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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 (49%)
- Errors (26%)
- Website Down (25%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
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 London
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Sign in | 14 minutes ago |
 Cedar Rapids
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Sign in | 3 hours ago |
 Quito
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Sign in | 3 hours ago |
 Corbeilles
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Sign in | 5 hours ago |
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Olathe
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Errors | 5 hours ago |
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Havana
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Errors | 5 hours ago |
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Outlook.com Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Alexander Billy (@economalex) reportedIt seems extremely likely the US is experiencing either (a) a series of cyber attacks or (b) basic web infrastructure issues. Both @gmail and @Outlook have been down in the same week.
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star🧚🏻♀️ (@zxcbnmjklyf) reported@Outlook I am having a technical issue with my personal account. It is being incorrectly flagged as a child account. When I try to verify my age by clicking 'I am a parent', I immediately get a 'Logout Failed' error page on all devices and browsers.
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Le Hunch in Da Trunk: Part Deux (@PeonhuskLIVES) reportedHey @Outlook wtf is your issue w/ signing on ipads? The ONLY time y'all won't let me sign-in is when it's on an ipad. Also, STOP DEFAULTING TO SENDING VERIFICATION CODES TO AN ALTERNATE EMAIL, I KNOW MY PASSWORDS.
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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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HSM_81 (@1_hsm) reported@Outlook @Microsoft @MicrosoftHelps I’m Still struggling to regain access to my Hotmail account. Recovery forms still not working. What are my next escalation options please? 2/3 months and counting…
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sheenbean (@loisetwt) reported@Outlook I currently have two Outlook accounts for two different jobs. When I try to log into one of the accounts, the verification code notification keeps being sent to the other work account instead. please help me resolve this issue so I can access the correct account?
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Oluwanishola (@iam_Pacho) reportedCan you fix this damm bug!!! Its frustrating waiting for emails all day.... @Outlook
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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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Joe Fairbanks 🇮🇱 (@pasadena792) reported@stevesi First thing to do is get rid of the terrible @Outlook web wrapper and bring back Mail & Calendar.
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Snacktime (@Snacktime_17) reported@Outlook can you fix your spam filters. I keep marking emails as junk but seems your ML retraining and spam categorisation models are outdated. I'm half considering shifting my main account and using @gmail
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Florian Bador (@florianbador) reported@Azure : Remove this insanity of #AuthenticatorApp! I created a new biz account for some emailing, put the debit card, then the login forces to setup that stupid app, but I don't own a smartphone (and won't borrow anyone's). I tried to call support but got disconnected, calling again leads nowhere. At this point I could not even cancel the membership because I cannot login... Madness! Just let the customer decides what they want as 2FA!!! They know better, you control-freaks. So what am I supposed to do at this point? Cannot login, cannot setup auth app, cannot even cancel because cannot login, cannot open a case online because cannot login, and no "Use another way" option to skip this silly Auth-App setup, and no Desktop App either since I run exclusively on Linux.... Why so complicated??? Keep It Simple Stupid. @Microsoft @Outlook
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some **** (@imasket123) reported@Outlook fix ur customer service ****
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Charlie Stacey (They /Them) (@CharlieStaceyUK) reported@Outlook I’m a sole global admin fully locked out of my business account. The phone number allocated to my case has issues receiving calls. I desperately need this sorted so I can work. Is there anything more I can do, at the very least to change the phone number?
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MissLola67 (@Lopa8765) reported@Outlook I have sent you a DM I am completely locked out of my Outlook account and need urgent help. I reset my password and tried to use my recovery code, but I keep getting an error.
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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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Brendan R. Appel (@AppelLaw) reported@Outlook - Just now received an email sent to me on January 22, 2026 at 5:37 p.m. It arrived 1/28/2026 at 10:08 a.m. You claimed to have "fixed" your issues on 1/22 - clearly that was a lie. You had ONE JOB....
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Erin 🏳️⚧️ (@EliteErin21) reported@ShishirShelke1 @Microsoft @Outlook fix your product please
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Catalin (@catalinmpit) reportedIt looks like Outlook flagged emails for @Documenso, anyone know how I can fix this fast? cc @Outlook @MicrosoftHelps
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Wittig Lyon (@ibn_wittig) reported@hameedkanz @Outlook @Live Are you having installation problem or data loading problem?
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Hameedkanz (@hameedkanz) reported@ibn_wittig @Outlook @Live Sql server Yes.
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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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gee spang (@spangger) reported@Outlook How neat! Pity you CC and BCC lines are totally fvcking broken in the Android app and just do totally random auto populates and overwrites. #techGarbage
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🌟Aalyaa🌟 (@aa1yea) reportedWhy are @beehiiv newsletters not being delivered to @Outlook? Is it a glitch?
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Cheekyman81 (@1_hsm) reported@Outlook why are your teams refusing to help with my Hotmail account recovery and just asking me to fill out recovery forms again and again. This is not working. This is my own personal data which I have a right to. Please help me
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Cindy Bisset (@bisset_cindy) reported@Outlook Get back to the real work? Does anyone know what ******** is Microsoft’s problem. I have not been able to work for weeks . What ********
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Wendy Watkins (@WendyWendywat) reported@Outlook having real problems contacting customer support - how do I urgently get hold of someone please? URGENT
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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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rem (@honeyzerogo) reported@gmail @Outlook Some of us have jobs. U need to fix this
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JC Castañeda (@xJoeyxKnucklesx) reported@Anita52174838 @NikhilB27505303 @Outlook I got same problem VaultEdgeX helped me
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Daniel Burapavong (@TD2timeMVP) reported from City of Atlanta, GeorgiaTried the new Outlook app on Windows 11 for a few weeks and reverted back to classic cause of weird email formatting issues. In replies, my emails were returned all stretched out and looked out of whack. @Microsoft @Outlook @Windows