After Major Outage, Gmail Slowly Comes Back

Gmail service went down worldwide Friday afternoon, frustrating millions of users. The outage also affected other Google services such as Hangouts and Google+.

Google's apps dashboard initially showed all Google services in the green, but it was updated at around 2:20 p.m. ET to show a service disruption for Gmail. Gmail stopped working for both web and mobile apps as well as third-party clients such as Apple Mail, suggesting that the entire back-end (IMAP) service was affected.

Judging from the response on Twitter, the outage appeared to be worldwide and affected other Google services as well. Hangouts and Google+ both stopped working; some Google Drive users were reporting connection issues, too. The Google homepage remained unaffected, though, as were Google's main search products. Google Calendar appeared unaffected as well. Read more...