Gemini was down for some users — live updates on outage

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.

'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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

No drop from Google

Hey there, Scott here, stepping in for Dave to give him a break.

I've checked a few different status pages for Google and everything is green across the board. Perhaps the outage didn't get big enough for the system to acknowledge.

It helps that on Down Detector reports have nearly halved sitting around 2,000 as of this post.

Outage appears over

With Google's system never showing any problems, it appears the outage is over.

On Down Detector, reports are sitting at 355, down from the peak of just over 4,000 from an hour previous.

In my personal tests on Gemini has been working quickly.

I'll keep an eye on things for a few more minutes but for now, it appears that whatever problems Gemini was having are over.