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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.

Outlook.com Outage Chart 04/01/2026 11:15

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Outlook.com users through our website.

  1. Sign in (52%)

    Sign in (52%)

  2. Errors (24%)

    Errors (24%)

  3. Website Down (24%)

    Website Down (24%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:

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City Problem Type Report Time
United StatesSanta Cruz Sign in
United StatesPlymouth Errors
United StatesPatten Website Down
United StatesUnion City Website Down
United StatesBirmingham Sign in
United StatesFairfield Sign in
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Outlook.com Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • InvestorHex HEXInvestor 🐢 | 5555 Club | Maximus (@InvestorHex) reported

    @Outlook hey when you going to fix your app on iOS? I see you just been sending the normal automated response to people! Sort your 💩out!

  • Tech_updates0 Tech_updates! (@Tech_updates0) reported

    @Outlook I am having issues with Outlook on my iOS Mail app. Had a search on Twitter and seems like many others also have this issue. Please can you sort this out ASAP. Thanks

  • InvestorHex HEXInvestor 🐢 | 5555 Club | Maximus (@InvestorHex) reported

    @JuliaEason @Outlook And me but they ignored me! They will blame it on you! They clearly got an issue.

  • Murky_watters Murky_waters (@Murky_watters) reported

    @BillyHoward423 @Outlook There's definitely an outage. I haven't been able to receive emails since the 11th.

  • sasamonica0215 hahamonica (@sasamonica0215) reported

    @Outlook @Tech_updates0 My outlook live and office mails are both not working

  • sasamonica0215 hahamonica (@sasamonica0215) reported

    @Outlook My hotmail and my edu email(which is an outlook office 365 email account)is out on my iPhone from noon today. Also I tried to log into the web version of outlook from my browser from computer, the hotmail one is not working no matter what, 500 error keeps popping up

  • DonnyMac19 Donald MacGregor (@DonnyMac19) reported

    @Itsacon10 @Outlook Loads of people are having the same problem. The articles they send are no help at all.

  • finnegan615 Finnegan (@finnegan615) reported

    @Tech_updates0 @Outlook Can’t use Hotmail on my iPhone email keep getting “conection to the server failed”

  • TashaSaul Natasha Saul (@TashaSaul) reported

    @JadeDonnelly11 @Outlook Same here. Updated my phone, deleted & added the account again, still getting the cannot connect to server message 😩

  • JadeDonnelly11 Jade (@JadeDonnelly11) reported

    Anyone else having @Outlook issues with trying to connect to the server on IOS? Tried everything bar a full factory reset which I refuse to do.

  • LordWill0722 Will (@LordWill0722) reported

    @Outlook iOS mail app not connecting. Website works fine. Other non-outlook accts are fine. Removed and re-added account on iOS > Connection error. Seems other users as well. Happening all Saturday #iOS #mail #hotmail

  • kelseyg2010 Kelsey Goodwin (@kelseyg2010) reported

    @Outlook any chance you can tell me why my outlook is all of a sudden saying "connection to server failed" and all of my stuff is gone from my mail app on iphone? Everything works on the outlook app & website but not the mail app.

  • JuliaEason Julia Eason (@JuliaEason) reported

    @outlook what’s going on. Been getting error connecting to server on my iPhone for several hours. Please fix!

  • BillyHoward423 Billy HowRad 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 (@BillyHoward423) reported from Dumont, New Jersey

    @Outlook is Outlook down? Having issues sending receiving emails.

  • KateNowHarrison Kate Harrison (@KateNowHarrison) reported

    Help me Twitter! Text being auto-deleted in Outlook (not just when I type) and all emails being deleted. I can’t find a fix online. Can anyone on here help? @Microsoft @Outlook

  • shiborilady Vicki Ivancik (@shiborilady) reported

    @JadeDonnelly11 @Outlook I’m having problems too. My tech friend said to give it a day, it will straighten out.

  • BillyHoward423 Billy HowRad 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈 (@BillyHoward423) reported from Dumont, New Jersey

    @Kaylu07 @Outlook I was going to say there’s definitely an outage. Don’t make it seem like I’m making this up. And now that I’ve searched it hundreds of people are also experiencing issues!

  • tvsucksballs Jimmy Harris (@tvsucksballs) reported

    @JuliaEason @Outlook Same issue, and it states there’s no issues on their site..

  • kevinro53650699 kevin roman (@kevinro53650699) reported

    @Outlook @Tech_updates0 What are you talking about. Theres hundreds of people who cannot connect to server on mail ios

  • Kaylu07 Kelsey Lucero (@Kaylu07) reported

    @Outlook @BillyHoward423 iPhones haven’t been able to receive mail for about 8 hours because the server isn’t connecting. There is an outage. Fix it.

  • tvsucksballs Jimmy Harris (@tvsucksballs) reported

    @Outlook @Tech_updates0 Well something isn’t right for sure, specific servers must be down.

  • adam_8399 Ajay💸 (@adam_8399) reported

    @tvsucksballs @Outlook Same problem here all day long

  • tvsucksballs Jimmy Harris (@tvsucksballs) reported

    @Outlook The service is down on iOS, and I’m not alone, check what’s going on please. iPhone 13 Pro Max latest iOS update.

  • iMiah_ iMiah (@iMiah_) reported

    @Outlook @JuliaEason Same issue here, any update? I've tried everything in the link to no avail.

  • arman19981 WOLFY (@arman19981) reported

    @kevinro53650699 @Outlook @Tech_updates0 Yeah same here thought I was the only one must be a glitch

  • LordWill0722 Will (@LordWill0722) reported

    @Outlook All fixed up. Must of been some server issues Saturday. I can connect and retrieve mail fine now via the mail app. Thanks for replying

  • BakJordan1 Jordan Bak (@BakJordan1) reported

    @Outlook iOS mail error all day

  • JadeDonnelly11 Jade (@JadeDonnelly11) reported

    @finnegan615 @Tech_updates0 @Outlook Same, only my Hotmail address having this issue on IOS

  • MikeSilvaAlien Mike Silva (@MikeSilvaAlien) reported

    @Outlook is there anything wrong, because I keep having to login for email, using iPhone?

  • TimLeics Tim (@TimLeics) reported

    Hello, @MicrosoftUK @Outlook my emails are not coming through on iphone/iPad. I keep getting a cannot connect to the server issue. Is this a known fault?