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 8: Problems at Gmail
Gmail is having issues since 06:00 PM 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 (35%)
- Sign in (27%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:
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Website Down | 4 hours ago |
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Errors | 19 hours ago |
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Website Down | 1 day 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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Hemanth Vishnu Akula (@okamigenshin) reportedWe're building Authex — an autonomous business email security platform. Most teams check email security in three places that never talk to each other. Someone owns DNS. Someone else owns the Microsoft 365 or Workspace tenant. Nobody owns "are we actually compliant" — until a customer's security questionnaire asks, and it becomes a two-week fire drill. So things drift. Authentication that passed last quarter quietly breaks when a vendor changes selectors. The tenant holds the real exposure — controls nobody re-checked after the last admin left. And it costs revenue both ways. Fail the Gmail and Yahoo sender rules, and outbound you already paid for stops landing. Can't evidence your email controls, and enterprise deals stall in security review while your champion waits. Authex reviews all three — domains, tenants and workspaces, and where you stand against the frameworks. Continuously. It decides what to fix and does it. It pauses only when a change could drop legitimate mail. #authex #autonomous #security
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.? (@Blanksntime) reportedHey @gmail can you fix the picture attachment to not be a giant image that takes 2 minutes to scroll to the edge of
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Ishant (@koharishant) reported@prades_maxime @cursor_ai Fix the Gmail plugin
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🎀🌸🐎🍡🐝七転び八起き| self-care phase (@shapesofkiseki) reportedWord of advice for those trying to join jun’s mjm - do not use gmail since email confirmations are delayed. i suggest protonmail - there are currently problems for other fans who already completed the registration and payment but on their page, it shows no payment and fc # /1
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t (@sereinnity) reported@basemole login pake gmail
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Vocado (@Vocado114) reported@_DetectiveLoki_ I'm singing up with gmail emails I think?? Like,, my own email got suspended first,, time I tried using my spare one and then thing happened. I don't think discord has a bad problem with gmail though?? I mean I made an account before using my gmail,, this is confusing
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Pondei (@ebimopondei) reportedGmail has 0 customer support for a big tech company. You'll probably be unable to login to your account from a different device if you lost your phone and laptop where you are currently logged in. It's scary TBH
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Siddartha Gupta (@siddartha1492) reported@Anonymous242420 @playyakkamon Gmail is having issues with logon code. Can try other wmail or direct sign in with google account
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DAN (@arowolodaniel) reportedFirst, what happens when Gmail receives your email. It asks three questions in order: 1. Did a server allowed by this domain send it? (SPF) 2. Has the content been tampered with in transit? (DKIM) 3. What does the domain want me to do if 1 and 2 fail? (DMARC) Fail all three and you are in spam before anyone reads a word.
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RD T.O.C.G. WarrioR (@rdwarrior6691) reported@onyxgata Open the message in Gmail. On the right corner, you'll see three dots. Tap on them, scroll down to "Report spam," and tap on that. Then you'll see a pop-up saying "Block emailer." Block it.
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Jose Mugaburu (@mugabuilds) reported@kimmonismus I feel the pain with threaded emails. If you're referring to Gmail, their json object for can be confusing, so you need to fetch the data in the right places, then use metadata so you can guarantee it always reads the latest emails. I have an issue like that, and changed the digest workflow a little bit, and that solved it.
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🇵🇷🌹Brandon Lopez ☭ (AKA Humper-Doo) 🇮🇹 🇮🇪 (@a7xlopeza7x) reportedWhen I tell the "customer support" (who I barely understand) clearing my cache isn't solving the problem, I tell her I want to talk to a supervisor...now I'm told their isnt a pervisor. once I mention never buying another Pixel & cancelling my Gmail then they find a supervisor
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NLE_☘️updates🇺🇸🇨🇦 (@nle_devil) reported@ObakeTrader Use gmail wey you never use sign in for any site b4, then use pia vpn or ethavpn, with Los Angeles
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Ishu Agrawal (@ishuagra02) reportedIt has access to your computer's files. It can autonomously control the browser. It can connect to plugins like Gmail. It has support for skills and MCPs. What does this do differently from Codex or Claude? @gabriel1 says the problem is that most people, esp outside of SF and the tech bubble, don't know how to leverage AI in their workflows. That's true, but building a Codex-like autonomous engine in public to his tech-literate followers on X isn't going to shift the general public sentiment or adoption of AI.
