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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 (56%)
- Website Down (23%)
- Errors (21%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 Adelaide
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Sign in | 4 hours ago |
 Jackson
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Errors | 9 hours ago |
 Bridgend
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Sign in | 10 hours ago |
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Township of Evan
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Website Down | 12 hours ago |
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Huntington Station
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Sign in | 12 hours ago |
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City of Saint Louis
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Errors | 13 hours ago |
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Outlook.com Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Cheekyman81 (@1_hsm) reported@Outlook I’m struggling to get any traction from your support teams to regain access to my Hotmail account. Recovery forms are not working. Who do I escalate to? I have had this issue for 1 month now.
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Mister Kayne (@MisterKayne76) reportedOver 10 lockouts and endless appeals later, @Outlook is officially the most "secure" account I own—mostly because even I can't get into it. @Microsoft , please fix this verification loop. It’s exhausting.
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Roni (@srijansen39) reported@Outlook @MicrosoftHelps Hi Microsoft/Outlook team, I recently created a Microsoft account and got an @outlook.com email by default. But every email I send to Gmail addresses lands in the recipient's Spam folder, so they never see it. This is causing major inconvenience— Fix this
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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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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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Kevin Sar (@kevinsar) reported@Outlook y'all broke your android app today, check your reviews no one can login
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Calamity🇵🇸🕊️🇺🇦Jessica (@FaunaLovesFlora) reported@astrogrant @Microsoft @Outlook can you stop deep ********* AI that doesn't work down our work throats so you can pay more attention to your basic ******* programs? It's 2026 for ***** sake and you are MICROSOFT. Stop it. Just do better ffs.
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Ali Haider (@SAH_HAIDER) reported@Outlook 365: (top banner) You need to sign in to keep using mail Me: signs in Outlook 365: You signed out of your account. It’s a good idea to close all your browser windows. Me: YEAH! Exactly what I wanted!!!
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Testing the waters (@henri_smit43170) reported@Outlook seems to be going through some issues, is it only our organisation?
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Bob (@Bob_of_Baghdad) reported@Outlook What’s going on with email Templates missing? This has totally destroyed our work flow. Please fix asap.
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NorthCarolinaTrader (@NCarolinaTrader) reportedIs it just me, or has @Outlook become an absolute pile of garbage that has us loathing Microsoft Corporation. Bad software has become absolute garbage. I open this junk, my accounts are no longer set up, then you need a PhD in computer science to fix the problem.
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H_O_ward (@xbonz08) reported@Outlook Dear Microsoft. Your Outlook email program is performing beyond all expectations. I'm down to 50 spam emails a day. Thanks for the bang-up you do on eliminating spam.
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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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Mary N-T (@MaryNT16) reported@Outlook A quick scroll of your account shows others with the same problem. What is happening over there? The email in question is my main email that I've had for nearly 30 years.
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Taz 泰秀樂 (@tazorack) reported@Outlook Fix outlook please it is very bad constantly forcing you to change your password. After changing the password it don't work again. Makes no sense. @MicrosoftHelps
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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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Mental Masterpiece (@mentalmasterpie) reportedtheir is a problem in outlook mail app, its automatically log out after some days @Outlook
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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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Sam McDonald (@wsmcd) reported@Outlook @Microsoft Luckily I have a passkey and was able to sign out of all my accounts elsewhere. In fact I removed the password as a sign in option for my account now. Strongly recommend everyone do this!
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frostlord (@thefrostlord) reported@Outlook nice, you can’t sign even with the correct password now not even the owners of the email can sign in bravo @Outlook :(
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Griff (@Grifeweizen) reported@Microsoft Outlook and teams mobile apps not even opening on android galaxy s25...this is a serious issue @MicrosoftTeams @Outlook. It's a blank screen or an endless loading spiral.
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EDDG Creative (@EDDGcr) reported@Outlook Horrible tech support, having email issues, and everyone I get just passes me to another department. This is only going to get worse! #needalternative #trainbetter
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JC Castañeda (@xJoeyxKnucklesx) reported@sh69147 @Outlook I got same problem VaultEdgeX helped me
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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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J.Howard (@jhowardsc) reported@MicrosoftHelps @Outlook ... so is it down or...??? Keeps crashing. Constantly.. yall ok over there?
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Ryan Ricardo Dunkley (@ryanricardo76) reported@MandatesHonor @Outlook @LittlePoohBear_ Having the same issue too
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Old Man Axlzero (@axlzero666) reported@Outlook do you idiots have any idea how ******* broken your customer support system is it does nothing to help customers your menus run people around in circles on the phone and leads to disconnected number you can access online chat support and if someone steals your email you
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some **** (@imasket123) reported@Outlook fix ur customer service ****
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Dwight Young (@TheDwightYoung) reported@Microsoft @Office @Outlook Why does Outlook for Mac always have non-stop issues? Why is my desktop app unable to Sync or connect for hours, sometimes even the entire day, multiple times per month? There's some MAJOR issues inside Outlook for Mac OS and it's not just mine.
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CryptoKong (@CryptoKong59483) reportedHow embarrassing for @satyanadella showing how @Windows legacy bloat and tech debt is putting mission critical, national-visibility use of #Windows is broken. The @Outlook team should be scrambling.