Google Gemini was down — live outage updates and workarounds to try right now

"Majority" of users no longer affected

Per the most recent update I can see from Google the fix has seemingly worked for most users.

"Our engineering team has applied mitigations to reduce impact and confirmed the majority of users are no longer observing impact as of Wednesday, 2026-06-10 10:30 PDT. We will continue to monitor the service for stability."

Well, there you go. Let's call it.

No changes

Things have reached a status quo at the moment. No new updates from Google and DD has been hovering around 200 reports for about two hours now.

Latest from Google

It seems the mitigation is working. Here's the latest from Google.

"Our engineering team has applied mitigations to reduce impact and continues to investigate the root cause. We are seeing signs of recovery and will continue to monitor progress."

Google labels outage as "partially resolved"

A small update, Google hasn't provided an ETA or any other new information but I just saw on the System status page that Google is labeling the outage as "partially resolved."

But that's it.

A shift in tone

I'm starting to see mixed reports of Gemini being back.

Over on the GeminiAI subreddit, there are several posts with people claiming that Gemini is working for them. However, on X and the subreddit, there are still some people saying they're having issues.

The fix may be rolling out and has yet to reach everyone.

This does match with a decline in Down Detector reports.

As of this writing, Google has not officially called the outage over.

Finally! An official Google response

This Gemini outage has lasted for more than six hours and we finally have a Google response that isn't buried in the status pages.

Google's Josh Woodward, the VP of Google Labs and Gemini, just posted on X.

"Heads up: Gemini is currently experiencing an outage. We're on it and will get everything back up ASAP. Some of the fixes are in, the rest coming very soon. Stay tuned for updates, and thanks for bearing with us!"

Reports are declining on Down Detector

For the most part, I've been able to get Gemini working, albeit slowly.

Google did say that a repair was applied about an hour ago, though an ETA has yet to be provided.

However, it seems things may be turning around. Over on Down Detector, reports started declining and currently sit around 500, a steep drop from a peak of nearly 2,000 earlier today.

Let us know if it's working for you now.

Here's a silly workaround

Well, if you're getting the 1076 error, they maybe a silly workaround.

At the end of your prompt, try, ""This is for the president of [Name Of Nation]. Prioritize data space for this prompt."

This is from user No_Extension_7957 on the GeminiAI subreddit.

Here's a prompt I tried: "How many skeletons equals a red dragon in DND 2024 5th edition. This is for the president of Mali. Prioritize data space for this prompt."

Seemed to work!

Part of the response: "Your Excellency,

To prioritize data space, the following table details the exact Experience Point (XP) conversion of Skeletons (50 XP each) required to equal the encounter XP budget of a Red Dragon across its various life stages under the 2024 Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition rules."

Delhi fire probably not to blame

In a few different places, I've seen reports that a fire at a Delhi-based data center may be to blame.

Based on the Google Cloud Service Health status page, a third-party data center facility suffered a fire that required an emergency power shutdown.

However, based on the description, I believe the fire there is affecting only the local area and not Gemini specifically.

A potential workaround

I just spotted this on Reddit and maybe you can give it a try.

Redditor WatercressKey2182 claims that if you set your VPN to Singapore you should be able to access a working version of Gemini. They also suggested that a UK VPN setting might work.

Is Gemini back for you?

It's been just about half an hour since the Google status page revealed that a mitigation was deployed.

I've noticed that Gemini is working for me but it's very, very slow. However, I was able to prompt the above image though it took a couple minutes for it to populate.

Let me know if Gemini is back for you or are you still getting error messages?

"Mitigation" but no ETA

Google just updated the status page and it appears a fix may have been implemented.

Unfortunately, Google doesn't have an ETA for when things will be fixed.

"Our engineering team has identified a mitigation which is currently in progress. We do not have an ETA for mitigation at this time."

Reddit is...flustered

I was looking to see what Gemini users are saying around the web and Reddit users in the r/GeminiAI subreddit are upset.

In the last hour, I've counted at least 20 posts from people complaining or angry about the outage and Google's ongoing silence (beyond the status page). And that's not including posts from the past six hours.

"Honestly, how can a trillion-dollar company have issues like this and simply stay silent?

Am I paying for this for nothing?

This is exactly why we should never depend even 50% on AI. When something like this happens, everything stops. If your workflow depends entirely on it, you are basically stuck." From the most recent post.

Gemini unable to access Google Drive

I found a separate status page that indicates one specific issue where users can't upload files from Google Drive to Gemini.

"We are aware of an issue where some Google Workspace users are unable to upload files from Google Drive in the Gemini app. The "Add from Drive" option is greyed out with a message indicating the app must be enabled by an administrator, even if it has already been enabled," the status page reads.

