At around noon on Thursday, there was a worldwide outage reported with Gmail, the email service by Google. 82 percent of issues reported to DownDetector cited problems sending emails, while 15 percent cited server connection issues and a small three percent linked problems to the website.

Gmail is the most popular email provider globally - it is used in over 170 countries worldwide. Google's Workspace dashboard shows service disruptions for ChromeOS, Gmail, and Google Drive. Their company website mentioned that their engineering team continues to investigate the issue and at present there is no workaround. Read more about this story on our LinkedIn page