Gmail status: access issues and outage reports

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.

Most Reported Problems

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

• Errors (37%)
• Website Down (35%)
• Sign in (28%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Landivisiau	Errors	4 hours ago
Le Thor	Website Down	13 hours ago
Chartres	Sign in	21 hours ago
Boos	Website Down	1 day ago
Angers	Website Down	1 day ago
Créteil	Errors	2 days ago

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Community Discussion

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Gmail Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  yoon. (@ItsSugaGirl) reported 5 minutes ago

  @suitetvapp Any chance we can get a "download data" feature? Also, how can I switch my login from Apple to Gmail without losing my account/progress? Thanks!

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  Anders Jensen-Waud (@jensenwaud) reported 7 minutes ago

  @memoryplague @GabGarrett That’s interesting. I have disabled my Gmail plugin with Codex. There seems to be some teething issues with the new platform. Hopefully it didn’t send anything offensive to anyone.

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  Rajesh Kumar (@therjrajesh) reported 7 minutes ago

  A man was about to delete his 15-year-old Gmail account. Reason? 400 spam emails every day. • Fake receipts • Phishing scams • Extortion emails • Endless junk He moved his cursor to Delete Account. Then a coworker stopped him. "Don't delete your Gmail. Fix what attackers are exploiting." She showed him 22 overlooked Gmail settings that dramatically reduced spam. Most people never touch them. Here's the playbook. 🧵

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  Swifter (@SwtNir) reported 9 minutes ago

  @TeamYouTube My gmail account is hacked and I cannot recover it. Someone has changed the password, added a passkey, changed the contact number, changed recovery email and everything. There is no way to sign-in. Google account recovery is not working as well. Please help!!!!!

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  مارپل ایرانی (@marplii) reported 9 minutes ago

  @suitetvapp Login with gmail or email plz

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  Kislay Parashar (@KislayParashar1) reported 9 minutes ago

  @DanielMiessler Google invented the transformer in 2017 and eight years later their flagship AI moment is an unskippable Gmail popup. That's not bad luck, that's a culture problem.

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  Patrick (@revealingimpact) reported 10 minutes ago

  Warning: Google’s Broken Support System & Irresponsibly Designed Family Link Parental Feature is Enabling a New Wave of Ransomware Attacks tl;dr - Google created a feature capable of transferring near-total control of an account, failed to place meaningful guardrails, verification, or intelligent abuse detection around it, and provides virtually no effective recovery support once it is weaponized. That combination has created a prolific new form of consumer account ransomware: attackers steal an authenticated session, convert the victim’s account into a supervised child account, install themselves as the controlling parent, and then extort the victim using the threat of permanent account loss and mass identity theft. This just happened to a family member. He used the same Gmail account for nearly his entire adult life, and it became the central identity behind almost everything he did online. His email history, Google Photos, Drive files, gaming accounts, password resets, subscriptions, and years of personal information were all connected to it. He is not temporarily “locked out.” Unless Google intervenes, the account is permanently lost and now controlled by someone else. The initial compromise appears to have started with common information stealing malware, A/K/A "Stealers". Stealers extract browser data such as cookies, saved credentials, and active session tokens. A stolen session is especially dangerous because the attacker may not need to know the password or defeat two-factor authentication. They are operating through a browser session that Google already considers authenticated. The attacker then abuses Google’s own account management features. They change the victim’s date of birth, so the adult account appears to belong to a child, trigger the Family Link supervision process, and add an attacker-controlled Google account as the parent. From there, they can reset the password, terminate the victim’s sessions, and establish themselves as the trusted authority over the account. That abuse is serious on its own, but Google’s support and recovery failures are what make this vector exceptionally dangerous. In a functioning recovery system, the legitimate owner would be able to report the compromise, verify years of account ownership, reverse the fraudulent supervision change, and remove the attacker. Instead, victims are pushed into automated recovery flows that often defer to the attacker-controlled “parent” account. There is frequently no meaningful escalation path, no competent human review, and no practical way to challenge the fraudulent change. In other words, this is not merely an account takeover technique. It is a permanent account-destruction technique made possible by Google’s inability or unwillingness to support its own users. The attacker exploits the feature, but Google’s recovery model completes the attack. Without that failure, this would be a recoverable security incident rather than the permanent loss of someone’s digital identity. Google's lack of underlying controls is also difficult to defend. An account that has used the same adult birthdate for ten years should not suddenly be converted into a supervised child account without extensive verification. A new Family Link parent should not be able to immediately reset credentials and displace the established owner. Changes with this level of impact should require step-up authentication, confirmation through long-standing recovery channels, delayed activation, prominent alerts, and a rollback mechanism that the newly added parent cannot override. The consequences extend far beyond Gmail. Once the attacker controls the primary email address, they can reset passwords for other services, impersonate the victim, access private files and photos, target contacts, distribute malware, and recover accounts across the victim’s digital life. Any passwords, payment data, or notes stolen during the original infostealer infection may create additional losses. AI is making the surrounding ecosystem worse by lowering the cost of creating convincing fake applications, download pages, advertisements, support sites, and social-engineering material. Less capable criminals can now launch higher-volume campaigns against ordinary users rather than focusing only on large corporate targets. Smaller ransom demands and individual account theft can still be highly profitable when repeated at scale. The most disturbing part is that this could happen to almost anyone. Google has spent years encouraging people to use one account as their email provider, cloud archive, photo library, identity provider, and recovery mechanism for the rest of their online lives. When a company creates that level of dependence, it also assumes a responsibility to provide competent recovery when its own features are abused. Right now, Google is failing that responsibility. Until it adds stronger controls and a real human escalation process, Family Link remains an extraordinarily high-impact account-takeover vector capable of permanently separating people from their entire digital lives. Please fix this @Google @TeamYouTube

