Gmail is down across the world — but not for everyone

Gmail is downwardly across the world — only non for everyone

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Are you having problems with Gmail, or some other of Google's many, many apps? You're not lonely, because users take been reporting problems accessing their Gmail account on both mobile and desktop devices.

Issues seem to exist affecting the ability to log into accounts across the U.Due south., U.K. and Europe. What'south more it's not restricted to Gmail, with Google's own status page noting problems with the Google Conversation, Meet, Calendar, and Groups.

Co-ordinate to Down Detector issues began at around three a.m. ET/eight a.m. GMT, and slowly grew in the stitch to 5 a.k. Google has confirmed that in that location is an consequence, with its full general status folio claiming that: "We are currently investigating an result affecting user access to multiple services affecting users in Europe."

Meanwhile the Gmail Workspace dashboard explicitly confirms that some users are unable to access their Gmail accounts — cutting them off from all their emails in the process. TechRadar Pro also notes that two factor login prompts are running more than slowly, and resulted in an mistake in some cases, farther frustrating the login issues.

The bug haven't affected anybody, though. Only one fellow member of the Tom'southward Guide team has been afflicted, only they were nonetheless able to log in eventually. Likewise we've been able to admission Google Meet calls without issue.

Even so the problem is widespread enough that people are complaining virtually information technology on sites like Twitter — though not as much as they did when Snapchat and Facebook services died.

But since Google is now aware of the situation, and considering the outage is only affecting a portion of users, it hopefully won't be very long until everything is upward and running once again. Co-ordinate to Google, an update is expected by 11 a.m. U.M. time, or 6 a.one thousand. Eastern.

We'll update this story if we hear anything else. In the concurrently anyone locked out of their work accounts tin can savor something more interesting. Like all the new Disney Plus 24-hour interval content that's hit the streaming service.

Tom is the Tom'due south Guide's Automotive Editor, which means he can usually exist found genu deep in stats the latest and best electric cars, or checking out some sort of driving gadget. Information technology's long way from his days as editor of Gizmodo UK, when pretty much everything was on the table. He'southward ordinarily found trying to squeeze another behemothic Lego fix onto the shelf, draining very large cups of coffee, or complaining that Ikea won't let him buy the stuff he really needs online.