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Downdetector reported a major ChatGPT outage with user-reported issues climbing from about 5,000 at 7:53 a.m. PT to over 74,000 within hours. OpenAI’s status page initially showed no issues but later indicated it was investigating outages affecting ChatGPT and Codex, signaling a widespread disruption for users.
Thousands reported Outlook outages on Aug. 31 as Microsoft noted degraded Exchange Online service; Downdetector tracked peak reports around noon, with recovery actions underway and varying restoration times. Concurrent ChatGPT outages also occurred but were resolved by about 4 p.m., while Microsoft continued remediation with service health updates.
OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work experienced about three hours of elevated errors and latency as the company works on a mitigation, while Microsoft reported degraded Exchange Online functionality; outages affected thousands of users (about 1,100 for OpenAI and around 4,600 for Outlook on Downdetector), and both companies are investigating and addressing the issues.
Microsoft Outlook appears to have suffered a widespread outage, with Downdetector reporting thousands of affected users—over 3,000 early on and more than 13,000 later—mostly related to receiving messages. Microsoft’s status checker meanwhile said all products were operational, indicating a disruption without an official outage confirmation.
Letterboxd, the film-review social network, went down Sunday morning, locking users out of both the mobile app and the website as sign-ins fail. DownDetector logged more than 1,000 reports, and Letterboxd posted a brief Instagram update saying the team is working to restore access. The outage affects a platform with roughly 30 million users, and reports from Variety indicate Letterboxd has been in early talks with potential buyers, including Netflix, Paramount, Sony Pictures, and others.
Verizon customers across the United States faced a large-scale mobile-service outage that began around 3:30 p.m. ET, with Downdetector recording more than 13,000 complaints at its peak and major metro areas like New York, Los Angeles and Boston most affected. Verizon said it’s making progress on the issue and urged impacted users to restart their devices; the carrier did not provide a reason for the outage, which also disrupted calls on other carriers such as AT&T and T-Mobile as reported by Downdetector and CNBC.
T-Mobile faced a widespread outage with reports skyrocketing on Downdetector from about 9,000 at 1:23 p.m. PT to over 220,000 by 2:27 p.m., mainly affecting mobile service and 5G home internet; T-Mobile had not issued a public comment as the company investigated the outage.
Microsoft's Xbox network is experiencing a major global outage that is preventing sign-ins, disrupting game launches, and affecting access across four services (Account & Profile, Games & Gaming, Store & Subscriptions, Apps & Mobile); engineers are investigating and posting updates on the Xbox status page, with Downdetector data showing most complaints center on launching games.
Xbox services experienced a widespread outage on July 27, affecting thousands of players (Downdetector reports peaked above 3,000). There was no official Xbox statement at the time, and many users encountered the 0x87e107df error. While guidance suggests offline network mode and a console restart, such user-side fixes are unlikely to resolve issues during a server outage that disrupts Xbox Live license verification.
On June 22, 2026, Xfinity outages surged to over 70,000 reports on Downdetector, most users reporting TV connection problems; by mid-afternoon the number of reports began to fall as service appeared to recover, with no public statement from Xfinity.
Gemini users report outages and connectivity problems; issues began after 6:00 AM ET and aren’t affecting everyone—some can still access Gemini while others cannot. Google has acknowledged the errors on its support dashboard and is investigating the root cause with no fixes yet. Some Android Authority staff could access the chatbot, while others faced issues with back-to-back queries or specific AI models; Google Workspace and AI Studio dashboards currently show no issues.
Apple Music experienced a global outage affecting users in numerous countries, with Apple’s System Status pages designating it as an outage and noting intermittent issues; Downdetector logged rising reports, and an update later confirmed the issue was resolved.
Thousands of Discord users reported outages on Friday afternoon, with about 38,000 reports by 4 p.m. ET and initial problems surfacing around 2:45 p.m., concentrated in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle; Discord did not immediately respond for comment.
Microsoft Outlook users began experiencing sign-in failures and intermittent errors ('too many requests') on Monday. Microsoft rolled back a recent backend configuration change, but the rollback did not resolve the outage, and the company is continuing to investigate and monitor the issue, with updates on its status page and X account; Copilot issues are separate and not related to the Outlook outage.
Microsoft's Outlook is experiencing a service degradation with intermittent sign-in issues and access problems. Downdetector shows rising outage reports while Microsoft’s status page says a recently introduced change was reverted and the team is investigating the underlying cause, with no estimated repair time provided.