Gmail outage is over after hours-long service disruption
The widespread outage hit Asia during work hours, as well as the US and Europe.
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A map shows the countries affected by the Gmail outage as of 1:45 a.m. PT Thursday.
Gmail appears to be working again Thursday after people worldwide reported disruptions to a number of Google services over about seven hours.
A widespread outage of the popular Google services began shortly after 9 p.m. PT Wednesday. People reported issues in the US, Europe and parts of Asia including India, Japan, Singapore and Australia, according to outage monitoring site DownDetector. Gmail users said they had trouble attaching files and were unable to send and receive emails. Some had problems logging in.
Google's app status page indicated that Google Meet, Google Docs, Google Keep and Google Voice also experienced service disruptions.
Google's app status page shows services that were affected by a widespread outage.
As of 4:10 a.m. PT Thursday, Google said on its status dashboard that the problem with Gmail was resolved.
"System reliability is a top priority at Google. We are making continuous improvements to make our systems better," reads the latest update. The company didn't say what caused the outage.
Twitter surged with complaints about the service disruption.
Gmail reminding us about 2020 pic.twitter.com/OwltyAuf2Q
— Raghvendra Singh (@raghvendra_950) August 20, 2020
Anyone else’s #gmail having an absolute freak out? 🤯 Tips to fix it? Is on the app and desktop for me 🙈
— Meggie Palmer (@MeggiePalmer) August 20, 2020
No it's not your internet that is down....#gmail #email #gmaildown #gmailindia #foresightadvertising #pune. pic.twitter.com/jXvaGgtSV6
— Foresight Advt (@foresight_advt) August 20, 2020
Gmail and Google Drive suffered a global outage in March 2019 that also affected people's ability to send emails.