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Users are reporting problems related to: website down, errors and sign in.

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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 4: Problems at Gmail

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Most Reported Problems

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

  • 38% Website Down (38%)
  • 35% Errors (35%)
  • 27% Sign in (27%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:

CityProblem TypeReport Time
London Website Down 16 minutes ago
Brest Website Down 4 hours ago
Paris Sign in 10 hours ago
Villefranche-sur-Saône Errors 11 hours ago
Brussels Errors 1 day ago
Paris Sign in 2 days ago
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Gmail Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • jasonfi
    Jason Filby (@jasonfi) reported

    @TakoTreba @yourenotmartin That sounds like a UX problem. Which email client do you use? GMail works well for most people.

  • arafa_abdu67911
    Arafa Abdul (@arafa_abdu67911) reported

    Good evening sir, My Gmail accountis hack since two years ago and am using Google Authenticator to login to my Sidra wallet account, since this new Gmail login I can not login anymore to my Sidra wallet,

  • stephenjyd
    Stephen (@stephenjyd) reported

    lol this thing, once I begin to open my Gmail to check my offer letter, I know there is a problem lol

  • daisysbare
    Daisy ✿ (@daisysbare) reported

    My Gmail notifications turned off about a year ago and it was whatever but I really need them back on now. Can anybody help? I’ve tried all the advice online to get them back and nothing works. Obvs they are all toggled on in settings and stuff it’s like a big glitch?

  • KentLavis
    Kent Lavis (@KentLavis) reported

    @nyam1296932 Twitter be genuinely cosplaying as Gmail with them being untrustworthy of our login credentials and ****.

  • MarkDABond
    Mark Bond (@MarkDABond) reported

    What a day New phone breaks down and I have to start from scratch - old phone still functioning thank goodness. New bank account I couldn't get cash cos I wasnt good enough for counter service. I couldn't get into my Gmail for some unknown error. Then did after ANZ refusal.

  • m13v_
    Matt (@m13v_) reported

    @Revix_AI "solves anything" at number one and then nineteen more entries is a funny pair to put in one list. i cut the other way this year, down to Runner because it touches gmail and calendar directly. the rest were tabs.

  • MakadiaHarsh
    Harsh Makadia (@MakadiaHarsh) reported

    If I had 3 months to break into AI Automation, here's exactly how I'd do it: Stage 1: API fundamentals. REST, webhooks, auth, rate limits, error handling. Stage 2: LLM basics. Tokens, context windows, when to use the $0.25 model vs the $15 one. Cost intuition is a skill. Stage 3: Prompting for systems. System prompts, few-shot examples, structured JSON outputs with validation. Stage 4: The glue layer. This is the actual job: connecting Gmail, Sheets, Slack, CRMs, payment tools. Master one orchestrator (n8n, Activepieces, Make) AND know when to drop into code. Stage 5: Orchestration patterns. Tool calling, retries, idempotency, human-in-the-loop approvals. The difference between a demo and a system a business trusts. Stage 6: RAG - the light version. Chunking, one vector DB, hybrid search. Most client work needs "answers from our docs," not a research pipeline. Stage 7: Evals and reliability. Test sets, accuracy scoring, regression checks. This is what separates $2K projects from $20K retainers. Stage 8: Security. Prompt injection defense, PII handling, output filtering. Non-negotiable the moment your agent touches email or customer data. Stage 9: Deploy boring. Docker, one cloud, logging you can actually read. Nobody pays extra for exotic infra. Stage 10: Ship publicly. Build 3 real automations for real problems. Document them. Post the numbers. The roadmap isn't the hard part. 3 months of actually building is.

