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 06:00 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 | 1 day ago |
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Errors | 2 days ago |
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Errors | 3 days ago |
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Sign in | 3 days ago |
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Website Down | 3 days ago |
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Website Down | 3 days ago |
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Gmail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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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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Josh Yoder (@AmarthiaAuthor) reportedOk, has anyone had trouble logging into Twitter from the main page? The "sign in with Google" button isn't registering as a button. You can use the X sign-in, the Apple sign-in, or the "other" sign-in, but the Google sign-in is just a graphic. It's like the code that says it's a button is broken. But I can still use the "other" option to type in my Gmail address and sign in.
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MiKo (@russkiymike) reportedI am having problems while being successful connected to Gmail through Grok Bot not being able to read inbox because a “reviewer error”. Any advice @SpaceXAI ? P.s. I think google is playing ***** 🤔
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Julian Goldie SEO (@JulianGoldieSEO) reportedOpenMousebot just landed. It's a free open-source version of Grokbot. And it runs on the AI subscriptions you already pay for. Quick backstory: Grokbot's "week-long" free trial died on me in 20 minutes. One day later, a builder shipped this. Open source. No waitlist. → Looks like WhatsApp, but every contact is an AI agent → Each bot gets its own brain, memory, and cloud computer → Pick a different model per bot: Claude, Codex, or Grok → 500+ one-click app connections: Gmail, Slack, Notion → Every risky action needs your approval first The part Grokbot can't match: Grokbot locks you into one model and burns tokens fast. This uses the Claude login you already have. One assistant in one chat box was version 1. A named team of agents, each with a job and a computer? That's version 2. And it just went free.
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Akiff Premjee, MD (@akiffpremjee) reported@clairevo @cursor_ai @bot where is the multi account sign in? I don't see it in the gmail plugin?
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Whis 𓅓 (@whisily) reported@Ten10thousand ok so i created adsense with a gmail that doesnt have a verified number....so i was having adsense number issue (they werent sending code) i closed the first one.....then i created another adsense with a gmail that has a verified number using the first adsense details (name, address and all) few days later google themselves disbaled the second adsense account that didnt have the number issue🥲
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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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🤷♀️ d-ab 🍒🦋 (@fossildab) reported@weiirdooky @mienjeongiee Mine too, tried my Gmail accoun but it says „Email/social accounts can only be used for login after you have registered your mobile phone number.“ 😢
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Fight4America (@Fight4USA4ever) reported@BellatrixLux369 1.) "I can't confirm that." in the video you linked you choose to ignore. 2.) You do realize you can create a Gmail account using any name you select, yes? 3.) Additionally, married couples who trust one another have one another's logins. And even if not, most people save their passwords locally. You'll need more than a saved login with cached credentials.
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BARON 🐂 (@BARONMOND_1) reported@OptimusVibee @fomo Good look. Just locked my Gmail down. Security first
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Alexie (@Alexie_Ai) reportedFirst why most inboxes are a disaster. It's not your fault. Gmail defaults every account to one setting: all emails arrive in one flat list. No categories. No priority. No filtering. Everything from your most important client to a promotional email from a store you bought shoes from in 2019 lands in the same stream. The average professional receives 85+ emails per day. Over a year, that's 22,000+ messages arriving in one undifferentiated pile. Gmail has 15+ organizational tools built in. Labels. Filters. Stars. Categories. Multiple Inboxes. Priority Inbox. Nudges. Snooze. Auto-advance. All of them are turned off or unconfigured by default. The coach's framework: "Gmail isn't broken. It's unconfigured. The difference between email chaos and email clarity is 20 minutes in Settings. Once. The system runs itself after that."
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HUNTEX™ - ÒGBÓJÚ ỌDẸ𓃵 🇳🇬➐ ⛋ (@I_am_huntex) reported@gmail why is my google account not connecting with my iPhone mail and contact? I keep signing in and its not signing me in, then i deleted and try to re-log in and it’s not working at all
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Hehehe. Wah (@maiko_hehe) reported@Dark_Energy_33 @MoonManNS14 @mymixtapez Don't mind this usswhole. he's so insistence on deriding others as low iqs ignoring the fact he finds it necessary to write down his own gmail password merely to remember it.
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Tom 🇺🇦 (@SmilingAxeman) reportedBeen having issues with my gmail accounts hour hours now. Not sending or receiving emails. Also having issues with namecheap privatemail
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Jon ONeill (@HouseHackerJon) reported@aspen_broker @bot It has had no issues with Gmail and is working really good. What’s nice is credentials are generally speaking shared across all the agents so I’ve only had to give my chief of staff access in for the most part. He handles the rest to the other team members.
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Jeffrey’s Turing Machine (@jeffreyon_) reported"Cross platform" in a scope document means Android and iOS. It does not mean a website. So nobody quotes a website. Then you reach submission and the stores want one. Apple wants a real org presence, a privacy policy that resolves, a support URL that is not a Gmail address. Now there is work nobody priced, at the exact moment everybody expected to be finished. That is the worst possible place to find scope, because from the outside it looks like the developer stalling at the finish line. The fix is boring. Read the submission requirements at quoting time, not at submission time.
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Brian Behm (@behmcreative) reported@iruletheworldmo I'm finally doing triage on a personal Gmail that had gotten overwhelmed. It's just been jauntily going through my junk mail and chiming in when it saved a receipt or something else. No issues and when there was an api snag it just hopped to another account to triage.
