August 18, 2026 · started 19:37 UTC

Google Workspace outage.

Google Workspace (Gmail, Drive) reported degraded for 3h 24m, then recovered. The provider titled it: “**Summary:** Investigating access issues with Classroom’s new web homepage. **Description:** We are investigating increasing reports of access issues with Classroom’s new web homepage beginning on Thursday, 2026-08-13. Our engineering team is currently working on a potential fix while continuing to investigate the full root cause. We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-08-18 13:00 PDT with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption. **Symptoms:** Admins and some Teachers may experience permission errors when accessing Classroom’s new web homepage. **Workaround:** Users should still be able to navigate to other views from the left hand pane of the interface.”.

3h 24mduration

Degradedworst reported level

19:37 UTCAugust 18, 2026

Timeline

19:37 UTC — operational → degraded **Summary:** Investigating access issues with Classroom’s new web homepage. **Description:** We are investigating increasing reports of access issues with Classroom’s new web homepage beginning on Thursday, 2026-08-13. Our engineering team is currently working on a potential fix while continuing to investigate the full root cause. We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-08-18 13:00 PDT with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption. **Symptoms:** Admins and some Teachers may experience permission errors when accessing Classroom’s new web homepage. **Workaround:** Users should still be able to navigate to other views from the left hand pane of the interface.
23:01 UTC — back to operational All services operating normally

As published on Google Workspace's official status page, observed by our poller. Times are UTC. See current Google Workspace status, its RSS feed, or all recorded outages.