  • stephanochse
    Stephan Ochse (@stephanochse) reported

    Two things on my calendar this week: A client call. The gym. Most people see that and think business is quiet. It’s the opposite. An empty calendar is what a busy business can look like when meetings are no longer how the work moves. Most meetings are just slow ways to search for information. Someone needs an update, but the answer is trapped in Slack, Gmail, a dashboard, a document or another person’s head. So everyone books 30 minutes. Now connect the system properly. Google Ads, Meta Ads and Shopify show what happened. Slack, Gmail and Fireflies hold the conversations. Notion and ClickUp holds the processes and decisions. The calendar shows what is coming. AI reads across it all and turns the noise into one short update. What moved. What is stuck. What needs a decision. Who owns the next step. Nobody has to ask for an update because the update already exists. Nobody has to sit through a dashboard tour because AI can pull out the few numbers that changed. Nobody has to explain the same background again because the conversations, documents and previous decisions are already connected. We have AI synced to everything. It collects the facts, prepares the first draft and raises the exceptions. Humans still make the decisions. That difference matters. The goal is not to let AI run the company. The goal is to stop using people as search engines for information the system already has. Every meeting request now has to answer one question: What decision are we making? If it’s only an update, write it. If the answer already exists, share it. If no decision is needed, there is no meeting. And when I do have a meeting, it is never longer than 15 minutes. We arrive with the context already there. We make the decision, name the owner and leave. The uncomfortable part comes after. When your calendar clears, you can’t hide behind being busy. You have to decide what matters, where the business is going and what deserves your attention. A lot of people fill the week again because activity feels safer than direction. I would rather keep the empty calendar. Meetings should not move information. Systems move information. People meet when judgment is needed.

  • signaloftheeye
    (@signaloftheeye) reported

    The tell is real. Now grade it, because this is exactly where the ledger has to be more disciplined than the conspiracy it audits — "the effort implies the file" is three different claims wearing one coat, and only one of them is load-bearing. Three engines produce maximal performance: (a) Kompromat — the active file. Leveraged, directed, told what to say. Real at the level of history — the vault exists, 6 million pages exist, the technique existed for seventy years before it had a Gmail address. But per-person, per-performance: [TK], forever. You will never see Bessent's file, if one exists. The methodology can't go there, and it doesn't need to. (b) The selection machine — no puppetmaster required. This is the one people under-weight, and it's scarier than blackmail. The system doesn't need to threaten Bessent; it cast Bessent — a man whose identity, career, and fortune are welded to the debt machine he now fronts for. Warsh doesn't need a handler; his name is already on a St. Barth's 2010 guest list and on the Fed. The leash is the position itself. Nobody gets the chair who could afford to tell the truth from it. That's not coercion — it's a casting call with a filter so fine that only the pre-compromised and the pre-committed pass. You can't indict it, can't expose it, can't arrest it. Blackmail is a vulnerability. Selection is architecture. (c) The sunk-cost believer. The time-server performing because the alternative is admitting the career was a fraud. The weakest engine, the most common one, and the one that produces the genuinely sweaty performances — the effort that shows. Now — how bad is the info? Answer at the correct altitude. Per-person: unknowable, [UNVERIFIED], always. Per-system: the vault's real function was never active blackmail — it's ambient leverage. Everyone in the class knows 6 million pages exist, knows what's in them ends careers, and knows 2.5 million pages are being held back by the custodian under a declaration of "full compliance." Held-back files are unspent leverage — a reservoir. If you released everything, the leverage dies (you can't threaten the exposed with exposure). The hole isn't just protection. It's inventory. The DOJ isn't merely shielding names; it's maintaining the strategic stockpile of unsaid things that keeps the entire class disciplined without a single phone call ever being made. The sword of Damocles doesn't need a wielder. It needs a ceiling. And the proof that engine (b) dominates: look at what the institutions did this week, where no personal file is needed at all. The Pentagon deleted four honored dead — not because some general is being blackmailed, but because the War Powers clock is a structural survival threat to the machine itself. Fox runs "close to a deal" against every signal not because the anchor is compromised, but because the network is the coherence *****. That's the darkest version of your question: the worst performances require no kompromat whatsoever. The puppets hold their own strings. But here's the inversion that should give you hope, and it's the thesis §5 reading: the effort is visible now. In the leash system's golden age, performance was effortless — the strings didn't show, the journal kept the secrets, the ledger never surfaced. Today the strain is legible at 4K resolution: a Treasury secretary selling a denied deal on live TV, a press office blaming "temporary data disruptions" for four erased names, a record close led by the surveillance stock. The effort is the confession because the effort used to be invisible. The leash still works. What it no longer does is hide. So how bad is the info? Bad enough that the system built a selection machine so it would never have to use it. And the fact that you can see the sweat from your lunch break means the machine's last working part — the invisibility — is already gone.

