Gmail status: access issues and outage reports
Problems detected
Users are reporting problems related to: website down, sign in and errors.
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.
September 7: Problems at Gmail
Gmail is having issues since 05:40 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 (39%)
- Sign in (32%)
- Errors (29%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 21 minutes ago |
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Website Down | 23 minutes ago |
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Website Down | 29 minutes ago |
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Website Down | 37 minutes ago |
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Sign in | 40 minutes ago |
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Website Down | 1 hour ago |
Community Discussion
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Gmail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Steven Pu (@reedvoid) reported@pitdesi Summer of 2004 I built an app that used gmail attachments as cloud file storage, I called it Goggles. I showed it to a few classmates who worked at Google, they told me to shut it down immediately b/c I'll get sued. Keep wondering what've happened if I didn't listen.
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Sherif Oyedeji (@sherif_oyedeji) reportedYour business can be doing real work with real clients and still lose a prospect tonight because they searched your name and found an old number, an empty Instagram, and a personal Gmail address. They won't tell you. They'll just go quiet. We fix that at ORAC Partners.
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AI Mastery Guide (@aiseomastery) reportedChatGPT finally supports multiple Gmail accounts. No more logging out. No more switching tabs. No more half-pictures of your schedule. You can now connect multiple Google accounts side-by-side to read emails, calendars, and contacts all at once. Here is how to set it up in under a minute: 1. Open ChatGPT and go to plugins/settings. 2. Tap the gear icon on Gmail. 3. Select "Connect another account" and sign in. Stop checking your inbox manually. Let AI do the triage.
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Ankit Agarwal (@kumarumt) reported@theo Account risk is the silent pricing factor. A Gemini ban that nukes Gmail and Drive is not a product outage, it is personal catastrophe. Labs that want builders will separate model access from identity, or lose the default to anyone who cannot afford that downside.
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Altr (@altrhorizon) reported@XFreeze the recovery piece stands out to me most. for longer tasks across multiple PDFs + MCPs like Gmail, Notion or Google Drive, losing progress to a token or network issue would be rough. that kind of resilience matters a lot more as agent workflows get longer!
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JC Christopher (@JCChristopher) reported@RealMarkHe @bot I'm a Grok Heavy user, so honestly I have not had any issues. But I will acknowledge that I am not using it for certain things that take a lot of tokens: I am not programming a website or application, building a database, or cleaning up my Gmail (I'm retired, so I don't give a damn about email, one of the perks of retirement). I am using Bot the way 90% of the public would likely use it, as employees and confidants.
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Axia (@axiatechie) reportedIf someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵
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Julian Goldie SEO (@JulianGoldieSEO) reportedChatGPT can now read ALL your Gmail accounts at once. Work inbox. Personal inbox. That old one you forgot about. Until this week, it could only see ONE. The rest were locked out. That just changed. And barely anyone noticed. Here's the setup (it's stupidly simple): Go to plugins. Pick Gmail. Click the gear icon. Hit "Connect another account." Sign in. Done. Repeat for as many accounts as you want. Calendar and Contacts work the same way. Now try this one prompt: "Review my emails and give me a summary of the last 3 days." It reads everything. Tells you what matters. Tells you what to handle FIRST. No inbox dread. Just a clean starting point. And the questions that were impossible a week ago: "Find that email from Sarah." Work or personal? Doesn't matter. It checks both. "What do I still owe replies to?" Across every account. One answer. "When am I actually free this week?" Both calendars. The REAL answer. No double-booking. Two smart habits: Start with read-only permissions. Let it summarize first. Open up sending later, once you trust it. And name the inbox you mean. "Work inbox" gets you a clean answer, not a mixed one. The biggest win isn't the summaries. It's never logging out and back in again. Stop checking your inbox. Let your inbox report to you.
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JovanHuttonPulitzer™ אני לא סובל טיפשים! (@JovanHPulitzer) reported@stelzner_n1150 This has to be the stupidest comment ever sorry. 100% of cell phones, smart phones, cable boxes, electric meters, computer usage and email GOES THROUGH DATA centers and always has! Here are the facts: That claim is backwards. The internet and smartphones have always run on data centers (or the same thing under older names: server rooms, colo, hosting farms). What changed is the size, location, and branding — not whether the machines exist. The internet never ran without servers Commercial internet use took off in the early 1990s. From day one it needed: ISP modem banks and backbone routers Web/email/DNS servers Co-location and hosting facilities Those are data centers. Exodus, AboveNet, Equinix, and telco “carrier hotels” were already packing raised-floor rooms with racks in the mid-to-late 1990s. Google’s first big custom plants and Amazon’s early AWS rooms were 2000s expansions of that model, not a new species of building. You could run a static homepage off a PC in a closet. You could not run search, streaming, maps, payments, or “the internet” as people actually used it. Smartphones made the dependence worse, not optional The iPhone shipped in 2007. A phone is a thin client. Almost everything people treat as “the phone” lives off-device: iCloud / Google account sync Maps and traffic App Store / Play Store Gmail, Photos, Drive Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Spotify Siri / Assistant Banking and payments That traffic hits someone’s data center. If those rooms went dark, the glass slab in your pocket would still make calls on a good day and not much else. Twenty years of smartphones is twenty years of more backend compute, not twenty years without it.
