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.
August 17: Problems at Gmail
Gmail is having issues since 02:00 AM 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 (36%)
- Sign in (26%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:
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Website Down | 2 days ago |
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Errors | 3 days ago |
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Sign in | 4 days ago |
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Website Down | 4 days ago |
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Website Down | 4 days ago |
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Gmail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Shae Feltz (@ShaeFeltz) reported@shownotover Pretend Gmail has a giant wall of light switches. Most switches start OFF. Every time someone makes a real Gmail account, the computer flips a few switches ON for that username. It doesn’t write the whole name down — it just flips a few switches using a secret code. When you type “CoolKid123”: The computer looks at those same few switches. If any of them is still OFF → the name is 100% free. You can have it! If all of them are ON → the name is probably taken. (It might be wrong once in a while, so Gmail double-checks the real list really quickly.)
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Jobescape (@jobescape_ai) reported@Think_momental @gmail @Yahoo Sorry you’re having trouble signing up! 🙏 Please make sure your email is entered correctly and try again. If you’re still unable to register, we recommend checking access availability in your region.
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depressed oilers fan (@skew_70) reported@gmail Fix yesterworlds monetization
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osinachi997 /cryptoprof. $TOR (@osinachi531313) reported@Access_Chain New users can't register again... Gmail registration not working
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ْ (@Ibrr2him) reportedHello team, my account is disabled and I’m unable to sign in. My appeal was already approved via email, but I still get ‘Too many failed attempts’ when trying to verify. Please help me recover my account at the earliest. @Google @googleaccount @gmail
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David Wampamba (@davidofug) reportedQuick weekend update on my Agentic AI journey. For the first time, my Personal Agentic Assistant(PAA) has sent me an email. What happened? 1. We audited my X account. 2. We agreed on the primary niche. 3. The PAA came up with the topics and content plan. 4. It stored everything in a file. 5. Sent me an email with the file attached. Token costs? Less than $0.45 Challenges: 1. The file format is Markdown. I would prefer a Google doc or Google sheet because I want to be publishing on the go and Markdown files don’t offer the good User Experience on Smartphones. 2. Setting up Google Authentication for the Agent. This is required to ensure secure communication between the agent and gmail. I used the Google App password option. Kudos to Google this doesn’t require a Google Cloud setup, reducing the friction. 3. The file is stored on the same server where the agent lives and this leads to storage competition. What next? Setting up a workflow to maintain the security, updates and upgrades of 2 CyberPanel servers. I will share Updates 🔜 Stay tuned. If you want to learn how to make effective Agentic Assistants for your personal and business needs, I train people like you at an affordable price in days if not hours. Contact Me
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Antid (@antisadh) reportedSOMEBODY AT ANTHROPIC WROTE THE GUIDE THAT KILLS THEIR OWN $200 PLAN AND SHIPPED IT TO THE PUBLIC COOKBOOK, 122,500 TOKENS OF NOISE PER QUERY AND THREE LINES OF PYTHON THAT DROP IT TO $20 00:12 the header flips red, WINDOW OVERFLOWED, and one line resolves at the bottom of the frame, "you are almost certainly on layer 2, the model never read 98% of what you paid to send it" slack, gmail, drive, the crm and 31,440 repo files stream 1.9 million tokens at a 200,000 window, signal holds at 18,000 and noise at 122,500, anthropic's own team named this context rot and shipped the fix into their public cookbook raw dump = 140,500 tokens, $2.11, 47s per run -> RETRIEVE k=20, rerank, keep 4 -> 82,300 tokens, $1.24, 31s -> COMPACT old turns to decisions, drop transcripts -> 34,800 tokens, $0.52, 19s -> CLEAR used tool output -> 18,000 tokens, $0.27, 11s -> same answer, 8x cheaper, 4x faster i ran it against my own stack for a week and counted what actually landed in the final answer, 20 chunks retrieved, 4 survived the rerank, 0 got cited, 0 got verified against source, 0 triggered a human check, that last column is the part nobody screenshots my take and it's the arguable one: every account arguing about graph engineering this month is stuck on layer 2 and paying $200 a month to prove it, the same work runs on a $20 plan the second those three lines are in the pipeline the window is open, follow and bookmark before it closes
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solana steve (@stephenjohnii) reportedmy personal gmail was hacked. I lost access to my @coinbase and in order to get the funds out of my old account and into my new one, I need to verify my identity. here's the problem: I have tried a dozen times to verify my identity for my new account and I keep getting an error message. I am following each step perfectly. I am exchanging emails with @CoinbaseSupport What am I doing wrong? Has anyone experienced this issue before?
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Eze (@thenewpersone) reported@mymannemcee @JibriHashim Is this your main issue or are there others? Because for this issue specifically, that’s on Gmail.