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  Abhishek Soni (@emailwabhishek) reported 10 minutes ago

  Your open rate isn't real anymore. Apple and Gmail are the ones making the number up, not you. Apple loads your email the second it lands. Before anyone reads it. That's about half of all "opens" you see. Not real people, just Apple's computers. Gmail does something different. It loads the pictures in your email through its own system, so an "open" a few seconds after you hit send is usually just Gmail, not a real person. And once it saves that picture, a real second read often doesn't even show up. Now both companies made it worse. Apple's AI writes a short summary of your email right in the inbox. People read that and never open the real email. Gmail does the same thing now. Its AI sums up the whole email thread, so the "open" never even happens. Your click rate isn't safe either. Bots click your links millions of times a day. The real number can be off by half. And Apple's newest update now removes the tracking info from links people click in Mail, so even that data is getting worse. Three numbers broken. Two big email companies making it worse every year. What's still real are replies, sales and money made per subscriber.

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  Emmanuel Anesu Mutandiro🇿🇦🇿🇼 (@AnesuMutandiro) reported 12 minutes ago

  3/3 Google will email your Gmail aft approvl. If your entire street is completely missing from the map, use the 'Fix a map' option first to draw the missing road before pinning your house. Let's crowd-source our neighborhood maps and make ride-hailing seamless in Zimbabwe! 🚗💨

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  Nilesh Kumar (@knileshh) reported 16 minutes ago

  Everyone keeps calling MCP the "USB-C for AI." That's actually a pretty good analogy. Before USB-C, every device needed a different cable. One for your phone. Another for your camera. Another for your laptop. AI tools used to have the same problem. Every app had its own custom integration. Want your AI to use Gmail? Build a Gmail integration. Want it to use GitHub? Build another one. Slack? Another. Notion? Another. MCP changes that. Instead of every AI model learning a different way to talk to every app, apps expose a standard interface. The AI learns one protocol. Then it can work with thousands of compatible tools. Think of it like this: 🔌 USB-C standardized hardware connections. 🤖 MCP standardizes AI connections. That's why so many companies are adopting it. Not because it makes models smarter... Because it makes connecting models to the real world dramatically simpler. Once you understand MCP, you'll realize it's less about AI... and more about making integrations finally speak the same language. #ai #llm #mcp

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  Luke (SteadyOn) (@2Steady4U) reported 17 minutes ago

  @Shedletsky The new stuff is decent for personal, cloud connected tasks (through plugins, e.g. gmail) but is a complete mess for MCPs and has had huge performance issues for as long as I've used it. The model is quite literally slowed down somehow. Don't even get me started on WSL.

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  Kyle Pullman (@kylepullman) reported 17 minutes ago

  Hey @Google / @googlecalendar I find it incredibly frustrating that when someone proposes a new time in a Google Calendar invite, when it comes to my Gmail account, I can't see the proposed time. I have to go to the actual invite on the calendar app to see what time they are proposing. Seems like an easy fix to include the proposed time in the email notification?