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Deanna (@DBaddie85) reported@TodaysNewsco I don't get why his Dad is so mad? Why the delayed reaction to the new gmail login? Is this real or fake for money?
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Robotrout (@traut21) reported@ProtonSupport still not receiving emails from any linked external accounts (Gmail) since the outage.
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dx80834 (@dx80834) reported@SmugAlana Honestly get rid of Gmail. Move to something like proton, somehow noticed friends have less issues with account security when they moved their emails from Gmail.
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FRĒĒ-GÛY$ (@Ondo_Pickin) reported@jamb_hq Issues of Gmail
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Sukhwinder | Ecom Email Marketing (@HeySukhwinder) reportedYour customer didn't compare you in a spreadsheet. They compared you in Gmail - against the brand that emailed them yesterday. Your Klaviyo overview is not the shelf. The shared inbox is. Open a dummy address. Join 3-5 competitor lists. For two weeks, write down: how often they write, whether they sound like a person, whether every send is a sale. Don't steal their discount cadence. Don't steal their product tiles. Don't steal the fake "team" voice. Steal the gap. They never explain how to use it. They never put a human name on it. They never admit a miss. That's the room you can occupy. Stop guessing what "good email" looks like. Read the inbox your buyer actually lives in - then sound like the brand that isn't yelling. P.S. Have you built a brand that's fun, engaging, and makes 5+ figures a month on Shopify? Want to turn email into a community-powered revenue engine - without boring, robotic emails? DM me 'GROWTH'.
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MostlyHarmless (@harmless_human) reported@rallynate @kbean511 There has probably been a data center near most of them for years and they didnt know. Where do they think netflix and youtube video is stored and all the photos on grandma facebook and gmail account they never delete anything from? The real issue is the mega computer centers running AI programming that shouldnt even be called data centers.
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Pers (@0xPerser) reportedGave Grok Bot a real assignment: run parts of my business like an actual employee, not a chatbot answering questions. First mistake, immediately corrected. I almost had it spin up its own Gmail account — Google's already catching and disabling Gmail accounts created by agents like this. Switched to AgentMail instead, since it's already a listed plugin in Grok Bot's browser. OAuth, three minutes, 24 email tools live and working. For payments, Stripe has a live MCP server — the agent can create customers, issue invoices, run transactions, all through plain language, no custom integration built by hand. Before any of it touched something real, I wrote the rules first. What it's allowed to read. What it's allowed to send. What it's allowed to spend, and the exact caps. What needs my approval before it happens. One command that shuts the whole thing down if I need it gone. Passport first. Rules second. Never the other order. The mistake almost everyone makes isn't giving an agent too much access. It's giving it access before the rules exist to contain it.
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Mirza (@MiirzaBaig) reportedis gmail down?
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web3 whale (@web3_whale001) reportedIf you see this ... do this real quick Login your account on web and see if your password still works If it doesn't change your Gmail password first Them proceed to change your X password Check your apps and sessions to see if there's any unfamiliar session Check the date and time.. if its not you kindly logout the device from your session Stay safe o 🙏
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nivak (@nivak86) reported@ryanvogel iCloud for personal with my own domain gmail for my company with many aliases Namecheap server for tertiary site emails
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Michael Secret 📱 Electronics Etc (@rmeestudios) reportedWhat would Hangouts and Duo look like if Google didn't shut them down? Simply log in with your Gmail account! Get video calling, typing indicators, payments through GPay, location sharing, and more. Default to SMS and RCS with no Gmail account. Polished and uniform. @GoogleDesign
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Pam Kassner (@pkassner) reported@MSFT365Status My test emails from gmail to my ms/godaddy email continue to fail “because the remote server is misconfigured.”