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Furbix Tubs (@0xFurbix) reportedA few weeks ago I realized I had applied to about eight roles and could not tell you, without digging through Gmail, who I had followed up with and who I had forgotten. So I built a Zapier automation to fix it. It logs every application automatically. I BCC myself with a consistent subject line, Zapier catches the copy, uses AI to pull out the company, role, and date, and writes it into a tracking sheet. The harder part was the follow-up logic. A daily check looks at everything still marked "Applied" and only acts on rows sitting past a week. Sounds simple, except Google Sheets returns all rows bundled together, not one at a time. My first few tests compared every application against every date at once and returned nonsense. Had to add a looping step to split rows apart before the date math and filter could evaluate each one properly. Once a row passes that filter, I get a reminder email telling me who to follow up with, and a second AI step drafts the follow-up itself. It does not send automatically though. It lands as a draft. Tracking and remembering are automated. Deciding what actually gets sent to a real person stays with me. Small annoying problem, but it taught me a lot about where automation helps and where it should not go all the way.
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Hitesh (@Hitesh9998) reported@enough_yt The mail delivery on Apple is quiet slow for me. I have switched to Gmail
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Harshil Tomar (@Hartdrawss) reportedhow to plan a full AI product without the chaos (wayfinder by @mattpocockuk) in <30 Steps : 1. start with one concrete outcome, not a vague idea 2. weak: "build an AI sales tool". clear: "founder connects gmail, agent finds qualified convos, drafts follow ups, asks approval before sending" 3. that one sentence becomes the filter for every decision after it 4. most vibe coded builds skip this and start typing prompts immediately 5. 3 days in the database model has already changed twice 6. onboarding has 4 different half built versions 7. the agent has no clear boundaries on what it can and cant do 8. frontend is stuck waiting on backend decisions that were never made 9. claude ends up rewriting code it shipped yesterday 10. wayfinder's fix: work backwards from the destination and list every open question blocking it 11. for an AI product that means asking what data the agent can access 12. where does company context actually live 13. what can the agent execute without a human in the loop 14. how does a user inspect the agent's reasoning after the fact 15. how do retries and failures get handled 16. what counts toward paid usage 17. each open question becomes a ticket instead of a random note in a doc somewhere 18. some tickets block 5 others sitting behind them 19. example: you need to define agent access before you can design approvals, logs, or permissions 20. wayfinder surfaces which questions can actually be solved right now 21. that's the frontier. claude gets one clear next decision instead of grabbing the easiest feature in the repo 22. every ticket gets tagged HITL or AFK 23. HITL is founder judgement or a real business tradeoff, pricing lives here 24. AFK is research claude can run alone off docs, APIs, the codebase, oauth limits live here 25. one session resolves one decision and updates the map. nothing more 26. resolving gmail scopes usually reveals the approval rules 27. approval rules reveal the activity log 28. the activity log reveals the database model 29. claude keeps the reasoning attached to each decision so the next session isnt guessing why something was built that way 30. once the fog clears run /to-spec then /to-tickets and split remaining work into things agents can run in parallel Hope this helps !
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Davon (@DavonEuw) reported@TeamYouTube Hello. I have an issue where a google/youtube/gmail account is hacked. The hacker has activated parental controls on the account, and also removed all 2fa methods, so it is now impossible to recover through ordinary means. Please help!