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  DWE Post (@dwepost) reported 24 minutes ago

  Google services are not making any effort to solve the problem. They keep saying, “Send us a DM,” but it’s extremely difficult to reach them. @gmail @Google

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  Julian Goldie SEO (@JulianGoldieSEO) reported 24 minutes ago

  ChatGPT Work merges ChatGPT, Codex, and GPT 5.6 into one agent that does the job for you. Over 1 MILLION non-coders are using a coding tool every week. Here's why. OpenAI just mashed ChatGPT, Codex, and GPT 5.6 into one thing: ChatGPT Work. Old ChatGPT was a smart friend on the phone. You ask, they answer, the call ends. ChatGPT Work is handing that friend the keys to your office: → It reads your Slack, Gmail, Drive, and Salesforce → It breaks big jobs into steps and works for hours alone → Scheduled tasks run reports on a timer. Set once, runs forever. → Ultra mode runs several agents on one project at the same time. 4 cooks, 1 meal. The proof isn't a demo. OpenAI's own finance team cut month-end forecasts from days to hours. Why it works: coding tools check, test, and fix their own work. Now that habit runs your slides and reports too. The busywork stops eating your day. Your judgment is what's left. Save this. You'll want it later. Want the SOP? DM me.

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  𐕣 weeb with a gun 𐕣 (@n1ghtcore4ever) reported 26 minutes ago

  So yeah, never ******* using Google or Gmail ever again. These ghouls have zero problem handing over all of your private information to anyone. 🖕

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  Niraj chowdhury (@Nirajchoudhur10) reported 29 minutes ago

  Dear Income Tax Department, Trying to complete a new registration on the Income Tax portal, but the Gmail OTP is not being received despite multiple attempts since this morning. Kindly look into the issue and help resolve it at the earliest. Thank you.@IncomeTaxIndia @MCA21India

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  Gappy (Giuseppe Paleologo) (@__paleologo) reported 31 minutes ago

  Mini-rant. Every time I open gmail on the browser, I get this message: "Oops, something went wrong". To fix it, I try everything suggested by OAI. Then I contact @google customer service. After an hour of chat, of sending all possible screenshots (in multiple browsers also incognito mode), the exchange with OAI and the remedies, and then even a video of the event (!), the representative says "oh sorry, we are google one, not workspace." me: "can you at least forward the exchange?". Of course not. You have to spend another hour. It seems completely absurd. I am 90% curious about fixing a google problem *for them*. I have been thinking about what makes tech companies good. A sign of organizational rot is the "I don't care about what's good for the firm, this is the process" and it close cousin "This is very hard to do", and the "Why make trouble? This works well". Nothing works quite as expected, both at great companies and mediocre ones. It's just that these expectations are different.

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  Jo (@jogamedev) reported 32 minutes ago

  @SandorHQ @NaturalCauzes Ah this sent me down an interesting trail: it's a real gmail account but sent from a 3rd party service. So likely they're whole account isn't legit even though its the same email and they're farming for keys

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  ×͜× ʟauda࿐ (@Rollielauda) reported 36 minutes ago

  I like to Dey work with smart ******, which one be you no sabi login gmail or switch on vpn. Make I start to de explain.

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  Akshay 🆇 (@akshayji10) reported 40 minutes ago

  @lalitgrateful What will happen if somone sends email on old email id… will I still get it?? And, the web portals where I sign in using the old gmail id and get OTPs, will that still work?

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  orcaa (@0x0rcaa) reported 43 minutes ago

  @WhatPayGlobal @berachain any issue with OTP gmail ?

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  i-LevelUP (@CryptoScout24) reported 43 minutes ago

  Popular Services/Messengers That Are Typically NOT (Fully) End-to-End EncryptedThese are the ones affected by scanning under the current EU Chat Control setup which has passed today in the EU: Email services (most standard ones): - Gmail (Google) - Outlook/Hotmail (Microsoft) - Yahoo Mail - iCloud Mail (Apple, standard) - Many others without E2EE enabled - Facebook/Instagram Messenger (standard mode) — Often not fully E2EE unless "Secret Conversations" are turned on - Skype (standard chats) — Microsoft can access content. - Snapchat — Chats and snaps are not E2EE by default (some features have it, but not comprehensively) - Telegram (standard/cloud chats) — Encrypted between device and server, but Telegram holds the keys and can access content. Only "Secret Chats" are protected. - Discord — Messages are not E2EE; the company can moderate/scan - Older/traditional SMS/MMS — Completely unencrypted. - Xbox Live messaging and some gaming platforms. - Cloud storage/file sharing tied to chats (e.g., Dropbox, iCloud, Google Drive in some contexts) — Often scanned Let that sink in ! allegedly to fight against child abuse

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  SasyScarborough (@SasyScarborough) reported 48 minutes ago

  If it says GMAIL or another mail carrier in the subject line, you would think in 2026 they would know they didn't send me ways to fix ______ disfunction. I assure you Google I do not have the parts for such disfunction, so i won't be upset if you do not let it through.

