Gmail is down across the world — but not for everyone

Gmail is downwards across the world — merely not for everyone

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

Issues seem to be affecting the ability to log into accounts beyond the U.S., U.K. and Europe. What's more it's not restricted to Gmail, with Google'southward ain status folio noting bug with the Google Chat, Run across, Calendar, and Groups.

According to Down Detector issues began at around 3 a.chiliad. ET/eight a.g. GMT, and slowly grew in the run up to 5 a.m. Google has confirmed that at that place is an issue, with its general status page challenge that: "We are currently investigating an issue 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 ii factor login prompts are running more than slowly, and resulted in an fault in some cases, further frustrating the login problems.

The issues haven't affected everyone, though. Only one member of the Tom's Guide team has been afflicted, but they were nevertheless able to log in eventually. Likewise we've been able to admission Google Meet calls without result.

Still the problem is widespread enough that people are lament most it 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 because the outage is only affecting a portion of users, it hopefully won't exist very long until everything is up and running again. According to Google, an update is expected past 11 a.m. U.1000. time, or 6 a.m. Eastern.

We'll update this story if we hear anything else. In the meantime anyone locked out of their piece of work accounts can enjoy something more interesting. Like all the new Disney Plus Day content that's hit the streaming service.

Tom is the Tom's Guide'south Automotive Editor, which means he can usually be found knee 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 every bit editor of Gizmodo UK, when pretty much everything was on the table. He's usually found trying to clasp some other giant Lego set onto the shelf, draining very large cups of coffee, or complaining that Ikea won't let him buy the stuff he really needs online.