Google down: Gmail, Drive, and Gemini face outage, Cloud-linked apps also affected

A partial outage has disrupted multiple Google services worldwide, including Gmail, Drive, Gemini, and other Workspace tools. The disruption, first reported around 11:15am ET on July 18, appears to be linked to issues in Google Cloud, which powers several of these platforms.

According to Downdetector, thousands of users began experiencing issues at the same time. Around 44% of them reported endless loading screens, 30% were unable to log into Gmail, while 26% couldn’t even run a simple Google search.