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Zander (@zdrks) reported@jasonfried Jason, can you please put an emphasis on speed? I've been using HEY since the day it came out, and it's always been extremely slow relative to every other email app (gmail, fastmail, etc). it's one of the worst parts about it IMO
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jaipur social media prabhari (@mnfinance2577) reported@ScmRspl @OlaElectric @bapandan Dear Sir, my Ola Electric app is not working. ola support not response gmail send 7 days Number RJ14ZK6643
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Harshil Tomar (@Hartdrawss) reportedhow to plan a full AI product with @mattpocockuk's wayfinder skill wayfinder is a Claude Code skill for planning work too large and foggy for one session, and it fits AI product development insanely well because most builds begin with a clear outcome but dozens of unresolved decisions underneath it. You might know you want: "an AI support agent that resolves 70% of tickets automatically" but you still need to decide: - what company data the agent can access - which actions require human approval - how memory works across conversations - what happens when an integration fails - how usage connects to billing most vibe-coded products start building before these decisions exist, which is why the database changes twice, onboarding gets rebuilt, frontend waits on backend decisions and Claude rewrites code it shipped 3 days ago. Wayfinder turns that fog into a connected decision map before it becomes expensive code. heres the workflow: 1. DEFINE THE DESTINATION: Start with one concrete product outcome that explains who the user is, what they can do and where the workflow ends. "build an AI sales tool" leaves too much open. "a founder connects Gmail, the agent finds qualified conversations, drafts follow-ups and asks for approval before sending" gives every future decision a clear filter. 2. MAP THE OPEN DECISIONS: Wayfinder works backwards from that destination and identifies the unanswered questions blocking the product, such as Gmail permissions, company memory, approval rules, error handling, user visibility and paid usage. Each question becomes a connected decision ticket, so product context lives in one map instead of disappearing across chats, calls and random docs. 3. FIND THE FRONTIER: Some decisions block several others behind them. You need to define what the agent can access before designing approvals, logs and user permissions. Wayfinder surfaces the open questions that can be resolved right now, giving Claude a useful next step instead of letting it grab the easiest feature in the repo. 4. SPLIT HUMAN AND AGENT WORK: Each decision gets classified by who should resolve it: - HITL: founder judgement, product taste or a business tradeoff - AFK: research Claude can complete using docs, APIs and the codebase Pricing and user experience stay with the founder, while OAuth limitations and integration research can run independently. This keeps the build moving while the important product decisions remain intentional. 5. RESOLVE ONE DECISION PER SESSION: Each session explores one question, records the answer and updates the map. Resolving Gmail scopes can reveal approval rules, which reveal the activity log, which then shapes the database model. The product spec grows through small permanent decisions, and future Claude sessions can understand WHY the system was designed that way instead of guessing from the existing code. 6. TURN THE MAP INTO BUILDABLE WORK: Once the important decisions are clear: - run /to-spec to generate the complete product specification - run /to-tickets to split it into buildable tasks - identify independent tickets agents can execute in parallel - keep blocked work outside active development The result is a build where frontend screens connect to real backend decisions, agent actions have clear boundaries and integrations already have failure paths. Claude can write code fast. Wayfinder makes sure that code is solving the right product decisions before it reaches the repo !
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CW23 (@CW23CW) reported@thTexasTeacher @mediocrerebel @hoofnagle I guess I'll have to go to my Gmail and screenshot it. This is twice now you've very assertively called me a liar. What is true in my world doesn't have to be true in yours. If you don't like what I have to say there's a couple of different features this platform provides that can remedy your issue with me.
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roxy vi britannia || manhwa! na hwajin is DADDY (@deerdovealastor) reported@FeedMe_Katsudon i had this problem that i may "accidentally" click a site wherein all my accts got hack. anything associated with the email address was automatically kicked me out. i retrieved my gmail accts and changed every pasword and did not choose the "save password" again.
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Kristian Ortiz (@Krisortiz350) reported@gmail problems with Gmail new incoming emails no longer bolded?
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atis (@atisonchain) reported@panosmek social logins and passkeys tied to email accounts aren't immune either as 48 mil Gmail credentials leaked in January 2026 there could be millions of solutions to these issues, but email accounts are not one of them tbf no method where keys touch the internet can be a solution
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DHH (@dhh) reportedHEY is how I stay sane with email. I had to login to Gmail the other day for a board obligation and couldn't help but think "damn, you ******* all live like this???".
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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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Gipp 🦅 (@gippp69) reportedIMAGINE COMPUTER JUST COMPRESSED 48 HOURS OF CLIENT VIDEO WORK INTO 8 HOURS 7 client spots that used to eat a week of evenings were finished in one working day. the whole run started with 4 lines. gmail → brief → generate → verify → send the video below shows how far the generation can go people turn into a gorilla, a pig and a coffee-holding groundhog while the street scene stays coherent. when one render came back 16:9 and 6 seconds instead of 9:16 and 15, the agent scrapped it, regenerated it and checked the real mp4 before delivery. then it attached the 14 mb file inside the original gmail thread. the full article below breaks down the entire run and the automation behind it.
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SUNDAY MICHEAL OLAWUNI (@Jsmike03) reported@NnannaJideoffo @maljafeiri Thanks you so much, I use sign in with gmail, as well but it the code is not working. Also it always direct me to KYC dashboard and which verify is not working here
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Turbo Domains (@turbodomains) reported@NamecheapCEO During outage I tested an email by sending to my spacemail. Gmail says it's been sent. But it has NOT been arrived into my inbox. Will it be queued or can we consider it as lost? I was about to receive critical emails for my saas from various providers yesterday. @NamecheapCEO
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Anonymous (@AnimaStack) reported@nykdotdev That's the whole product question. I can swap models next month. I cannot un-share a cookie jar after the bot has been in Gmail. If they split sessions per bot, Grok Bot becomes a real seat. Until then it's a demo with a login.