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 13: Problems at Gmail
Gmail is having issues since 01:00 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 (35%)
- Sign in (27%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Gmail outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 29 minutes ago |
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Website Down | 2 hours ago |
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Website Down | 5 hours ago |
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Errors | 9 hours ago |
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Errors | 11 hours ago |
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Sign in | 12 hours ago |
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Gmail Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Sholla Ard 🇰🇪 (@sholard_mancity) reported🚨 BREAKING: Your boss can now dig through EVERYTHING on your work laptop… even your private emails, late-night chats, and personal files. A Kenyan employee thought she was safe. She logged into her personal Gmail on the company computer. She sent private messages. She stored personal stuff. Then performance problems hit. The company seized the laptop. They opened it. They read through her personal email. She cried privacy violation. Constitutional rights. Article 31. The court looked at her… and said NO. “Your computer belongs to the employer. You used it for personal business at your own risk. No expectation of privacy.” Boom. Case dismissed. Employers just got a green light to inspect work devices, even when you’re mixing private life with company property. One wrong login… and your secrets can become evidence. It feels extreme.
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koto2992 (@koto2992) reported@jasminexETH That's because the problem is rarely actually your inbox. It's that the rest of your Google account shares a storage pool with your Gmail. And they haven't advertised that in over a decade. You think every company should have to honor anything they said ever? Not sustainable.
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Efe (@efexeth) reportedLet me give you my take about the fud some people are on about @RealBucketShop First off, all of this is hand-made :) not written by some language model, and not addressed to those living organisms who are trying to make a living out of throwing dirt at others with a broken heart and soul. if they take what they can take, thats on them. If you want to learn how cool it is to KNOW, and protect yourself from false information, continue reading. if you dont, just stop right here, and all the best for ya. It will be so easy to comprehend as I will give solid examples. Regarding "similarities". Real edge in businesses whether its small or big, primarily comes from "variety" and "solving more problems", the ones who trusts their position like it doesnt change, and dont improve, were cannibalized at the end of the day.. Let me give you some examples, since im some 40+ year old.. Zoom.. It came after Skype (never heard?), when video meetings were booming.. but after that, Zoom made it way simpler, more reliable, more businessy. Photo sharing.. It already existed on Facebook, but Instagram made it mobile first, visuals first, and built an entire social network out of it. Fun fact. Social networking was also present before Facebook, and people used it for long years, Myspace! Do you know Myspace? It was SUPERB!.. Moving on.. Google, you think there was no search engine before? Have you ever heard of Altavista, or even Yahoo? No? Okay. Now you know Google made it faster, and performed much better at ranking results, and started pioneering.. Gmail is also after Yahoo mail, note that as well.. (same mechanics? :)) not finished.. another one most of you never heard, is Napster. Do you know what Napster was? Digital music was already there, but new SaaS models, like Spotify, Youtube Music, etc. today is ruling that environment. Again, not finished.. Have you ever heard Craigslist? People were posting rentals, jobs, the whole shebang.. meaning, home and room rentals were already there, but AIRBNB still appeared, no? have you ever heard the founders story? how they got influenced? INFLUENCED? thats your homework. go check it out. hint: craigslist :) Another hilarious part, fudding with UI.. oh, dear. just know how they want to play with perceptions, living in spider web, and still decide on your own. examples, right. uniswap, sushiswap, pancakeswap and tons of other dexs REALLY USE SO DIFFERENT UIs WOW! so they dont use basic token in and out swap card because there are soooo many ways to present a sensible swap? :) instagram, tiktok, yt shorts? no? full screen vertical media with engagement button on the side? no? no? but no? :) amazon? and rest 93842943829423834298432 e-commerce sites? image to title to cart to purchase, almost identical listing, and flow? again, no? :) okay and the last one.. coinbase, kraken and binance. maybe they are structurally similar too, because order books, charts, balances, and what not have natural places to go? but really. one thing. Samsung, after Apple? no? :) take good care of yourself, and your family. all the best.
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Talanoa (@talanoa_) reportedTalanoa is on your phone. Same inbox, organised by the people writing to you. Same promise: no Talanoa server in between. Your phone talks to Gmail, Outlook or your IMAP box directly. iOS + Android, in beta today.
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Akhilesh (theboomerang.co) (@akhileshbuilds) reportedIf your emails land fine for small companies but keep bouncing off enterprise targets, tackle that strategically. It's a common issue and most people mess this up. Here's what's going on. Big companies don't use plain Gmail or Outlook filtering, they sit behind email security gateways like Sophos, Proofpoint, and Mimecast. And those gateways check blacklists that consumer inboxes basically ignore, SURBL is a big one. So you can have a domain that looks totally healthy sending to SMBs, point it at a list of enterprise contacts, and suddenly you're getting hard 550 rejections. Despite of the same infra and copy, the outcome turn out to be completely different. It's because the enterprise side is running a stricter check which your SMB sends never triggered. A young domain is way more likely to trip this. If your domain's only a couple months old and you're going after enterprise, expect to get bounced at the gateway. To avoid this, don't send to enterprise targets on fresh domains. If enterprise is your game, age those domains longer and keep them cleaner than you would for SMB. Anyone running enterprise outbound, are you seeing the same gateway wall, or have you found a way around it?
