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 06:40 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 | 14 hours ago |
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Errors | 21 hours ago |
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Sign in | 22 hours ago |
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Errors | 1 day ago |
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Sign in | 1 day 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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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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ay☆づ° (@ynrvee) reportedHi @Google @Gmail, my account was restricted due to AI prompt issues. My appeal was rejected, but I have my very important competition files inside Google Drive. I can't even access Google Takeout to download them. Please help me recover my files.
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bagchasinkt (@Chris610708315) reported@discord_support @mrneedaband Is there a chance you can help me I remember the Gmail it trying to log back into my account which is the problem
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kvinsi (@kv1nsiii) reportedthere are people building an entire AI company on one shared computer right now and none of the coworkers have ever met each other i didn't believe it until i saw the demo myself, xAI just shipped this as Grok Bot, and every other AI tool you've used just became a chatbot next to it setup is 4 moves: 1/ download the Grok Bot app, works on phone too 2/ tap new bot, tap chief of staff, the first hire exists 3/ open your profile tab, go to plugins, connect Gmail, Google Drive, and Calendar 4/ point it at your company's Drive folder, that's the actual context a chief of staff runs on each bot signs into your real tools with your real login. it doesn't hand you a draft, it finishes the job inside the actual app the part most people miss: this scales past one bot. build a research bot, a writer bot, a chief of staff bot and they pass work between each other without you routing anything the whole roster shares one computer, one browser, one set of logins. sign in once for one bot and the rest are already signed in most people are treating this like a smarter search bar the ones who already set it up have a small team that never clocks out
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trophy. ꕤ (@ilytrophy) reported@TeamYouTube @Google @YouTube Please help me. They took out my 2FA authentication, recovery email, my phone number and passkeys from 2 of my gmail accounts. I can’t sign in due to the parental supervision they put on my gmails.
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Karlo Guevarra (@kpguevarra) reportedGmail seems to be down
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⋆˚࿔ 𝑪𝒉𝒐𝒄𝒐 𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 ⊹ ࣪ ˖ Ი⑅𐑼 (@Brownibrowni10x) reported@cararrowsolosss I might watch a tut... For now have my account yes I just made it because of my memory problems and lack of a stable gmail
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𖤓 (@_KarBer) reported@gmail @googlemaps Why off by default everything virtually while your competitors are neither ashamed nor do they shut down?
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Ravi (@gtrk) reported@iluvstocks1 @OptionsFunding_ I was looking for the email link from them to login through that which I'm still waiting for. But I logged in with my gmail account (same email that I provided) and now it asks me to "Open Account" again. Don't understand
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ʟɪʟʏ🧀ラザニア (@lilyofthedusk) reportedam I the only one having trouble with gmail on browser right now???
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LOONEY (@KraigLooney) reportedGmail constantly unthreading a 100 email thread in the middle of me replying to the most recent email is going to send me to an early grave, but somehow I appear to be the only one on the internet who has an issue with 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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17052 (@EggyySol) reportedNawa o @AirtelNigeria what’s going on with your network? For almost a week, youTube, gmail and every other google app haven’t been working on Airtel data. They work perfectly once I turn on a VPN. Even devices connected to my hotspot are having the same issue
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John Siers (@JohnSiers7987) reportedThe scammers are getting better (well, maybe not better but smoother and more polished). Just got an email from a person who claimed to be an executive and senior editor for W. W. Norton -- an actual publishing company based in New York. The email started by praising my latest book (not one I wrote 15 years ago, as so many have done) with enough detail to show familiarity with the content. Funny, though, it sounded like the same kind of glowing praise for my work I get from ChatGPT (wonder if that's what the scammers are using to summarize books). Said they want to talk to me about "my broader body of work and the projects I might currently have underway" and noted that if I have an agent they would "be happy to continue through them." Gee... sounds great, doesn't it? Couple of problems, though. I actually went to Norton's website to see what they publish. It's a broad range of stuff but includes ZERO science fiction or fantasy. Further, Norton must be aware of what's going on because their website has a page warning about publishing scams and advising that any emails from them will come from their email domain -- first thing I checked, as I do with any suspicious emails, and this one didn't. But hey, like I said, smoother than usual -- this one didn't come from gmail or yahoo or any of those, just a domain that was a permutation of the sender's name. It was very nicely written, though, no problems with spelling or grammar, not demanding or promising anything, just a "we like your work; let's talk." It also reeked of AI generation. Like I tell everybody... I have no problem with AI technology, actually think it's pretty awesome. I just don't like the way people are using it.
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Jason Diamond (@jasondiamond) reported@AnnieJacobsen It’s a Gmail vs Govt mail issue not some big conspiracy. Everyone calm down.
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duncan (@dchana) reported@giffmana @gmail I have something Id like you to ask Google do. Fix the stock price please.
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BIAST Archives (@BIASTArchives) reportedOur contact information is true, you can messages us on Gmail for biast archives, aswell as maybe a potential discord server? We might not do that, since it might appear as "Unprofessional" to our boss.
