Gmail Down: Google Still Working on Fix for Gmail, Chat, Drive, Keep, Meet, Sites and More [UPDATED]

This is the second time in the space of a few weeks that Gmail has suffered an outage. In July, many users were unable to log into Gmail for a short while — an issue subsequently fixed. However, Google did not offer any disclosure on why might the outage have happened. At this time, Gmail and Google Drive outage is impacting users in India as well as across Europe, Asia and the USA. Popular services facing down time has become a seemingly frequent affair, with bulk loads of memes being the centrepiece of attention every time a service goes down. At the centre of this is Facebook’s tools, which have faced frequent outages in the recent past. WhatsApp’s servers recently faced an outage that barred users from sending messages or accessing files on WhatsApp, leading to people flocking to Twitter to share reactions on the matter.

However, with the Gmail and Drive outage occurring in the middle of a weekday in India, it may be presumed that the downtime may have affected work for many – especially since we have largely been working from home. Google’s G Suite is one of the most popular productivity suites, and is used by a wide range of organisations across India and the world. At the time of writing, News18 can confirm that the services have started sporadically working in India, with Gmail’s incoming and outgoing email services, as well as full Google Drive functionality, being operational as of now for some in our team. It is possible that the issues did not affect all users of Gmail and Google Drive, or may be in process of being restored at the moment.

Update 1: Google has shared another update which says the issue is still not resolved and investigations continue. “We are continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by 8/20/20, 1:39 PM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem,” they say. Earlier, in the first update at 10:59am this morning, Google said, “We’re investigating reports of an issue with Gmail. We will provide more information shortly.” The issues persist and as of 11:37am when Google last shared an update, they said, “We are continuing to investigate this issue. We will provide an update by 8/20/20, 1:30 PM detailing when we expect to resolve the problem.” This may just be a good time to ignore your emails and go grab a coffee instead.