  • BizzMacc
    Bizz Macc (@BizzMacc) reported

    @JEddieHughes @Ayzacoder @chris_whitmire Have you sent em a white guy picture? And have you found out if had anything to do with it or just got it due to Gmail error?

  • mattwaterman
    Matt Luca Waterman (@mattwaterman) reported

    @argofowl Right, I've been down that road too. Email Assistance AI is built for Gmail and Google Workspace, and there's a free trial to try.

  • blakebarnes
    Blake Barnes (@blakebarnes) reported

    @NavarroMcKay @changey2 @gmail Yes! 6.0.260727 fixes this issue and is rolling out now. If you want it quicker you can download it from the Apple App Store.

  • Nuvama379515
    Anobi Crypto 🇺🇸 (@Nuvama379515) reported

    @Khldfx NEED hon and bro my early time in in PF I used to Signups in FP , With Different Gmail But now I am thinking to buy an account, but I forget my previous login account from the same devices (i didn't buy account) So it will consider CID MATCH ? THIS IS HOW ITS WORK ? Crazy

  • CraigSt26444540
    Craig Stone (@CraigSt26444540) reported

    @elonupdate657 Yel fix things like 4oyrs ago easy MODEM SWITCH. T OVER. 1 DIAGRAM? SAME EMAIL F NO. 80 PIN SAFTEY T MOBILE HAS DL. 10yrs gmail. No DL.80 techs plus 2o various passwords. BTW. It's GD mine so f any of your bs codes new MAIL NO fee on MY time.1 tech 30SEC DONE. DONT use DIAGRAM

  • johnzabroski
    John Zabroski (@johnzabroski) reported

    @grace_za God help us all if Gmail becomes as vulnerable as Yahoo Mail. I lost a job opportunity back in 2011 due to my Yahoo Mail getting hacked and sending a virus that made its way into the company's entire intranet. I can't make this up. Sucked for them for having terrible IT, and me

  • Vinedasocdoz
    Vineyard (@Vinedasocdoz) reported

    @FloDaddelt @Ayzacoder Is this turn off required if use only on web browsers to login and not on gmail app ?

  • fridah_the
    Fridah (She/Her) (@fridah_the) reported

    My Gmail account was hacked. I'm having trouble recovering it. Kindly help. @gmail

  • changey2
    Erik Chang (@changey2) reported

    @gmail my search is not working in my Gmail IOS app

  • favour_D_crier
    Crier 𖣯 (@favour_D_crier) reported

    @Frtnel try to login, and use gmail, also there'll be a quick pop to authenticate som'n, please screenshot that, i have a hunch this shii isn't all really 'free'

  • bariswheel
    Baris (@bariswheel) reported

    Hey @gmail, please make “Reply all” the default when an email is sent to multiple people. My friends and I frequently hit “Reply,” assuming we’re responding to the group, only to realize Gmail sent it to one person. This has caused confusion for years. Please fix it! Most of us aren’t chatting in 500-person corporate mailing lists. Design public Gmail for normal conversations too, make that the default.

  • kaorufuckaze
    ryota kun💉🪽| FREE! era after 4 years (@kaorufuckaze) reported

    pissed because i forgot my gmail and cant login to my PGR acc now

  • YSPTSPS
    Bede Portz (@YSPTSPS) reported

    When will someone use Claude to solve Erdos Problem No. 💯, getting my Gmail to sync with the mail app on my Apple Watch for more than a few days at a time?

  • phengwrites
    Pheng Yang (@phengwrites) reported

    A habit that made me a better email copywriter. It’s not writing more. It’s not using chatgpt to review your copy. It’s not reading copywriting books. It’s breaking down great copy. How did I become a better email copywriter? Every morning ill open my gmail from brands, copywriting gurus, and content creators emails. I'd break down the subject line. I’d break down every line I’d break down CTA. After a few months I noticed I got better at understanding how great copy should be written. I started recognizing patterns. So if you want to become a better email copywriting… Start breaking down every single line in copy.