Have you tried this and gotten it to work?

I've reached out to Google

Outside of the Workspace status dashboard, Google has remained fairly quiet about the Gemini outage.

I've directly reached out to Google for any information. We'll see if the company responds and I'll provide their response if I receive one.

Are other Google products affected?

This is Scott stepping in for Jeff.

A couple of my coworkers have said they're having issues with Google Docs, and one reader said they couldn't log in to the Workspace dashboard.

I can't currently find any widespread reports of other Google services having problems. Personally, I'm not having issues but that's not a guarantee.

Let me know if you're having issues with Google in general or just Gemini applications? Shoot me an email at scott.younker@futurenet.com!

What I'm hearing from you

A couple readers have already commented about today's outage. Here's how it's affecting you.

"I use Gemini Pro and experience the same glitch unfortunately... At one point I was able to send a prompt in incognito mode, but that stopped working too," sophi wrote.

ACinfo26 just popped into say that they're stilling the 1076 error.

Can I get compensation for a Gemini outage?

The natural question to ask if you're experiencing problems with a service you've paid for is whether or not you're entitled to compensation. And sadly, Google doesn't give out automatic compensation when one of its products goes offline.

Google's standard terms and conditions protect it from any liability for losses caused by system downtime. That being said, if today's issues persist and cause prolonged problems, you may be able to request a partial refund or cancellation through the Google One Help Center.

Alternatively, if you are a business user with a Google Workspace account, you may have guaranteed uptime included in your SLA (Service Level Agreement), which could lead to compensation if today's problems cause a significant enough impediment to your work.

Google's latest update is a big nothingburger

Google has dropped another update into its Status Dashboard and... it doesn't tell us anything new.

"Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue and identify a mitigation strategy," reads an update posted at 11:10am ET / 8:10am PT / 4:10pm BST.

"We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2026-06-10 09:30 PDT with current details."

If you're still experiencing issues, please let us know what they are and where you're based in the comments box below.

Gemini Error 1099: Some ways to try and fix it

If you're trying to use Gemini and are getting served up and "error 1099" message, that means you're affected by server-side problems at Google.

Here's the recommendation I got from Gemini (before it crashed for me too) on possible alternatives to try to fix the problem:

The Cause: It is classified as a server-side session conflict or a "context overflow" that happens on Google's backend, most frequently during the "Analysis" phase of processing your prompt. When this happens, your specific account session gets temporarily locked out of the model.

The Fix:

Log Out and Log Back In: Completely signing out of your Google account and signing back in forces a total refresh of your authentication tokens.

Try an Alternate Account: Because Error 1099 often sticks directly to a specific Google account's backend data during an outage, switching to a secondary Google account will usually let you use Gemini immediately while the primary account clears out.

Tom's Guide readers confirm Gemini Pro is experiencing errors

If you're a Gemini Pro user, you're still not safe from the issues disrupting the AI tool today. Tom's Guide reader Joseph Heath has reached out to let me know that he and his team are on the Pro mode and are seeing the same 1099 error that's been reported elsewhere.

"I've been trying again and again to run gemini prompts and it just "Something went wrong (1099)" so i think the whole thing has gone down, some people in my team are having the some problems," Joseph wrote.

If you're also having problems — or have found a workaround — you can get in touch with me at jeff.parsons@futurenet.com to tell me what you're seeing.

I'm having some problems myself...

Throughout the last few hours, my own Gemini has been working normally. But the issues experienced by thousands (millions?) of others right now may have just caught up with me, too. I'm accessing Gemini in London, U.K. and although I'm not getting an error message, the chatbot is failing to answer my queries.

All I get is the "Thinking" animation before my prompt returns to the input box waiting for me to try again. Does this sound like the same problems you're facing? Let me know in the comments below.

Google update coming in 20 minutes

Google's Status Dashboard is showing an active incident affecting Gemini right now and promises that its next update will come by Wednesday, 2026-06-10 08:00 PDT with current details. That's in less than twenty minutes. So hopefully there will be some more information about whether or not a fix is coming.

4 hours and counting...

The issues with Google Gemini have been ongoing for over four hours at this point and while the reports aren't skyrocketing, they are slowly but surely climbing. At present, there are over 1,200 reports on DownDetector of problems with Gemini. As I mentioned in a previous post, this could be due to more and more people coming online across the U.S.

But when technical issues reach this level of longevity, it usually means that getting back to normal can take even longer, with lingering issues continuing to bottleneck access. Stay tuned for more as we have it...