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ALARAPE XCHANGE (@iyanda001) reported@AirtelNigeria please fix your network 🙏 Since last month it’s been frustrating. 100GB bought, can’t use 15GB properly. Only TikTok is working, Gmail won’t open. We’re all facing this. Please restore proper service for everyone. Thank you.
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PAM PAM💙🌹 (@pamilhereen) reportedProgress update on PamPamé... Today's focus was email delivery. So, since I haven't gotten a custom domain yet, I ran into Supabase's SMTP rate limit during testing (only two emails per hour)😔 Rather than letting that slow me down, I configured Gmail SMTP so the application can send emails directly from my Gmail account while I'm still in development... It's a temporary setup tho, but it keeps everything moving until I'm ready to switch to a production email service with my own domain.
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enes (@eneszyyl) reported@googleaccount No help is given to recover my Gmail account, I’m psychologically broken, my whole digital life is losing, help me now
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Nick Thorp (@nickthorpp) reportedThe Strategic Move That Could Save Google's AI Future (And Why They Probably Won't Make It) I've been building with AI long enough to remember when Google felt untouchable. Back in the day, if you were an engineer, Google was the mountaintop. They had the papers. They had the researchers. They had the TPUs. Every breakthrough worth caring about seemed to flow out of Mountain View. Then something shifted. I started noticing it around 2022. Small teams — like, embarrassingly small teams — were shipping things that Google couldn't. A handful of people were building coding agents, AI-native IDEs, full-stack generation tools that developers actually wanted to use. Meanwhile, Google would announce something incredible at I/O, and six months later it would be deprecating it or burying it inside some product nobody asked for. I felt it personally. I'd build on a Google API, get invested, write code around it, and then watch it get sunset with a blog post and thirty days' notice. I'd migrate. Rebuild. Curse under my breath. Repeat. And the whole time I kept asking myself the same question. Why does a company with this much firepower keep fumbling the ball? Today on X, @pmddomingos dropped a take that stopped me cold. He said Google should move to a pharma and movie studio model. Distribution muscle in-house. Creativity outsourced to smaller, nimbler outfits. The more I sat with it, the more it made sense. Here's what pharma companies understand. They don't try to discover every drug themselves. They buy or partner with biotech startups that do the messy, creative, high-risk research. Then they handle the clinical trials, the regulatory maze, the distribution. They are the last mile. The scale. The muscle. Movie studios work the same way. They don't develop every script in-house. Production companies, independent creators, writers — they handle the creative chaos. The studio handles financing, marketing, and getting butts into seats or onto streaming platforms. Now look at Google. Google has arguably the most powerful distribution infrastructure in human history. Search. YouTube. Android. Gmail. Chrome. Billions of users. A cloud platform with global reach. They even quietly entered the movie and TV business through 100 Zeros, operating at arm's length with a tiny dedicated staff — not unlike Nike's Waffle Iron Entertainment setup. Distribution is not Google's problem. It never was. Google's problem is the other thing. The creative part. The part where someone says what if we built this and then actually builds it without seventeen layers of review, a committee, and a strategy doc nobody reads. I've watched internal Google teams iterate at the speed of government while a three-person startup ships a product that hits a million users in a month. The startup has no compute advantage. No brand moat. But it has velocity and creative hunger. It has a developer workspace where ideas turn into deployed apps in hours, not quarters. That's the thing the pharma and studio models get right. They don't confuse distribution capability with creative capability. They know those are different muscles. They know the people who are great at one are usually terrible at the other. And here's what's wild — there's a prediction floating around that by 2026, studios will split into two clear camps. Those still waiting for permission and greenlights. And those building systems that monetize audience attention every single day. The AI world is heading the same direction. The companies that win won't be the ones with the most researchers behind closed doors. They'll be the ones who figure out how to be the platform, the distribution layer, the last mile — while letting a thousand small, hungry teams handle the creative chaos of building what users actually want. Google doesn't need to out-innovate OpenAI or Anthropic or the next two-person startup that blows up overnight. It needs to stop trying. It needs to become the studio. The distributor. The infrastructure that smaller players build on top of. And honestly? It's already sitting on the pieces. It just hasn't connected them. The compute is there. The developer tools are there. The user base is there. What's missing is the mindset shift — admitting that the best ideas probably aren't going to come from inside the building, and that's okay. That's not weakness. That's leverage. I think about my own stack. I use a mix of agentic coding tools, AI-powered IDEs, local LLM environments, and cloud-based dev spaces. None of them come from Google. They could. But they don't. And the reason isn't capability. It's that Google keeps trying to be the creative genius when it should be the studio that backs a hundred creative geniuses. So here's my question — if Google went full studio model tomorrow and became the distribution layer for independent AI builders, what's the first kind of product or team you'd want to see them back? Drop your answer in the comments, I read every one. And if this resonated, follow along — I write about this stuff constantly.
