Gemini is down for some users — live updates on outage
Users around the world can't get access to the popular AI tool
Working for me
I will say, Gemini is working for me at the moment. I even asked if it was experiencing an outage; it told me that everything is working.
What's this, a downturn?
While Downdetector reports can fluctuate as the number of users stabilizes, it's still promising to see a slight downturn.
Sure, 4,811 is still a big number, but any improvement is worth calling out, especially since Google still hasn't acknowledged the outage on its status page.
Error code 13
We've seen some users report getting "error code 13" when trying to use Gemini.
According to Google Help, this is "a server-side handshake failure, browser conflict, or account-level desync that blocks text inputs or uploads."
Essentially, it means that if you're getting this error and your Gemini messages are bumped back, there's nothing you can do on your end besides wait it out.
A slight slowdown?
The most recent Downdetector update is the first that hasn't been a dramatic upward angle. It's still rising, don't get me wrong, but it's a slower increase than the previous ones.
Users are weighing in
As is standard when there's a big outage, users start jumping to the comments section to report exactly what's happening to them.
In this case, we're seeing error 1155 popping up, which simply says "Something went wrong."
Rising fast
Reports are rising quickly. When we first launched this live report on the Gemini outage, fewer than 2,000 people were reporting issues.
Just a few minutes later, and it's over 5,000. Clearly, a lot more users are noticing something wrong with their Gemini experience and are jumping to Downdetector to report the problem.
'All systems operational'
According to the Gemini status page everything is "All systems operational," though as the number of reports continues to rize, that seems less and less likely.
The reports are starting to come in
While not the biggest amount of reports, we're currently seeing around 1,700 reports on Downdetector, which is an indication that something is wrong with the popular AI tool.