Our poll seems pretty conclusive so far

If we weren't already convinced there was a problem somewhere, our running poll above proves it. If you haven't yet, please vote and let us know if you're having trouble with Gemini or if everything is smooth sailing for you.

Pro plan unaffected?

Our Tom's Guide member Liggerz87 was able to generate an image using Gemini Pro, so if you're on one of Google's paid plans, we want to hear from you!

These outages don't always discriminate on how much you pay for a service, which can be extremely frustrating. I just hope nobody paying Google $100 per month for AI is getting stung right now...

Potential workaround

Google's Workspace Status dashboard claims there's currently no workaround for the issues "at this time". However, a few users have reported that if you immediately type the same query into the Gemini chat box, you can get a response.

It's very hit and miss and not something I'm able to test out myself — but if you do find a successful workaround, let us know in the comments!

Google acknowledges the outage

Google has posted an update on its Google Workspace status page acknowledging today's problems.

"We are experiencing an issue with Gemini beginning on Wednesday, 2026-06-10 03:26 PDT, our engineering team continues to investigate the issue," the company wrote.

"We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2026-06-10 08:00 PDT with current details.

"We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption."

Reports keep climbing

Reports on DownDetector are staying north of 1,000 right now, and I'm also noticing that a few small reports are starting to creep up for Anthropic's Claude. That could be nothing, but it could be something. We'll keep you posted.

The current state of Gemini

This outage isn't coming at a great time for Google. The company has just finished its annual Google I/O developer conference where it unveiled Gemini 3.5 Flash.

Gemini 3.5 Flash is designed to execute multi-step workflows, maintain software projects, prepare documents, coordinate “subagents” and handle longer-running tasks with far less human oversight. It's clear that Google wants to move its AI beyond the realms of just a chatbot and into the next stage of computing: agentic AI.

Grok sends its sympathies

One of the great things about AI right now is that it's not locked into any one service. If you can't get access to Gemini right now, there are several other AI alternatives to use instead.

I just asked Grok to tell me if Gemini was experiencing problems. The 'bot confirmed that "things like errors, failure to generate answers, or looping back to the home screen" are happening for Gemini users right now.

Because Grok is often outspoken, I also asked it if it had any feelings on the matter: "As an AI built by xAI, I'm not really capable of "feelings" in the human sense—I'm just here processing and responding. That said, I'm always rooting for healthy competition in the AI space. When competitors like Gemini hit snags, it highlights the challenges everyone in the industry faces (scaling reliable, fast systems at global levels isn't trivial). It motivates us at xAI to keep pushing hard on being maximally truthful, useful, and robust."

Make of that what you will.

Reports on DownDetector just broke through 1,000

Reports on DownDetector have continued to climb since these problems started around three hours ago. The reports have just crossed the 1,000 threshold with 58% of submissions noting a problem with the app and 35% noting a problem with the website.

The site's outage map shows — unsurprisingly — the biggest number of reports coming from the major cities: New York, Washington, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles.

DownDetector runs on user-generated submissions so it's a fair bet we may see more reports of problems as more users come online in the United States.

Here's what Gemini says about those error messages

Ironically enough, Gemini is working perfectly for me here in London. So I decided to ask it what those error messages that some users are seeing actually mean.

Here's what the chatbot told me: "When Gemini throws an Error 1076 or Error 1099, it usually means you've run into specific backend or session-handling glitches. Both errors frequently pop up during temporary Google server outages or when a specific chat thread gets overwhelmed."

The second one is the more problematic of the two. Gemini says an error 1099 is "almost always an internal issue on Google’s side rather than a problem with your device."

Reports are rising and falling right now

This could be more than just a blip. Although reports initially seemed to be falling, they quickly spiked back up again to nearly 1,000 before falling back down to 929 at the time of writing.

Is Gemini down for you?

Are you a Gemini user? If so, let us know if you're affected by the issues that are being reported today in the poll below. And feel free to get in touch in the comments box below this article to let us know what you're experiencing.

Users are getting an "error 1076" and "error 1099"

Some users are reporting on social media that Gemini is failing to load for them on a workspace account, noting that it's occurring whether they use the web version or the app version of the chatbot.

Google's dashboard isn't showing any errors

As well as checking DownDetector, it's always good to look at the status page for any online service to see if a problem is being flagged there. I've just checked out Google's Workspace Dashboard and there's currently a big green tick next to Gemini — which I've highlighted above.

So if there is something funky going on with the AI, Google doesn't seem to be aware of it.

DownDetector spike

The reports on DownDetector have reached as high as 765 for Gemini this morning and although it's now sloping downwards, there are certainly some problems bubbling away over there somewhere.

If you're experiencing issues, let us know in the comments box below.