Google applications, unable to access services temporarily (14/12/2020)

Lahiru Ariyasinghe
1 min readDec 14, 2020

Google applications including email, YouTube, Gmail and Google Docs are suffering a service outage, with users not allow to access some of these application services.

The problem started shortly at noon in UK time(14/12/2020), with Google applications returning server errors when used.

Users around the world suffering these problems with Docs, Gmail, Anrodid Play store, Google Drive, the Maps, and few more.

You can see the Google’s search engine, however, possibly unaffected by the problems affecting its other applications.

Other service providers such as many businessess and individual services rely on Google services for basic work apps such as calendar and emails.

Users of Google Docs could continue to work if they had synced documents offline, but were unable to use any online features.

"We're aware of a problem with Gmail affecting a majority of users. The affected users are unable to access Gmail," a statement said, with the word "Gmail" replaced by other services.

The cause of the outage is unclear.

However, users can still access to the google crome "incognito mode", which does not store a log of the users' browsing activity.

Hopefully the issue will remain until fixed it as soon as possible.

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