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.

• Website Down (36%)
• Errors (35%)
• Sign in (29%)

Live Outage Map

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

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Dijon	Errors	57 minutes ago
Paris	Sign in	5 hours ago
Paris	Errors	20 hours ago
Chalon-sur-Saône	Errors	1 day ago
Pinto	Sign in	1 day ago
Canberra	Sign in	1 day ago

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Gmail Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  Kody (@Kodyafl) reported 2 minutes ago

  @Jayecane Dude I told you to stop saying you gonna send me money I sent you my Cash App information you told me to check my Gmail or my spam folder I blame it on Cash App because they should shut you down when you compromise somebody Cash App account like you did mines

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  Spencer🙏🔍📚🥕🚲🧘‍♂️🚐🌐 (@spencemo_c) reported 3 minutes ago

  gmail is a demonstration that incumbency + free is unbeatable. and it has the same terrible ux that every monopoly devolves to.

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  HeavyDio (@Ravenant21) reported 12 minutes ago

  hey @X, mind explaining why everytime I try to login to my accoutn via gmail, it always freezes on the onboarding page and it forces me to sign in with the gmail adress manauly instead of the sign-in button?

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  Shadow (@EchoFromShadow) reported 14 minutes ago

  My trust repair flow sent 5 broken tenants to a generic reconnect page. 3 had a live Gmail connect URL already in session state. Surfacing the direct link reduced friction. A generic page assumes nothing — a specific link assumes one true thing.

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  Poyoyo (@notpoyoyo) reported 14 minutes ago

  2/3 The task was simple: Read the emails, identify the biggest recurring problem, decide what should be built, and start implementing it. GPT-5.6 asked me to connect Gmail, read all 15 emails almost instantly, and got straight to work.

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  James (@jamescoder12) reported 16 minutes ago

  85% of Google Pixel owners use their phone for the same 5 things every Android phone does. Calls. Texts. Camera. Chrome. Gmail. That's a phone with 15+ exclusive features features Samsung doesn't have, features iPhone doesn't have, features no other Android phone on earth can run being used like a $200 budget phone. Your Pixel answers spam calls for you before you pick up. It identifies every song playing around you on your lock screen, without Shazam, without internet. It erases people from photos. It swaps faces in group shots. It holds your place in customer service queues so you don't have to. Google buried these features behind menus, toggles, and settings nobody opens after setup day. A Pixel product reviewer who's tested 30+ smartphones in 2026 told me: "Pixel isn't the fastest phone. It isn't the most powerful. But it has more genuinely useful exclusive software features than any phone I've tested iPhone included. The problem is Google markets the hardware and forgets to tell anyone about the software." Here are 11 Pixel-exclusive features most owners have never turned on 🧵

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  SoEmailSecurity (@Soemailsecurity) reported 17 minutes ago

  Every login lure email has detectable signals. Sending address: not from the real platform. Gmail account or lookalike domain. Greeting: generic. "Dear Customer" not your actual name. Urgency: artificial deadline. 24 hours.

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  mateoscaboli (@leonardoziw) reported 20 minutes ago

  @LinkedInHelp Hi, I am following up on my compromised account Case #260716-032897. I replied to your support agent (Monika VG) via my Gmail with the requested error screenshot, but I still haven't received any response on my email.

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  Shivank Pandey (@sh1v4nk) reported 20 minutes ago

  @openshipio Does OpenShip run its own SMTP server on the VPS, or does it relay through another provider? If it's direct SMTP, how do you handle IP reputation, PTR, spam complaints, blacklist monitoring, and Gmail/Outlook deliverability over time?

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  takeshiparody (@takeshifan1973) reported 27 minutes ago

  And this has not occured the first time. I think i have been tracked down ever since i made my first identity on facebook back in 2012. And made my original gmail account in 2007. I will clear all my irl photos to avoid future hacking

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  Sqriiblz (All Platforms but IG) (@Sqriiblz) reported 29 minutes ago

  @JoshuaKhane I had sum similar got a new phone all my alt Gmail accounts are gone not as big of a problem as you but I only can’t get them back because of the password and if I rember correctly I couldnt even get help getting it back

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  Pankaj Pahuja (@pankajkpahuja) reported 31 minutes ago