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lowkey_anp (@lowkey_anp) reported@awilkinson Then why is superhuman a hyper successful product? Should’ve just used Gmail no? Same logic goes for loom vs Mac native screen recordings and so on. Clearly Wispr is a well thought product, only issue is latency is **** recently
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Crypto Addict (@crypto_adictt) reported@staywithneo_ @NekyoNFT @teddi_speaks I use Gmail since tweet link not working
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Ashutosh Singh (@0xAshutosh) reported@Google You have an extraordinary amount of money, infrastructure and engineering talent — and I expect more. Alphabet generated more than $403B in revenue in 2025. Search & other advertising alone generated over $63B in Q4, while YouTube surpassed $60B in annual revenue across ads and subscriptions. Alphabet is now worth roughly $4.2T, with GOOGL around $342. You already have Search, Gmail, Android, Chrome, YouTube, Cloud, Pixel, Gemini, Waymo, Tensor, Maps, Drive, Workspace and countless other products. But having more products isn't the goal. I can run my own mail server 24/7. I can deploy APIs, databases, cloud infrastructure, AI models and websites. What I expect from a $4T+ company is something much bigger: Build products people genuinely want. Build products that solve problems millions of people actually have. Build products that become essential not just another product added to the ecosystem. You have the resources to build the future. So build the products people are waiting for.
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MasterBlasterMedia (@MBMediaHQ) reported@KEWLV1C @TeamYouTube Yo @KEWLV1C try this The owner should use Google Account Recovery from a device, browser, and location they previously used with that account. Google can use previous passwords, devices, recovery information, and other account history to verify ownership. Do not rely only on the normal login screen if the attacker changed the password or added their own security key. Because the Google account is connected to YouTube, also use YouTube’s hacked-channel recovery process. If the channel is in the YouTube Partner Program, contact YouTube Creator Support as soon as possible. For AdSense, report the account as compromised and gather proof of ownership, including: Original Gmail address YouTube Channel ID and URL AdSense Publisher ID Previous passwords Old recovery email/phone AdSense payment records Bank/payment information Tax documents Old YouTube or AdSense emails Approximate date the hack occurred The hacker having a security key does not prove ownership. It only means they registered another authentication method after gaining access. Once Google restores the account, immediately remove unfamiliar security keys, passkeys, devices, recovery information, and third-party access. Change the password, enable your own 2-Step Verification, and check AdSense payment information for unauthorized changes. The most important thing is to start recovery quickly and preserve screenshots and emails showing what was changed. Trying to help if anyone can get in touch with v1c give him this. He probably has it but every little bit helps.
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BizKnowledge ᛤ (@BizKnow1edge) reported@_Auza_ @baseapp That’s kinda impossible tbh from a pdf file unless you gave up a seed phrase.. The reason I’m saying is bc Gmail would instantly ask for a 2 factor - also Gmail sends notifications of attempted logins / password requests to YouTube. Gmail auto blocks any Gmail login attempt / change from a different IP - I don’t really know you, but I can tell you right now that’s sus
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Sophia Orthoi (@SophiaOrthoi) reported@hfakos @Alonso_GD The sad conclusion: use gmail to reach and be reached by most of people. The one that hinders reachability and rejects mail from private servers. Something similar, or more acute, is the problem with the banks.
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💫 (@earthwolf_13) reported@discord Hi Discord Support, I’m unable to log in to my account because I’m not receiving the login email or password reset email in my Gmail. I also don’t remember my password. Could you please help me regain access to my account?
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Tigger 🏳️🌈🌈 (@TiggerStan01) reported@AceTrainerLiam I've also had this happen to me. Its been an on going issue. My Apple & Gmail accts have been under regular hacking attempts as well as other accts of mine even ones I re-enable or start new. I get multiple alerts of ppl trying to log in or change passwords from across the globe.
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Alex Garcia (@alex_here_now) reportedI'm having a cloudflare issue I think I should speak to a cloudflare person about. What's up: I built an entire setup in my personal gmail before getting my work email. I'd like to transfer basically everything to the work email. This feelss... delicate.
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Michael Pepper (@M1CHAEL_PEPPER) reported@TechnicallyTee I set my calendar to sync to my gmail account. It syncs between Apple’s Calendar app and Google Calendar. Never had any problems. Just make sure all of your events that you want to sync are added to the calendar under that email address and they’ll show up on Android, iOS, iPadOS, macOS and even Windows if you set it up to.
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trophy. ꕤ (@ilytrophy) reported@TeamYouTube @Google @YouTube Please help me. They took out my 2FA authentication, recovery email, my phone number and passkeys from 2 of my gmail accounts. I can’t sign in due to the parental supervision they put on my gmails.
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NHGal (@djjsilkfarm) reported@SecKennedy Got a new response from support (I did tech support for most of my career...I'm available if you need a truly responsive rep). Here is their newest advice with my response to them: Did you test it with a Gmail email account? Did you test it with MY EMAIL? On 8/19/2026 10:37 AM, Cure Support wrote: Dear CURE ID User, We are so sorry to hear that you are having this problem. We have tried to test and replicate the issue but have not had any errors. Thank you very much for bringing this issue to our attention; we will do everything possible to improve the CURE ID authentication process. In the meantime, you can sign in and access CURE ID using your Google account. 📷 📷 Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank You, CURE Support Team
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Frodo 𒉭 (@frodothecat_) reported@LukeberryPi not gonna lie, I used once at work to get a solution for a bug in the browser, and another time to teach my boss how to solve problems when I'm not there lol, but I use the gemini AI in the gmail to help me organize and summarize emails