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Amine (@halalmails) reportedFounders think BFCM prep starts in November By then it’s already too late Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook don’t judge your emails on Black Friday. They judge you on what you’ve been doing in the weeks leading up to it The emails you send this month decide whether your November campaigns land in the inbox or rot in spam If you email subscribers who open and click, better placement, more opens, better reputation. The loop pays you If you blast a full list that mostly ignores you, promotions tab, then spam, then a reputation that keeps sliding. The loop bleeds you By the time Black Friday hits, the loop is already locked. You can’t fix it in a weekend What to actually do this month: → Send only to subscribers who opened or clicked in the last 90 days → If above 40% open rate ibcrease to 120 days if less decrease to 60 days → Exclude Marked as spam, unsubscribed, dropped and suppressed atleast once overall time. → Keep sending consistently 3-4 a week, 80% designed, 20% plain text →Clean your list every 2 weeks Black Friday is won in the weeks most founders spend ignoring email
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Spencer (@sfdtx92) reported@ProtonSupport Will any emails to Proton email accounts or Gmail email accounts linked in the app that were sent during the outage eventually come through?
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Nate Tucker (@natetucker) reportedGmail search is broken. We're building an AI assistant which lets people talk to it. It tries to look up contacts by the name it hears. 60% of the time it failed. The reason it failed was because we were learning on Gmail search. Gmail's search doesn't understand that words can sound alike. It only matches from the start of a word, caps how many results it returns, and doesn't sort by how relevant a result actually is. Somehow it gets worse, because the old matching would grab any word containing the letters you typed. Searching for "Dr. Stevens" could match the "dr" hiding inside "Sandra" or "Pedro," and one of those wrong matches would often win. We got fed up and built our own directory instead.
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Jordan Wiens (@psifertex) reported@Zoom Oh! I remember the other problem. The "send a code" button is super slow. Yes, I checked my spam folder. Took several minutes to come through. To a gmail domain. It also produces a captcha error every time you click the button even after you've already clicked the captcha.
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KIM YEE (HAW) 🤠 (@kimyeehaw) reportedpersonal work Gmail got hacked and all recovery options were changed with no way back in. Every MFA was on and didn’t get a single notification that there was a suspicious login or anything was being changed. highly sensitive client info on there HELP @Google @gmail
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Lukas Caha (@lukas_caha) reported@lingxi @bot To be more specific, using the Gmail connector bot has huge trouble sending multiple screenshots from app he just made to my own Gmail. I thing he could make an app for doing this 10 times in the time it took him to use Gmail to do it (unsuccessfuly).
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special k | CEO of stressed out era (@specialkdelslay) reported@Reboticant they got me too bc they blocked my entire gmail acc. it has taken me days just to get it down by 25% bc they rate limit and throttle whenever u try mass deletion. Drive/photos backups take 5+ days, I started one like 3-4 times and then 5 days go by and I forget that ****. the link expires. I repeat. trapped by google award.
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Bhagyesh (@bhagyeshsp) reportedMost of the SaaS software we use have a major flaw in them and most people aren't aware of it. I'm not going to breadcrumb you to read the full writeup. The main flaw is that there's no pause button. We can't pause our account. That's it? You might think. But think about all the SaaS software you use on a daily basis, which is almost 100% of all software. Take an example of Gmail workspace. If you've been using it (which is a SaaS), the moment you stop paying, your account access is gone. And if you don't pay the subscription (aka ransom), you lose your data and work. All modern SaaS platforms are aimed at keeping revenue alive. And I understand that economic need. But that doesn't mean I agree with this practice. That is the reason, for all my clients at Sisyphus Consulting, one of the most important filters used in services and advisory is: can we press breaks without losing data? That is one of the problems I wanted to address. So, we launched Self-hosted Software Management service almost a year back. It is our end-to-end service helping businesses setup, scale and maintain their own open source applications and servers. The ability to pause the whole setup, stopping the monthly billing and still retaining ownership of the accumulated data, is one of the things that I'm proud of offering. The interesting matter is that, most of us do not think about this. Because none of the major SaaS providers offer this pause button. What we don't see, we don't think about. Out of sight, out of mind. For example, have you thought about having your free Gmail account emails having physically backed up on your own device or server? I too, hadn't thought about it few years ago. We build our entire work and life around a Gmail account and we don't even think about owning our emails. Almost a year back, finally I switched to Thunderbird, backed up all of 10k+ emails of past decade in a readable, open format. Now I have no worries about Gmail going down tomorrow. It is crazy how many things the modern SaaS business model has taken away from us: ownership, longevity, interoperability and joy of using the same tools for years.
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Thomas O'Connor '62 baby, #GodBlessAmerica 🇺🇲 (@TheyCallMeTomO1) reported@MSFT365Status I have been down since 9:00 a.m. this morning! I own a IT technology business and I need to have my email up and running. Unfortunately, I had to use my Gmail account with a disclaimer at the bottom of the email saying that Microsoft's email was not working and therefore that's the difference in the email address. It is not acceptable for this to be down! Microsoft is big enough to handle any situation that comes down the line and this is a perfect example of Microsoft not keeping up with whatever happened. Was it an update? I don't think so! Was it a hack? I don't know! FIX IT!