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🕸 (@GDajuyoung) reported@Wizarab10 Happened once, deleted everything deleted in Gmail, drive and photos...still the same. Eventually, I was able to figure it out; I always download YouTube videos to watch later, especially podcasts. I discovered that's the issue. I'd to delete everything, and it worked.
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Dev Omogo (@PeterOmogo2) reportedWhen starting a project with a client, the first thing I ask for is a brand new, dedicated Gmail account. I use it to sign up for all project accounts: their GitHub organization, VPS hosting, API platforms, and email senders. When the project is finished, handing over ownership is as simple as giving them the login credentials for that single email. It keeps client billing separate and handovers clean.
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Willian Vinicius (@willianvvv) reported@bobbilee @arc @Bobbilee I’ve been trying to support for a while, unfortunately I was affected, the ambassadors that I won’t mention the name try to contact me directly trying to solve my problem, could you help me? The position was delivered in a different email registered in the community hub, one is iCloud and the other is gmail. If you can help me even in the middle of so much rush, you will help me a lot!
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LEGIT DROPS (@dairdropshunter) reported@trend_btc_app had issues relogin in with gmail, finally got in with x then couldn't see the drop🤦
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soubolina (@soubolina60296) reported@daocoi24h @TikCoin_Network If you can't remember your password click on forgot password then get from Gmail and login
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Lajos Csillik (@lcsillik) reported@rtrzizi If they had used the Gmail Delegation that Google offers, they wouldn't have this problem.
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Bence Redmond (@BenceRedmond) reported@shcallaway @sazabi imo as long as Notion has a good MCP server, it doesn't make sense to represent docs in markdown. You miss out on a lot of the niceties of a proper note-taking app. what I really want is a `universal_search` MCP that's able to combine the search tools from all my other integrations (GitHub, Notion, Granola, Gmail, etc.) -- I think that solves a lot of the fragmentation problems. (monorepos ftw btw)
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Follower of Jesus (@wholelattafait1) reported@TeamYouTube hi, I’m trying to reach to you to please help me. My Gmail and password to log into my YouTube channel has been changed. When I try to use my login Gmail. It will not take the password. Says password was changed 3 days ago. Please help me get my access back.
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Laxmi Rani Bodana (@lax97981) reported3/ Your Phone Is a Separate Problem Desktop settings do not automatically sync to your phone. Your Gmail app on iPhone or Android has its own separate toggle. Go to: Gmail app → tap Menu (three lines) → Settings → tap your account name → Smart features and personalization → Turn OFF → Confirm If you skip this step: Your phone is still sending your email data to Google's AI. Even after you turned it off on desktop. Check every device you use Gmail on. Every single one needs to be turned off separately.
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Bridget | Website Designer | WVS (@Odunolami_1) reportedThe problem is not from Gmail Your Google account gives you 15GB of free storage shared across Gmail, Google Drive, and Google Photos. When one fills up, they all suffer. So check your Google drive and Google photos and delete anything occupying space there. If your images & videos are saved on Google photos & Google drive, it occupy the whole space, even if you delete your email messages, nothing changes.
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Bomba (@Reism4k) reported@kapilansh_twt To be honest, its good, except Google throttles the **** out of you, if you visit ANY google website on Edge. YouTube suddenly has random delays, takes longer to load. And same story with google search, gmail and anything Google, just to make you think your browser is slow...