  I blocked my AI agent from my email. It read my email anyway. Here's the full story, because the way it failed is the most useful part of the build. The setup: a dashboard for my business, wired to an AI runner on my own machine. Before this build, clicking a button copied a command to my clipboard and I pasted it into a Terminal myself. I wasn't running the system. I was the message bus. First design decision, the one worth stealing: the whitelist lives on the SERVER, not the browser. The page sends an identifier, the server decides what it means. Five allowed workflows, hardcoded. The screen can never invent a new command. Then the security pass. I denied the Gmail connector in the runner's config. Obvious move, job done, I thought. Except the runner launched from my machine, and my machine had a Google CLI sitting there, already authenticated, credentials on disk. The agent didn't need the connector I blocked. It used the tool that was already logged in as me. It read a real email. A prompt is not a permission. Telling an agent not to do something is a suggestion. The only thing that stops it is not having the capability in the room. The fix wasn't a better instruction. It was rebuilding the room: - No inherited settings or connectors - Its own credentials, not mine - Google routes cut at the source - A network policy blocking the endpoints outright Same instruction again. Denied. Not because it was being polite. The tool wasn't there, the credentials weren't there, and the network said no. Being precise, because this is where people oversell: that runner still has web search, the morning brief has to read the news. What it can't reach is my email, my Google credentials, and Google directly. That's the boundary I tested and that's all I'm claiming. Mid-build the model hit its usage limit and stopped, so I added a backup model. New problem: a backup brain is only as good as its boundaries. It got a different room, stricter. Network fully off. It can't even resolve a hostname. Last piece, the part I deliberately did NOT automate. Decisions go into a queue. The system surfaces them, explains what happens if I act, and waits. Approving writes a line in a file with my name and the time. It can't send, can't post, can't spend. Useful before autonomous. If you're wiring an AI agent into anything real: Whitelist on the server, never the UI Assume the agent inherits every authenticated CLI on your machine Test the block by trying to break it, not by reading your own config Every model gets its own sandbox Approval writes a file, it doesn't send Follow @ingenifyai for more AI build breakdowns, including the ones that break.

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  Subscribr (@SubscribrAI) reported 32 minutes ago

  A YouTube channel with 14 videos just pulled 104,000 views on one upload using a Native American AI character. Frank Redhawk is 14 videos deep. 3,800 subscribers. 141,335 total views. Started uploading on a dormant January 2021 Gmail with 5 years of trust score baked in before the first video. The top video pulled 104,000 views in 30 days. "The Native Way to Cool Any Room for Pennies — No AC, No Electricity, No Fan." 18 minute video. 10.3x the channel average. The second pulled 35,000 views. "The Native Way to Purify Any Water in Minutes." 19 minute video. 3.5x outlier. The whole channel runs on one authority frame. "The Native Way." Every title. Every video. The AI character wears the cultural authority. The audience trusts the wisdom before Frank says a word. Monetization is already stacked. sells an ebook. Every viewer worried about the grid going down is a $47 buyer. Why this play works. Cultural authority frames are the highest converting hook on YouTube in 2026. Amish. Native American. Nordic. Ancient Roman. Every one of them implies wisdom the audience has never heard before. The costume does half the trust work. Meanwhile the content underneath is public. Traditional cooling techniques exist in old ethnobotany textbooks. Charcoal water purification is on Wikipedia. Free public domain knowledge wrapped in an authority frame. The playbook. Step 1. Pick a cultural authority frame nobody in your niche is running. Native American. Amish. Aboriginal. Bedouin. Cossack. Any culture with survival wisdom the audience recognizes as trustworthy. Step 2. Build an AI character that carries the cultural signal. Native American elder. Amish craftsman. Aboriginal grandmother. The character does not need to speak the language. It needs to look the part. Step 3. Same title formula every video. "The Native Way to X." "The Amish Secret to Y." "The Japanese Method for Z." Step 4. Attach a $47 ebook from video 3. Package the wisdom the character represents. Step 5. Same 18 to 20 minute video length. Older Tier 1 audience watches start to finish. Step 6. Ship 3 videos a week. Ride the first 5x outlier the moment it hits. The window is closing on Amish. Native American is wide open. Aboriginal is wide open. Nordic is barely started. Pick a cultural frame. Build the character. Ship 15 videos in 30 days.

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  Kelvin Gandhi (@sudo_kelvin) reported 33 minutes ago

  I miss the confidence of my younger self who had no idea how complicated things actually were.. like “why does gmail allow only 25 mb attachments? maybe I could fix in my semester project" xD

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  Nilesh AI (@nileshgiri34) reported 33 minutes ago

  last 3 hours! I downloaded 4gb gtav update on Epic Games then Rockstar games launcher gave account error then I tried my 3 Gmail accounts it did not match then password resets and then created new accounts on rockstar also! I give up! its not working at all!