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TheIfeanyi_Williams (@theluxuriousgra) reported@AirtelNigeria it will never be well with you people... I can't update any of my app I can't Access my Gmail I can't watch anything on YouTube I can't do anything Fgs... I have to use someone else's hotspot to know what exactly the problem is jesussssss Are you people maddd
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The King (@Youtube_pr0) reported“This channel is dead.” I hear this way too often. A channel isn’t necessarily dead just because it stopped getting views. There are 3 completely different things people call a “dead channel.” 1. INACTIVE You stopped uploading for months. That’s not death. You simply stopped giving YouTube and your audience new content to respond to. 2. MISALIGNED Your channel built an audience for one type of content… then you suddenly changed the niche. Now your existing viewers aren’t interested in the new videos. That’s an audience mismatch, not necessarily a dead channel. 3. ACTUALLY UNDERPERFORMING You’ve consistently published quality content. You’ve tested different topics. You’ve improved your thumbnails and titles. You’ve studied retention. And after a meaningful number of attempts, YouTube still isn’t finding an audience for the content. That’s when I’d consider starting fresh. But here’s the mistake: Someone gets 30 views. Panics. Deletes everything. Creates a new Gmail. Starts another channel. Gets 40 views. Then says: “YouTube hates my account.” 😭 Bro, you didn’t have a dead channel. You had a strategy that hadn’t worked yet. Before you abandon a channel, ask: Is the channel dead… or is the content? Those are two VERY different problems. So says the King. 👑
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Skaly_Bull (@Skaly__Bull) reportedThe demo everyone shares is the morning report The line worth reading is one field above it Bot name: Inbox Job: owns his Gmail, triages, drafts replies for approval Runs the pipeline audit every day at 8:20 while he is still asleep It does not have his data It has his login Now put that next to this year's receipts 341 malicious skills in a rival agent's public registry Roughly 12% of the whole catalog 135,000 instances sitting exposed on public IPs Whatever the bot can reach, a mistake can reach too The approval gate is the only thing left between them And it is only as good as the line you drew before the first run The risk was never a wrong answer A wrong action is Full breakdown below
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Mark's Yesterworld (@Yester_World) reportedForgot to put this into my video about how @Google is destroying the way I make a living (see previous post)....but this was the 'helpful' advice I got directly from The Google Support Team recently: "Unfortunately the process is automated and we have no input on it. We cannot influence it in any way and there is no escalation path to take to resolve this on our end manually, your only option is to wait and try again." So let's break this down: @Google falsely suspends my Gmail account that I've used with my YouTube channel's AdSense for 10+ years, claiming it was "created by a bot". I appeal, win the appeal, restore my account...then because of this same error, it's suspended again. Then, because of a glitch they have admitted to being aware of, one that countless others are forced into, I'm locked out the account so I can't even appeal again. Every day this is causing financial devastation to the way I make a living, using THEIR faulty service, but they offer no way to resolve it other than "wait and try again". This has been going on for over a month...how much longer, @Google, would you like me to wait? FIX THIS!
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tobias (@tobiastornros) reportedWhen I give access to my personal gmail in @bot it seems to be exposed to my @cursor_ai account.. So what stops Cursor agents from readming my personal emails when doing work? (enterprise account) with Github login...
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Hridoy "OFC" (@Hridoyback) reported@chokmahxbt Unlock badge not working Daily gmail login Daily task not working
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Proton Mail (@ProtonMail) reportedGoogle is shutting down Gmail's "Send as" feature for third-party addresses. If you send from your Outlook or Yahoo account through Gmail, mark your calendar: January 2027. 🧵👇
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Mark's Yesterworld (@Yester_World) reportedForgot to put this into my video about how @Google is destroying the way I make a living (see previous post)....but this was the 'helpful' advice I got directly from The Google Support Team recently: "Unfortunately the process is automated and we have no input on it. We cannot influence it in any way and there is no escalation path to take to resolve this on our end manually, your only option is to wait and try again." So let's break this down: @Google falsely suspends the Gmail account that I've used with my YouTube channel's AdSense for almost 10 years, claiming it was "created by a bot". I appeal, win the appeal, restore my account...then because of this same error, it's suspended again. Then, because of a glitch they have admitted to being aware of, one that countless others are forced into, I'm locked out the account so I can't even appeal again. Every day this is causing financial devastation to the way I make a living, using THEIR faulty service, but they offer no way to resolve it other than "wait and try again". This has been going on for over a month...how much longer, @Google, would you like me to wait? FIX THIS!
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Ven. G.V. (@Bhante_GV) reportedif you have issues with registration please inform. gmail and icloud sometimes block our emails.
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Tikare Abimbola Kafayat (@TikareK) reported@UtdCecee @Betkadio Seems they're scammers, the real issue here is we've inputed our nin and gmail. I hope they won't start entering our accounts
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Dromoral6241 misses Jax (@dromoral6241) reportedGlitch never replied to my gmail about my Orbsman with the detached weights TuT how should I glue them back on?
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rr🧃 (@justspacebaby) reportedAnyone having issues with accessing their Gmail?
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Giorgio Baglioni (@gbaglioni93) reported@KenWattana @TownAI was my favorite. I loved opening up gmail and all of my emails were organized and had solid drafts ready to go. I also liked being able to talk to it through Whatsapp. I did find the UX of the website a bit confusing but the main issue was when I stopped using it, I didn't find myself rushing to get it back
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Kristian Ortiz (@Krisortiz350) reported@gmail problems with Gmail new incoming emails no longer bolded?
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Eric Nevala (@Slayemin) reported@solopribuilds You can just do a radix sort and just walk down the character tree until you find a terminating leaf node. Responsiveness depends on how much back and forth message traffic Gmail wants per character entered.
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Anaesthesiologist (@DocR_B) reported@gmail Dear Team, my Gmail is not working on my android phone. I've cleared cache but it's still not working. Please help.
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Supersocks (@iamsupersocks) reported@petergyang @X the sign in with Gmail