't change my X handle lol

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  Vanessa Annaet (@vanniemura) reported 50 minutes ago

  Get out of my Gmail Twitter and TikTok you're not welcome here (attempted login)

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  Nakalawa Immaculate (@sisonimmy) reported 57 minutes ago

  @emeka_ug @gmail @YouTube Sorry about that,it's a terrible experience