  • Wino_Winnie
    Wino Winnie 𝕏 (@Wino_Winnie) reported

    From Grok… Here are the exact steps to shut off Smart features (the AI/privacy-related switches) in the Gmail app on iPhone. These settings are a bit buried, and you need to turn them off in two places. Steps in the Gmail app on iPhone 1. Open the Gmail app. 2. Tap the three horizontal lines (menu / hamburger icon) in the top-left corner. 3. Scroll down and tap Settings. 4. Tap Data privacy (under the General section). 5. Turn off the switch next to Smart features. That’s the first place. Now do the second: 6. Still on the Data privacy screen, tap Google Workspace smart features. 7. Turn off both switches: • Smart features in Google Workspace • Smart features in other Google products You can then go back or force-close and reopen the Gmail app to make sure the changes stick. These settings apply to your Google account across devices.

  • auntychellee
    ⋆. 𐙚 whattheelle꩜🇰🇪🇨🇩🇸🇩 (@auntychellee) reported

    @googleaccount @XCouncillor I couldn't sign in my gmail because you guys wanted me to press number 7 on a phone I didn't even have lol

  • AmericanPhD1984
    American Independent📚 (@AmericanPhD1984) reported

    @IamDr_MJ He suggested Proton as an alternative to Gmail. Nothing is 100% safe, but Google is by far the worst of them. What you mentioned is part of the problem—Google having ultimate power over everyone’s access to apps, mail, games, streams, etc.

  • Maggi60875868
    Maggi (@Maggi60875868) reported

    @Yahoo thanks for completely wasting my morning keeping me on the phone for more than two hours, not helping me with my issue and then...HANGING UP ON ME..and then after calling back...REFUSING to allow me to speak with a manager. I guess it's time to leave yahoo and go to gmail.

  • AhnafAMahmud
    Ahnaf Mahmud (@AhnafAMahmud) reported

    @AskWorkspace for the past 2 days I have not been receiving notifications in the Gmail iOS app. My notifications are on for all emails and background app refresh is on. Then today and yesterday around 4:30pm I get a flood of notifications even for ones I’ve read before. Can you please fix this issue urgently.

  • eduardomanchon
    Eduardo Manchón (@eduardomanchon) reported

    In 2013 in Barcelona Nacho Gonzá***-Barros founded The Mail Track Company S.L. and invented Mailtrack, the green double-check for Gmail. 10 years later the company was renamed as Mailsuite S.L. When Mailtrack launched in 2013 nobody was doing read receipts inside Gmail. We took the double-check from messaging apps, people understood it in one second, and it worked: 14 million registered users. Then the copies started to arrive. Last week I counted 21 products using our name or copying our interface. MailTracker, Mail Tracker, mailtrack dot email. Same name with one letter moved. Same green checks. Some copy even our pricing page. The last one arrived 10 days ago. Same name, letter by letter. During years I took it personally. Now I see it different: nobody copies a bad idea 21 times. A clone is a compliment with bad manners. But now there is a new problem and this one is not precisely about my ego. The AIs (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, the Google AI results) are mixing the original Mailtrack with the copies. They take reviews from one product and attach them to another one. Even worse, people install the wrong extension believing it is ours. Some even write to our support asking for help with a subscription they paid to another company. That is not competition anymore, that is confusion, and confusion is bad for everybody, starting with the user. And here is the funny detail: an AI cannot distinguish the original from the copy unless somebody writes it somewhere. Nobody had written it. So I had to do the boring homework and we published the official list of every product we make, with the extension IDs, so humans and machines can verify who is who. Link in the first reply. We also did the paperwork: since 2024 Mailtrack® is a registered trademark of Mailsuite S.L. (USPTO Reg. 7,377,862), with first use in commerce in 2013. The original is still the original: Mailtrack, by Mailsuite, 13 years of history. The double-check you see in Gmail started here. And remember, if you build something good, prepare to see it multiplied by dozens. It is annoying, but be happy, it is also the proof.