Gemini is down for some users — live updates on outage

On October 8, 2026, at 12:20 PM, users began reporting issues with Google's popular Gemini AI tool on Downdetector, an outage-reporting service. While not the highest number of reports, there were approximately 1,700 reported problems, indicating a possible widespread issue. According to the Gemini status page, all systems are operational, but as the number of reports increases, it appears less likely that the situation is resolved.

The reports on Downdetector started to rise quickly, going from under 2,000 reports to over 5,000 within a few minutes. This suggested that many users were experiencing problems with Gemini and were reporting them on Downdetector. Users began to share what was happening to them in the comments section, with one common error code being 1155, which simply indicated that something went wrong.

Around 12:45 PM, the Downdetector update showed a slower increase in reports, rather than the dramatic rise observed earlier. Despite this slower rate of increase, the number of reports remained high. At around 12:47 PM, some users reported encountering error code 13, which is a server-side handshake failure, browser conflict, or account-level desync that blocks text inputs or uploads. Essentially, this means that users cannot perform actions within Gemini and must wait for the issue to be resolved.

Though Downdetector reports can fluctuate as the user count stabilizes, a slight downturn was observed by 12:58 PM. Although the 4,811 reported problems are still a significant number, any improvement is noteworthy, especially since Google has not acknowledged the outage on its status page. At the time of writing, the author claimed that Gemini was functioning for them, and they even asked Gemini if it was experiencing an outage, to which it responded that everything was working.