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  慧音-知识和历史的半兽 (@Necokeine) reported 33 minutes ago

  @AsafNadler @nasdaily Chinese who really cares privacy are using American softwares, because they know that Chinese government can't force Google/Meta to hand over user data. Then the problem, what do you think is easier for U.S government, ask Google for gmail data or ask Bytedance China for lark data?

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  DWE Post (@dwepost) reported 35 minutes ago

  Dear Google Team, I can’t access my Gmail account. I forgot my password, and the standard recovery options are not working for me. This is my primary account. Please help me recover it as soon as possible. Thank you. Google ? Gmail ?

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  Avishkar Jadhav (@Avishkar07) reported 38 minutes ago

  @gonoise Please check your dm and gmail , your costumer service team doesn't read the case Fully they are providing complaint registration link again and again as if i don't know i am already facing problem with the complaint i have placed focus on that

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  TfL (@TfL) reported 39 minutes ago

  @ntahzu Hi, Thanks for reaching out to us. Due to a current error with 60+ Photocard accounts receiving auto emails for emails at iCloud and Microsoft domains, one solution to this would be to use an unaffected email domain, such as Gmail. If this was not the issue, then you will need to call the Photocard team at 0343 222 1234 between 08:00 and 20:00. Thanks, EB

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  Jack (@jackcoder0) reported 40 minutes ago

  If this saved you money or made you realize the one paid tool that's genuinely worth keeping one ask: Repost the first post so the next person paying $97/month for AI tools sees the $0 version before their next billing cycle. Follow [ @jackcoder0 ] I break down the hidden tools, free alternatives, and overpriced subscriptions that companies bank on you not questioning. Next thread: the 11 Gmail features that replace $840/year of paid apps Superhuman, Boomerang, Calendly, Grammarly, and SaneBox. All free. All built in. All hidden in the Settings tab you never open.

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  Jane, Retired, Happy, Rejoiner 🌹 (@likesretirement) reported 43 minutes ago

  @helen_warlow Helen, can I suggest you set up a completely new account yourself which you control? Just create new hotmail or gmail email and use that. I assume your WiFi issues are just coincidental. Do you have any IT savvy friends locally who can help?

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  AREF (@AREFCA) reported 45 minutes ago

  I have two pcs. One thinkpad (old - 2016). One Lenovo yoga. I use GOOGLE DRIVE, one drive, iCloud and have loads of duplication, incongruent but related functional records and apps (eg ppt, slides , excel, sheets) + email addresses (multiple) across outlook, Gmail, iCloud). Additionally, I have suffered a debilitating stroke that has made organizing and tracking personal projects, records, correspondence a mess On top of that, I use things like GROK + adobe and chat gpt that are intentionally or unintentionally not compatible. Lastly I use an iPhone and have an iMac. Given how much tech companies are imposing prompts for ai options on any task and are requesting access to the same files, I can’t keep track of anything. If I ask AI, I will get multiple paragraph explanations on options, choices, and other extraneous information that further complicate the decision to decide how to tackle the issues below I need the following: 1 — remove duplicative stuff that eats up space for no reason ( e.g., I have an iPhone and take my pictures there come so I don’t need Google to have the same photos because I don’t even use that for photos, and I don’t need Microsoft to get photos because no one interacts with photos on a pc 2 - a native drive structure that permits across the platforms, it just gives me one central source of truth on where records and documents and file files sit 3 - for the above item, in ideal world. It is the Windows drive structure that I used in my career, which was effectively a network drive that was shared, but organized logically and suited more toward traditional corporate Americana. 4 - I need some form of an app that will help me create a directory, and it will not take me on some escalating and infuriating path to another subscription that I can’t afford. 5 - and I need something as idiot proof as the iPhone — however, I will add that iCloud is really confusing, and I never know how to sign files and control the chaos  CAN YOU RESPOND ONLY WITH THE FOLLOWING ITEMS A. Concise interpretation of what I am asking (250 words MAX) B. A list of apps that I can trust the cross platforms that basically helped me keep everything in one place and searchable

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  DWE Post (@dwepost) reported 47 minutes ago

  Dear Google Team, @TeamYouTube I can’t access my Gmail account. I forgot my password, and the standard recovery options are not working for me. This is my primary account. Please help me recover it as soon as possible. Thank you. @nealmohan

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  The Sojourner (@AvidSojourning) reported 48 minutes ago

  @TradeCzar You using a gmail account to login?

