If you're having trouble accessing Google Assistant, Google Search, Gmail, Google Drive or other Google apps, you're not alone. According to DownDetector.com, all of these aforementioned apps are not working. We noticed the problem when trying to set a reminder using Google Assistant and discovered the problem. On DownDetector, the number of complaints made by Google Search users rose from 7 to over 1300 in minutes.
The problems appear to be worse in the northeast U.S., parts of Texas and in Southern California. Overseas, parts of the U.K., Germany, and Austria are affected. And the problem isn't limited to Google's mobile apps as the Google's desktop apps also appear to be out of order.
UPDATE: Google has issued the following statement, "We are experiencing high levels of network congestion in the eastern USA, affecting multiple services in Google Cloud, G Suite and YouTube. Users may see slow performance or intermittent errors. We believe we have identified the root cause of the congestion and expect to return to normal service shortly."
We'd suggest that you calmly find some videos on YouTube to stream while waiting for Google to fix whatever ails it. However, YouTube is a Google app and the number of complaints related to the app soared from 16 to over 20,000 in minutes. 42% of those who complained said that they can't watch videos, 29% can't open the YouTube website and 28% are not able to log in.
Officially, the outage started at 2:57pm EDT. We will keep our eyes open and as soon as service returns to normal, we will update this story. Check in often.
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