Google hit with huge outage as Gmail, Drive & Workspace ‘down’

GOOGLE is facing outages as users report delays and errors across a number of services.

The service reported that the incident began at 3.10pm and is affecting Gmail, Google Drive, Google Meet and Google Workspace.

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According to DownDetector, reports of issues reached a peak at around 4.30pm today.

Hundreds of users have logged issues with the service.

This is affecting platforms like Google Docs, Google Chat and Google Analytics.

A report from Google says: “Various Workspace services are experiencing elevated latency and error rates.”

Users flocked to X to complain about the ongoing issues.

One said: “Google would go down on a Friday lol like this couldn’t wait til Monday?”

Another said: “Google drive is down? Well my work day is over then.”