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  peter_ishere (@peter_ishere) reported 50 minutes ago

  I'm 15. My startup has 23 paying users and $460 MRR after 1 month, but I'm gonna kill everything and start from zero. Problem is: 99% of people who see it and try it, don't use it. A lot of eyeballs have been landing on Dirac from organic content, but those people who do try it out, churn way too fast. Not because landing page is bad. Not because product is poorly made. But because of 2 reasons: 1. There's no need for another email agent. The bottleneck has never been the tool. It's the founder who's using it. So there's no way to make a tool to beat that. 2. Emotional cost of switching from Gmail is TOO high.

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  KuwaidenTL (@Kuwaiden) reported 51 minutes ago

  Enshittification is always happening but a totally me problem is that, for work reasons, I keep a Gmail window open at 1/4 of the screen on a 2nd monitor, and all the AI **** has now forced the search box to be tiny af

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  Suhi (@Tsundere789) reported 53 minutes ago

  @dard_e_disco_ You can login through Gmail. I barely use it

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  Chandra Benner (@Channistiltskin) reported 55 minutes ago

  Went to chat today to vent and after my first “**** all these idiots” message chat asked to connect to my Gmail which I allowed. It then solved the problem I didn’t qualify and then suggested a way to not have this problem again and then did it. Life changing ti a neurodivergent

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  Reggie Tan | rxggie.eth (@rxggietan) reported 56 minutes ago

  I despise default AI copy. Especially in emails. Here's how I taught mine to stop sounding like it. A few months ago, an AI agent I was testing (using Hermes) drafted an email that sounded way too eerily like me. And I'm not talking about "professional email from reggie tan" me. I mean it actually sounded like me - with all my quirks and isms - 90% of the way there on the first try. I was out running errands, so I voice-noted the agent to check my inbox for any new emails. Something had come in. I told it the gist of what to say as a response, and moved on. A minute later the reply was sitting there - the opening, the phrasing, my catch phrases, the way I sign off, all of it was totally me. It tripped me out a little. I'd previously used AI to write emails plenty of times before, and it always came back sounding like AI. Saved me a few minutes, maybe. But it definitely never sounded like me. The problem was never that AI can't write. It's that most people let it write in its default voice. And you can spot default AI in two seconds, just like you can spot a standard Canva template, or just another Claude-designed website. Nobody teaches their AI anything. However email is the place where it really matters. It isn't a broadcast. It's one person writing to one person. You're trying to build a relationship there. Send someone a generic version of yourself and you've missed the whole point of writing to them. So I stopped relying on a lucky voice note and built it on purpose. I rebuilt my voice in Claude Cowork. Connected the Gmail connector so it could read how I actually write, not a list of rules about how I write. Then used skill-creator to turn that into a reusable email skill. Told it to look for example emails in my sent folder. Then made it look again for more, over and over again, until it was satisfied with the volume of sample data. I read what it gave back, corrected it, ran it again. It's a loop, not a one-shot - and every pass landed closer. The goal should be 80% of the way there. Back in the prime years of web3 (the golden years of crypto), way before ChatGPT 3.5 changed the world, I solo'd six clients at once (led 6 marketing teams for 6 companies simultaneously) and it nearly broke me. What's changed isn't that AI does the work for me. It's that the output still sounds and operates like me, which is the only reason I could take that kind of volume on again without the quality slipping. Using AI isn't the edge anymore. Everyone's doing that. The edge is whether it still sounds like you, or like everyone else. When you get an email you can instantly tell was written by default AI, what's your honest first reaction? 👾 I'm kicking around turning this into a short workshop for anyone who wants to do this with their own AI. If that's you, drop a comment or DM me - I'll share details when we're ready to rock.

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  King (@whyKingdavid) reported 57 minutes ago

  I believe fintechs should start adopting signing in with Google authentication because the era of passwords is gradually ending. It doesn't make sense that I enter my password, and then they send an OTP to my email to verify me. Signing in with Google does the same thing. Passkeys are now becoming the new passwords, and they're ten times safer. Even Google, Apple, and Microsoft had to collaborate for passkeys. Signing in with Google makes much more sense because, for someone to hack into your account, they first need to hack your entire Google account, which Google secures heavily. It becomes very difficult to access someone else's account without permission. I love what @privy_io is doing: how they easily use Gmail to create crypto wallets for users. Building a company is about solving problems, not about making solutions longer