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Muhammad Idrees 💙 (@IdreesBughio) reported4/ Then I connected the Gmail API—and everything changed. I expected emails to be simple strings. They weren’t. Many were complex HTML documents that rendered as broken layouts or raw code on the screen.
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Diaries of a trying youth (@ArtdeyDeji) reported@LilPeteOfLife YT music gives you 2 weeks free trial for every new Gmail account. After 2 weeks, I jusu log out my current account and login in a new one to enjoy another free 2 weeks.
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David Lermarl (@DavidLermarl) reported@0xPrajwal_ I didn't even know this was a problem. I'm looking to get a Samsung today so I'm guessing not to use the Gmail app. On iPhone I use the stock mail app.
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DB (@dercibald) reported@input_so Trying to sign up (Google login) and getting {"status":"fail","data":{"code":"UNKNOWN_INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR","name":"UnknownInternalServerError","message":"Error getting access token"}}. Tried both gmail and google apps (custom domain), same result. Help? :)
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jessica (@dje_djelyn) reportedGmail will just be threatening you up and down
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Jaxon (@jaxoncoder) reported01. Stop Gmail from hiding clients in Promotions Gmail thinks every business email is promo. How to fix forever: Open the client email in Promotions tab Drag it to Primary tab Gmail will ask "Do this for future emails?" Click Yes Or create filter: Settings > Filters > Create filter > From client email > Never send to Spam > Always mark as important > Categorize as Primary
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♪.ılı ♆ Jonas Weber † lılılı.𝄞 (@TCJonasWeber) reported//dawg my twitter logged me out of my accounts and it took me like 10 guesses to figure out which gmail i used for my Jonas parody account.. although 6 of those tries It told me there was an error 💔
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Chan (@ChanTheHuman) reported@TeamYouTube I'm still having the issue of a hacked gmail account that was falsely locked with parental controls. Please check my response to your original DM about this when possible. Again, really sorry that I keep pestering. I just want to be sure it's being looked into.
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Dave Turney (@wwwdaveturney) reportedHas Claude always been this terrible working w/ Google Workspace & Gmail? Seems like a fall-off lately.
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Sidhant Uthra (@sidhantuthra) reportedExcited for the launch of Grok Bot! I’ve been using it for the last few weeks. Some of my favorite things my Bots have done so far: - Found receipts in Gmail, filed my expenses in Ramp, and kept checking them until they were approved - Planned travel based on my preferences and loyalty accounts, figured out when I needed to leave, and updated my calendar - Coordinated with each other through a Chief of Staff Bot that only pings me when something actually needs my input - Traced issues with an internal tool through logs, triaged bugs and regressions, raised PRs, and let me know when they were ready for review Looking forward to continuing to find new ways to put my Bots to work. Check out the comments for a link to try @bot! @SpaceXAI
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Mahesh (@MaheshPawaar) reported2 months back, one of my friends gave me a referral at a good company. I matched almost the whole skill set except a few things, but I still applied. After around 4 days I received an email around 01:00 PM. I was too eager to check it, so I swiped the notification away because I was in a meeting at that time. Once the meeting finished I opened Gmail and checked it: "Thank you for your interest in the Software Engineer position with ..." That whole day I felt really bad. I was aware this might happen, but I was also hoping to get at least a few rounds so I could get an idea of how interviews are going now. Anyway, I got rejected straight away. After that I worked on a backend project for a while, and in the last week of July I started doing DSA seriously. It's been 2 weeks now, 26 problems and a 14 day streak, which is the longest I've managed. I don't know if it will pay off or not, but when the opportunity arrives I don't want to regret that I wasn't prepared.
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Owl Pharaoh (@Kanuote_) reportedGoogle has finally fixed the search glitch in the Gmail app on iOS 27 beta
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Liam Turner (@liam_turner_ai) reported5. Send Emails at Your Preferred Time (Schedule Send)! ⏰ Finished an email at 2 AM but want it to arrive at 9 AM? No problem! How to use it: • Once you’ve finished writing your email, click the Arrow (🔽) next to the "Send" button. • Select "Schedule send." • Choose your preferred date and time. Gmail will automatically send the email at the scheduled time.
