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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 (54%)
- Errors (23%)
- Website Down (23%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 55 minutes ago |
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Website Down | 2 hours ago |
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Errors | 2 hours ago |
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Sign in | 3 hours ago |
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Website Down | 3 hours ago |
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Sign in | 4 hours ago |
Community Discussion
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Outlook.com Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Brad (@blcdude1) reportedI’ve had awful luck with @outlook the past week. Every time I log in, I get told there have been too many failed attempts and I’m forced to reset my password. It makes the website feel very insecure, a major security issue.
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M$. FIT (@1BOMBDIGGITYBOO) reportedMy reminders ain’t reminding. Fix it! @Outlook
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susannah (@susannahj55) reported@Outlook do you have a UK based telephone support team , we are having issues but keep having to wait for your LA based team to start work before we can get help
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Jose Luis (@hellovaras) reported@Microsoft @Outlook Why can't you get your ToDo lists to share without any problems. You are a multi-billion dollar corporation that can't fix $2 problems. #Microsoft
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Carly Miller (@Carly_Miller7) reported@Microsoft @Outlook @MicrosoftHelps MICROSOFT SUPPORT IS TERRIBLE!!! For the past month I have been trying to contact someone for something soooooo simple. I want to delete my Microsoft 365 Business account but it will not let me due to enterprise apps I can’t remove. PLEASE HELP
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suckafree (@xanaxanadu_) reported@Outlook How am I supposed to reset my password or recover my account when the phone number option isn’t working. I keep getting an error that reads “this method is not working right now”. I can’t log in to get any help or support and the Get Help page does not address my issue.
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j (@janefedupwitho2) reported@Outlook I cannot access any of my outlook accounts! Is there an issue?
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Gerry L 🇨🇦 (@lee_gerry) reported@Outlook @policyislife I know, it's so f n'ing annoying where i have to change my password all the time. Soon I'll run out of words to use. Like get your head out of your, and fix this issue.
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NEO_England (@NEO_England) reported@Outlook Dear Microsoft. I’m locked out of my personal email, my authentication on my phone is linked as recovery for my business email. I get a prompt to enter my mobile so I can get a text to be greeted with ‘it’s not working right now’. I have forgotten my password and have tried countless hours trying to get my personal email up and running… one course of action was encountering AI chat which was useless! I am at the end of my tether now as it’s been over a month of trying and as you can appreciate, it’s incredibly disruptive. I have some very important personal emails that I can’t now access! I can’t speak to a human so how can you remedy this?
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Liam Donoghue (@LiamD21) reported@Outlook I am having trouble logging into my account. I changed my password on my desktop yesterday and trying to update on my phone and it won’t work. I then try and log into my desktop and it won’t let me as I have ‘tried to many times’.. this is ridiculous
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🌄🐣 (@2689j) reportedAlso, @Outlook I had to put these in my junk profile myself. Are you not able to tell these are spam? Cuz if not, we should just shut y'all down now and save everyone some time and anguish.
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HSM_81 (@1_hsm) reported@Outlook Hi, I have sent a DM as requested but I still have not heard back from you. Can you please tell me when I can expect to hear a response back? Recovery forms still not working for me.
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mel (@mel76151448) reported@Outlook how am I supposed to get back in my email account, when I can’t sign in. Tried all the links but no success. Run a business on this account. I need to speak to a human!!!
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A R Pᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ (@altieri_palorca) reported@Outlook I need my Outlook mailbox restored to a date before April 6. This was NOT deletion — the attacker overwrote the body of multiple emails. I urgently need this escalated to the engineering team before the server snapshots expire.
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Jason Starr, Consumer Ventures, Awakened Foods (@JasonStarr) reportedHad to finally upgrade from "Legacy" @Microsoft @Outlook on a Mac to "new" Outlook (because old Outlook kept crashing my computer due to what I must assume was a massive a memory leak) Just miserable. Stupid, basic stuff still broken or mission. Formatting of signatures is totally messed up. Can't turn on/off hidden paragraph markers when editing email. Can no longer click within an email to see the conversation or related emails (this is a huge loss). This product has been out since 2020. It has been the default email client since 2022. HOW CAN IT STILL BE THIS BAD!?! Or do they just hate Mac users that much?
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Christina B Juras (@chrissycee75) reported@Outlook please fix your web-based calendar so it doesn't default to all-day meetings
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CA Shrenik Gandhi (@shrenikmgandhi) reported@Outlook @MicrosoftIndia I am struggling to get access to my official mail id since past more than 3 months due to technical issue where i am not getting authentication code. Raised issue through my vendor but they are also not getting any response.
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Lewis Fox (@Lewi54ox) reported@Microsoft @Outlook tried signing into my account on my Xbox. Couldn’t so had to try sign in on my Hotmail. Couldn’t, tried resetting password on the app gave ALL MY OWN CORRECT INFO. Couldn’t, tried calling for help, got told to sign in online to reset password. Honestly🤬
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em-j rabbitwolf (@emjrabbitwolf) reported@Microsoft @Outlook I’m currently suffering ffrom being unable to access your consumer products ie hotmail (now Outlook) email accounts via the web. No, I don’t use the apps for health reasons. I can’t sign in to any of my UK based accounts at all! Help great appreciated.
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some **** (@imasket123) reported@Outlook fix ur customer service ****
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johnr (@johnr1593426) reported@Outlook I can't login in my msn email ???
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Heflin Elementary (@HeflinHounds) reportedReporting @Outlook outage.
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Cindy Bisset (@bisset_cindy) reported@Outlook I think everyone who has a complaint about Microsoft (because I can not be the only one), and their lack of customer service and related productivity issues should get together and let’s Sue them. I have paid multiple times for this ****
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Louis Arthur-Brown (@LouisArthu66843) reported@Outlook @Microsoft looks like the Outlook mobile app is experiencing widespread problems - stuck loading, all troubleshooting failing.
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Betsy Robinson (@betsyjulia) reported@Outlook HELP! I cannot sign in to Outlook. It's permanently marked closed because of too many attempts with wrong password. When I try to change password, my 2nd verification cell phone attempt gets "this method is not available." I cannot find help anywhere.
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Richard Gozinya (@browneye_winker) reported@Outlook Are there issues with Outlook on iOS 26.4? I’ve been getting delayed notifications for a couple weeks. The email will show in my inbox, but I’ll get the iOS notification a couple minutes after.
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Fai (@faithedragon) reported@MicrosoftHelps @Outlook Not being able to drag and drop emails and attachments into SharePoint is a huge limitation for collaborators. Why can’t a trillion dollar company fix this?
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Ali. Me (@AlisonWagstaff3) reported@Outlook how come outlook is so awful having taken over Hotmail. It's slow, it's layout is terrible. I absolutely hate it!!
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Symone (@oxxSimmyxxo) reported@Outlook hello I’ve been trying to contact support on how to resolve my login issue, please can someone help me out
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Liz (@licenia) reported@Outlook I haven’t been able to log in to my email for a few days now. I see that others have the same issue, when will it be resolved??