PSA: Gmail is down for some users, Google is investigating
Gmail is experiencing downtime this afternoon as some users are having issues with receiving messages and accessing their account. Google confirmed the issue on its apps status page and said it was investigating reports as of 1:56PM EST.
The company provided a later update at 2:46PM EST today noting that it’s continuing to investigate and confirming it’s discovered that “some messages sent to consumer Gmail accounts are being rejected due to authentication enforcement.”
Google plans to provide another update by 3:46PM EST with more details on when it expects to resolve the issues.
We’ll keep you posted here with further updates and let us know in the comments below if you’re still having problems with your account.