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Outlook.com is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services from Microsoft. One of the world's first webmail services, it was founded in 1996 as Hotmail.
Problems in the last 24 hours
The graph below depicts the number of Outlook.com 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.
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Most Reported Problems
The following are the most recent problems reported by Outlook.com users through our website.
- Sign in (67%)
- Errors (16%)
- Website Down (16%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
|---|---|---|
 Utrecht
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Sign in | 19 minutes ago |
 Quito
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Sign in | 1 hour ago |
 Chanos-Curson
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Website Down | 5 hours ago |
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Quito
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Sign in | 5 hours ago |
 Charleroi
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Sign in | 6 hours ago |
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Paris
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Errors | 10 hours ago |
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Outlook.com Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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TONY SANDERSON (@EMANONF1) reported@TylerJs981 @Outlook Still down, won’t send me a code to my mobile phone!
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Alyse❤️ (@alyse3344) reported@MicrosoftHelps @Outlook @Microsoft Okay… it’s been 24 hours since I’ve had access to my emails. Fix your 💩
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Julia Ullrich (@JuliaUllrich13) reportedWhat the heck is up with @Outlook?? Been locked out of my email for two days and all I get is “this verification method isn’t working right now” and then it says I’ve requested too many codes! Also can’t contact support cause I can’t sign in or access your chatbot :(
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Jane Darling (@janeydarling1) reported@outlook We can't sign in. AGAIN. What's going on? And why is this a continuing problem? Please sort it out.
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MJ (@marifuenzalida) reported@Outlook I can’t login to my hotmail account. Not on my iPhone nor my desktop. This is a huge issue as I’ve had this email for 20+ years. When will they be resolved???????????????🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Kareem (@Kareem1702) reported@KyleDavey86 @Outlook @KyleDavey86 Were you able to fix this? I had the exact same issue with the robot and now I can’t even get that far anymore
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Dean (@dwpilgrim) reported@Outlook I’m having problems logging into my email on iPhone. Can someone help me fix this?
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Jgs (@Jgsbm5) reported@Outlook Where’s your updated?! What is there no communication. This is not just an IOS issue. This is on desktop as well! We’re locked out!
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James Alexander (@justjamess87) reported@Outlook how am i STILL not able to access my EMAILS??? Why are your services STILL DOWN?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Coming upto 48 hrs now! This is ridiculous and absolutely unacceptable. #outlook #outlookdown #hotmail ******* Joke!
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jamie (@jammyzizzle) reported@Outlook hi what is happening with email it’s been off for a week still can’t login what are you doing about it
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Brett Paddock (@Brett_Paddock) reported@Outlook @MicrosoftHelps Still trying to access my emails, Still in an endless loop of trying to sign in .. When will it end ..
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Nicky Cowell (@NickyCowell) reported@Gem83Col @Outlook @Microsoft Mine is also down but if you log into Hotmail via your web browser it should work. That’s the only way I can check my emails
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Luke Hearns (@LHearns2) reportedWell @Microsoft .. guess I better sort out all my **** that I use a hotmail account for and get it changed over to Gmail or other option. 3 days down is a little much when finances/trips/etc depend on info sharing via email. #microsoft #outlook #hotmail @Outlook @MicrosoftHelps
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Si Carrington ™️ 🏳️🌈🇮🇪 (@simoncarrington) reported@MicrosoftHelps I need an email address for an elderly friend of mine who has issues with his email. He cant access it and he has important documents on from his Wife who passed away years ago. I cant direct mail you on here. Can you help please?? @Outlook @Microsoft
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Jane Darling (@janeydarling1) reported@outlook down again? This is ridiculous
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alli. (@lovemesomeALLI) reported@faisal9051911 @Outlook Did they recover your acct/email you or were you able to reset your pw w no issues?
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Simbaaa (@simoes_romeo) reported@cjl85718 @Outlook did resolve the problem? I have the same issuee.
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Gemma Collins (@Gem83Col) reported@Outlook @Microsoft How much longer until the issue is resolved? I’ve not had access to my emails since yesterday morning. Absolutely ridiculous!!
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Jacob McClellan (@JacobAMcClellan) reported@Outlook Fix outlook on iPhone. Been down for over 12 hours now. Worry about this other stuff after you fix existing services.
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Lydia (@LitLat) reported@Microsoft & @Outlook Are You Still Down? This Is Crazy!!
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TONY SANDERSON (@EMANONF1) reported@Outlook Email still down here in the UK. How can I work like this?
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Kelsey Goodwin (@kelseyg2010) reported@MicrosoftHelps @Outlook when are you going to get your **** together and get the iPhone problem fixed? We're going on 3 days now.
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jen (@JackalopePoop) reported@Outlook wtf is going on with email login -- why is the valid password with the special characters that you made me specifically choose not enough for me to login from the same exact laptop I use every day?
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Asbjørn (@a_arknu) reported@davidfowl Please tell the @Outlook team. They don't seem to have gotten that memo and are still building that terrible web-based "new Outlook" for Windows while also building a nice native client for Mac. So they can do it properly, just not for your own platform...
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rhiannon ☕️ (@rhimckinley) reported@marlermelanie @Outlook having the same issue for 24hours. they told me it was “account specific” and that it’s a user error. still no answers and no fix. @MicrosoftHelps
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alli. (@lovemesomeALLI) reportednow I have to file a form to try to reinstate my email account all because of these ******* issues ON YOUR END @Outlook @MSFT365Status !!!!!!
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Oktay (@OktayAykut1) reported@MicrosoftHelps Locked out of my account for 3 days. Reset doesn’t work, verification fails. Recovery email & phone are linked. No support. Please fix this. @Outlook
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✨ Laura ✨ (@Laura23WL) reported@Outlook More the 24 hours later & I still can’t access my emails 🤬🤬🤬 can’t fix it via the ways you’ve mentioned & I need it for work.
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Jenny (@Rinatiic) reported@Outlook I genuinely don’t know if I was hacked or bc of this outage please fix it my god
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Ofelia lizcano (@Ofelializc12198) reported@Outlook have had my Hotmail for like 20 years and now I can’t get in. I hate the world we live in where I can’t just talk to someone and solve the problem. Literally everything is useless for support. Companies don’t care to help you anymore.