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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 (50%)
- Errors (26%)
- Website Down (25%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 42 minutes ago |
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Website Down | 6 hours ago |
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Website Down | 8 hours ago |
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Website Down | 8 hours ago |
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Website Down | 9 hours ago |
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Sign in | 10 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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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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Chris Pred (@ChrisPred) reported@keeganlanier @Outlook I haven’t noticed it myself as I use Outlook on my iPad Pro with a M365 account. Are you connecting to Exchange server or another email provider such as Google or iCloud? I am thinking it could be a sync issue with IMAP or something along those lines.
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Brian Fontana (@CodeFoxtrot) reported@IAmTimCorey @Copilot @Outlook I uninstalled copilot and m365 last week, will try again in the future! I think the first biggest issue they need to fix, is why there are two copilot apps that appear to be similar, but are self-described to be different, and then you need to have two on your system. Doesn't make much sense!
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Shawn Farrell (@farrellshawnp) reported.@Microsoft .@Outlook hold notices from a public library shouldn't be the innocent targets of your rate limiting. Please fix this!
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Bradley Frank (@addos) reported@Outlook what is the deal with this error? UTC Date: 2026-01-30T15:20:21.838Z Client Id: 5E8BAB74F0F24FB4B05D3C3EFFC064FB Session Id: 6299cf67-9301-493d-9437-0198418fae88 Client Version: 20260116004.05 BootResult: configuration Back Filled Errors: Unhandled Rejection: Error:
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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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maybe: rockie/pops 🤠 (@gooddadgenes) reportedit seems you have bigger issues, @Microsoft i guess I’ll wait…😒 cc: @Outlook
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Cédric Krier (@cedrickrier) reported@Outlook your email server is sending wrong error message. WTF? "blocked using Spamhaus. To request removal from this list see" plainly wrong.
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Stewart 🏴 🇨🇦 (@Stewmeak) reported@Outlook Yet another glitch today. Icon says I have mail but nothing unread in there
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EP✨ (@EllapaigeMusic) reported@Outlook Hi there, I’ve sent you an email about a problem I’ve been having, thanks!
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Ture Anderson (@tanfrancisco) reported@Outlook I was able to fix the problem using another computer and a different network.
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Wittig Lyon (@ibn_wittig) reported@hameedkanz @Outlook @Live What's the error message? Is it csv or?
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Sam Golding (@SamG0996) reported@Sad_Saad @Outlook Yep I am also having same problems and not getting text message. Have you got sorted yet? Any suggestions @Outlook
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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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Tucker Goodrich (@TuckerGoodrich) reportedGmail search doesn't work. Outlook is far better and if it's not working, you Exchange administrator is doing a bad job. —Current unhappy @Gmail user and former Exchange administrator and intensive @Outlook user.
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HSM_81 (@1_hsm) reported@Outlook Can I check that this is actually being taken seriously @Outlook as no one has responded to my DM which you requested 2 days ago. Just to clarify I cannot access my emails as your automated recovery process is not working for me and your supporting teams are refusing to help.
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J.T. (@Joseph3T) reported@Outlook customer service is absolutely terrible…
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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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rem (@honeyzerogo) reported@gmail @Outlook Some of us have jobs. U need to fix this
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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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Monica Rangel (@MonicaLRangel) reported@Outlook Have been having issues with outlook all day today is there something going on?
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Rapp Ma (@Summer1812660) reportedDear @Outlook idk why all Of a sudden I’m having trouble logging into my email I’ve had for 20+ years but thank you! It was all spam anyways. I have no email and I’m not changing my password again.
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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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Heflin Elementary (@HeflinHounds) reportedReporting @Outlook outage.
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ShellyConfetti2 (@HappySparkles18) reportedHey @Outlook are you having issues? My app isnt working i even uninstall it.
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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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BhagsNStonks (@BhagsNStonks) reported@retrobike_c16 @Outlook Cut down your image size in paint or preview in Mac. Then make the signature in word. Only way I could get our team to have consistent signatures
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JC Castañeda (@xJoeyxKnucklesx) reported@Anita52174838 @NikhilB27505303 @Outlook I got same problem VaultEdgeX helped me
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Nowshad Hossain Rahat (@nhrdev) reported@mdnlabs login to @Outlook :/ even valid 2FA methods stops working
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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!!!