Tag Archives: Gmail

Google says that a “significant subset” of Gmail users are running into errors with the service right now. While users can access their inboxes, they may encounter “error messages, high latency, and/or other unexpected behavior,” the company wrote in a message on its service status page. The errors come just a day after many Google properties, including Gmail, YouTube, and Google Docs, were hit with a widespread outage. Downdetector, which monitors reports of website issues,… Source link

CHICAGO (NewsNation Now) — Google has restored outages with its Gmail and Google Drive services for the “vast majority of users” Monday morning, and YouTube says it’s “back up and running.” Thousands of users around the world reported issues with services from Alphabet Inc, including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive, just before 7 a.m. EST, according to DownDetector. The site where users can report outages tracked more than 57,000 claims of issues with Google… Source link

The U.S. Treasury Department computers were hacked into over the weekend. Then, on Monday, Google services were down, which impacted those doing distance learning. The Treasury hack that took place Sunday looks like it stemmed from malware being put on a security system, possibly through a phishing email. Not only was the treasury department impacted, but all five military branches and thousands of federal, state and local… Source link

The outage also made Google Classroom temporarily unavailable, preventing many students learning remotely from accessing their classes. A little after 8 am ET, most of Google’s services came back online. The company’s workspace status dashboard had been red across the board, with every single Google service indicating an outage. Later Monday morning, they turned green, indicating that they’re operating normally. “We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued… Source link

A host of Alphabet services were knocked offline Monday in a worldwide outage spanning the tech giant’s major platforms — including YouTube, Google Drive and Gmail — suspending work and school accounts for tens of millions of users. Google blamed an “internal storage quota issue” for the outage that its workplace status dashboard showed began at 6:55 a.m. Eastern time for all of its listed services: Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Slides,… Source link

NEW YORK (AP) — Google users in the U.S., Europe, India and other parts of the world were briefly unable to access their Gmail accounts, watch YouTube videos or get to their online documents during an outage Monday. Tens of thousands of complaints popped up around 7 a.m. Eastern along the East Coast of the U.S. The vast majority of those people, about 90%, could not log in, according to the site Downdetector. The inability to sign in prevented users accessing other platforms through Google,… Source link

Multiple Google services and websites including YouTube, Gmail, Google Assistant, and Google Docs have been hit with a widespread outage. DownDetector indicates that the outage, which appears to be affecting Google’s business and personal services, started at around 6:40AM ET in the case of Gmail. Reports are mounting on Twitter as users can’t access its basic services, with Gmail and the hashtag “#YouTubeDOWN” starting to trend. As of this writing, the status page for Google’s… Source link

Google has updated its flagship iPhone apps with support for home screen widgets, a new feature of iOS 14. The company announced today it’s rolling out new widgets for Gmail, Google Drive, Google Fit and soon, Google Calendar and Google Chrome, in order to put useful information on the home screen or to provide quick access to common tasks. The company had already launched a widget for its Google Search app back in September.  The new widgets, for the most part, seem to be handy… Source link

Google’s Gmail application has been updated for iOS 14 with a new widget — but it’s probably not the kind of Gmail widget you may have been hoping for. Right now, there’s just a single iOS 14 Gmail widget that just does one thing: offer quick links to your inbox, the compose menu, or search. There’s no real preview of your inbox content, no ability to triage mail through archiving or deleting without opening the app, or any way to read an incoming message. The most interactive… Source link

Google is replacing its iconic Gmail envelope logo with a design that’s a lot more in keeping with other Google products. The new Gmail logo is now an M made out of Google’s core blue, red, yellow, and green brand colors. It more closely matches similar logos for Google itself, Google Maps, Google Photos, Chrome, and many more Google products. The envelope is no more. Fast Company reports that Google considered dropping the M altogether or fully removing the Gmail red color, but… Source link