Google Meet is down: Outage updates as Google responds

Meeting's cancelled?
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UPDATE: Sep. 8, 2025, 3:03 p.m. EDT Google reported that issues with Meet have been "resolved for all affected users," according to an update posted to its app status dashboard. "From preliminary analysis, the root cause of the issue is a recent change in content edge cache," the update read. "Our engineers have resolved the issue by rolling back the change."

Google Meet appeared to suffer an outage on Monday as users reported issues with the tech giant's videoconferencing tool.

User-reported issues with Google Meet began to spike sharply on Down Detector shortly after 1 p.m. ET. It's worth noting that these problems are reported by users and do not always indicate an issue for all users. (Disclosure: Both Down Detector and Mashable are owned by Ziff Davis.)

Google acknowledged Meet was having issues in an update to its app status dashboard. "Some Google Meet customers are experiencing issues with loading the meet UI," the update read, while noting that could mean slow load times or the inability to join meetings.


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"Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue," the update read.

Lots of people posted online about problems with Google Meet, some celebrating the sudden cancellation of meetings.

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Tim Marcin
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Tim Marcin is an Associate Editor on the culture team at Mashable, where he mostly digs into the weird parts of the internet. You'll also see some coverage of memes, tech, sports, trends, and the occasional hot take. You can find him on Bluesky (sometimes), Instagram (infrequently), or eating Buffalo wings (as often as possible).

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