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  Alexander Benz (@alexanderbenz) reported 48 minutes ago

  @rileybrown Gmail is where replies go to die. Codex as the OS for async work is the actual fix.

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  Michel Lieben (@MichLieben) reported 49 minutes ago

  You can turn a raw list of names into verified emails without ever logging into a single data provider. Start with the problem. You've built a list of people to reach: names, companies, maybe a LinkedIn link. What you're missing is the one thing you need to contact them, their email. Finding it is enrichment. No single provider has everyone. Each one builds its database its own way, so one covers a big slice of your list and has nothing on the rest. Bet everything on one tool and you leave half your list on the floor. So you don't. You stack providers cheapest to most expensive and run them in order. The cheap one clears most of the list for pennies. Everyone it misses falls to the next provider, then the next. The expensive aggregator only ever touches the few names nobody else could find. That's the waterfall. Each source catches what the one above it dropped, and your cost stays low because the priciest tool barely runs. Verify every email before you send. Skip it and it costs you: a dead address bounces, and enough bounces train Gmail to file you under spam. An unverified guess is worse than an empty cell. Set it up once in Claude Code, the provider order and a spend cap, then point the agent at your list. It runs the whole cascade, verifies every address, stops at your cap, and gives you one clean file. Every row comes back with the email, the source that found it, and whether it cleared verification. The few nobody could place get flagged, so you skip them and move on. Starting it was the only part that needed you.

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  Padma Neelamraju (@PNeelamraju) reported 49 minutes ago

  Notes from MIT 6.566 Lecture 8 on web security. Web security addresses a different problem than operating systems or smartphones: a single browser manages multiple applications simultaneously. Gmail runs in one tab, your bank in another, all sharing the same process space. The threat model assumes the user's browser will visit the attacker's website. The attacker controls both a malicious tab in your browser and a server on the internet. This is realistic because users cannot avoid bad sites. Even trusted sites like New York Times accept ads that can run arbitrary JavaScript. The browser must prevent the attacker's tab from accessing Gmail messages, bank credentials, or impersonating requests to legitimate servers. Unlike desktop security, not every application can access everything by asking.

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  Shraddha Bharuka (@BharukaShraddha) reported 55 minutes ago

  4. Third-Party App Leeches (The OAuth Backdoor) The Situation: For over a decade, you’ve been clicking that convenient "Sign in with Google" button to access random PDF editors, personality quizzes, mobile games, and budget trackers. You traded access to your Google account to save 30 seconds of typing a new password. The Mechanics: Many of those apps requested OAuth permissions to "Read, Compose, Send, and Permanently Delete all your email from Gmail." You clicked "Allow" without reading. Even if you deleted the app from your phone five years ago, the developer's server still maintains a permanent, open backdoor into your inbox. Shady developers frequently sell these dormant apps to malicious actors who use those permissions to quietly scrape your inbox for receipts, bank names, and contacts. The Fix: Go to your Google Account > Security > Third-party apps with account access. Click on "Manage third-party access." You will be horrified by the graveyard of forgotten apps. Revoke access to absolutely everything that isn't a highly trusted, daily-use application. Slam the backdoor shut.

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  QuantuM 𝚿 (@quanti_xbt) reported 57 minutes ago

  I honestly did not expect this from @X But this is not just an X problem. Support systems across many of the biggest tech companies often fall short when accounts get compromised. The biggest lesson? Don't rely on support to save you. Protect your account before it's too late. Here are two things everyone should do right now: Enable 2FA on your Gmail account. Enable 2FA on your X account (this is absolutely critical). The @Rektofun account was compromised because 2FA on X was not enabled. I genuinely hope the team gets the support they need and regains access as soon as possible. Stay safe. One small security step today can save months of work tomorrow.

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  JC 🇱🇻🤝🇺🇦 e/acc (@JCeacc) reported 59 minutes ago

  @OliverJia1014 The real problem is "everything apps". Microsoft and Google accounts allow you to access lots of stuff - so if you lose access to the account - you lose everything. This is why I don't use outlook or gmail. My email provider handles only my email. No cloud storage, no social network, no games, nothing else. Same thing with my cloud storage provider - it only stores my files. This X account allows me to shitpost online. It doesn't store my emails or my files.

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  Lisan Al Gaib (@Muba_sheer) reported 59 minutes ago

  you can get a NAS and just store your stuff on your home server if you can pay the cost upfront leave the gmail 15gb for actual mails