Gmail down – outage hitting thousands of users worldwide

An interesting sidenote – in the UK at least, the mystery issue also appears to be affecting several other Google platforms.

DownDetector UK is showing spikes in reports of issues with Google Drive, Google Nest, and Google's homepage itself.

Users are continuing to report Gmail outages on DownDetector in both the UK and US, with reports topping the 10,000 mark in the latter.

There's been no official confirmation or response from Google just yet – but we're staying glued to its social media pages for any update…

The dreaded red X on the Google Workspace Status Dashboard (opens in new tab) confirms that something is indeed up with Gmail.

That's quite a spike in users reporting Gmail problems…

The Gmail outage occured around 1pm GMT / 8am ET – so when many users in the US might have been logging on for work.

Outage tracker site DownDetector reported a huge spike in Gmail reports from users in the UK and US.