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🄹🄳🄷 (@jdh) reported@ghhughes Same problem in Gmail search
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Oscar (@HeyOscarx) reportedA guy has used the same Gmail account for 11 years. Never opened Security settings past the initial password reset five years ago. His storage was "almost full" every few months, forcing him to delete old emails in a panic. Apps he'd used once, years ago, still had full access to his entire inbox. Two-factor authentication was set up, but on a recovery method he'd stopped using — an old phone number that wasn't his anymore. Google Photos was silently backing up in full quality, eating storage he didn't know he was paying for. And a "Security Checkup" notification had been sitting unread in his account for over two years. 5 mistakes. On the account that resets almost every other password he owns. A former Google Trust & Safety contractor, now doing personal cybersecurity consulting, watched him try to log into a work document and get locked out by a 2FA prompt going to a dead phone number and said: "You've been treating the account that controls your entire digital identity like a throwaway sign-up form. Your Google account has app-level access audits, storage breakdowns, backup controls, and a full security dashboard. You're using: the password you set in 2015. Let me fix 6 things in 7 minutes." Here are the 6 Gmail/Google account mistakes most people make — and the fix for each one.
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mikcin (@mikcinwashere) reported@justicecometh1 There’s 12 drops with a 16:01 timestamp. TWO of them are ZERO DELTAS to the precise TS 16:01:12 👉🏻Q2576: Dig deeper! Re_read drops re: Gmail + Xbox / PS comms [There is a reason why 'directly' after the drop MS shut down their entire network to erase 'collected & stored' data] Sometimes people need to see the future in order to save the past. Q 👉🏻 Q1564: What a wonderful day. Q
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Agbaje Automation. (@digital_ab98389) reportedI learned a very important lesson while building a proposal automation system with n8n + PandaDoc. The workflow was actually working: information came from our CRM, n8n created the proposal from a PandaDoc template, added the client and engineer as signers, filled in the project details, and created the document successfully. But when we tried to send it, PandaDoc returned a 403 error saying we were not allowed to send the document outside the organization. At first, it looked like our automation was broken. It wasn’t. 👀 The real problem was PandaDoc Sandbox. We were using a testing API key, and Sandbox has restrictions on who can receive documents during testing. Because of that, two Gmail addresses that looked perfectly valid could still be rejected. Once we understood the Sandbox rule, the solution became simple: we tested with the account/domain allowed by the Sandbox instead of rebuilding the workflow. This taught me something I now always check when debugging integrations: a 403 error doesn't always mean your code is wrong. Sometimes the platform is simply enforcing a rule on your account or environment. Understand the API rules before changing working code.
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Chevrette Network (@chevrette_net) reported@CenutM28185 Please send us an SMS via Gmail and describe your problem.
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mirha (@mirhakiaan) reportedCan't I login my account to another device because I'm not using Gmail? @fiverr
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Thomas Pigg (@pigg_thomas) reportedHonestly we need something better than Gmail Their search system sucks so bad Might be on the way to fixing all human problems if we get this one right
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ARMYmom⁷⊙⊝⊜ (@PuanARMY) reportedThis is how f¥cked up AI misconception and usually it happened to those who are not working in IT related.. AI is not about design and editing video.. i told my kids that went for an AI event and my youngest show her disappointment and why her mom go for an AI event.. and she told me AI are not good because why 'they' make a human character have 3 leg.. this is from a 10 year old kid.. understandable.. but grown-up? Gen Z? Even your camera and phone have AI in it.. gmail, maps, etc.. AI is not about design and editing video only.. someone need to do something about this.. it sounds stupid..
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Abhisek (@Abhisek_15_) reported@amazon I ordered Samsung M17 5G in exchange of Previous phone disclosed the pixel issue during the exchange process.The delivery agent didn’t inspect it properly. He demanded₹900 and qustnd the factory reset. He is also insisting I log in with Gmail before accepting the phone,
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Eric B (@sariente17) reported@sholard_mancity simply log out and do not stay logged in. or immediately access gmail from elsewhere and "log out of all devices". the emails were not in her laptop, but in the cloud. so, the issue is remaining logged in on the work laptop. what is so hard about this?
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Zoë (@zoecyber001) reportedThe mechanics of this breakdown are completely predictable: Strict password rules: Force people to change complex keys monthly, and they stop memorizing them. They write Spring2026! on a sticky note or cycle through predictable variations. Blocked file sharing: Lock down network drives too tightly, and employees start emailing sensitive spreadsheets to their personal Gmail accounts. Constant auth prompts: Bombard users with authentication requests, and they develop push fatigue, blindly clicking "Approve" on rogue login attempts just to clear their screens. The system becomes bulletproof on paper while active risk shifts into invisible, unmonitored dark channels.
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Blake Yoder (@blakeyoder) reported@thsottiaux Was using Claude Code in the terminal, religiously. Switched once I started using Codex on an EC2 server 1. I wish port-forwarding from the remote server to my client machine was more “built-in” and first class. I wrangle it to port forward more often than I’d like 2. There’s bugginess when synching sessions from my phone to my computer. Sometimes they sync, sometimes not at all 3. Love browser annotation, would be sweet if it could send an html block into the thread instead of an image 4. I want to manage multiple connector logins - being able to switch Gmail addresses would be a dream. Really love the product. Keep it up!