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Outlook.com is a web-based suite of webmail, contacts, tasks, and calendaring services from Microsoft. One of the world's first webmail services, it was founded in 1996 as Hotmail.

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Outlook.com reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

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Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Outlook.com users through our website.

  • 49% Sign in (49%)
  • 26% Errors (26%)
  • 25% Website Down (25%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:

CityProblem TypeReport Time
Liverpool Sign in 25 minutes ago
Trowbridge Sign in 1 hour ago
Preston Website Down 3 hours ago
San Marcos Errors 9 hours ago
Phoenix Sign in 9 hours ago
Quito Errors 10 hours ago
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Outlook.com Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • mel76151448
    mel (@mel76151448) reported

    @Outlook how am I supposed to get back in my email account, when I can’t sign in. Tried all the links but no success. Run a business on this account. I need to speak to a human!!!

  • wsmcd
    Sam McDonald (@wsmcd) reported

    @Outlook @Microsoft Luckily I have a passkey and was able to sign out of all my accounts elsewhere. In fact I removed the password as a sign in option for my account now. Strongly recommend everyone do this!

  • MaryNT16
    Mary N-T (@MaryNT16) reported

    @Outlook A quick scroll of your account shows others with the same problem. What is happening over there? The email in question is my main email that I've had for nearly 30 years.

  • sidhantranjan
    Sidhant Ranjan Shrivastava (@sidhantranjan) reported

    @MicrosoftHelps @Microsoft @Outlook I can’t log in to my personal Hotmail account. I receive the verification code on my alternate email, but after entering it, I get “Please try again later” for several days. Please help fix this issue.

  • deliciaMP4
    delicia (@deliciaMP4) reported

    @Outlook a move up/move down feature isn’t that hard surely

  • jcshuadixcn
    Joshua Dixon (@jcshuadixcn) reported

    @Outlook @MicrosoftHelps I’m locked out of my Outlook due to broken Authenticator after switching phones. Tried all options. Need human support.

  • VolatileAmine
    FallingDebris (@VolatileAmine) reported

    @Outlook you’d think your server could block phishing emails. FFS, the floodgate is open.

  • TuckerGoodrich
    Tucker Goodrich (@TuckerGoodrich) reported

    Gmail search doesn't work. Outlook is far better and if it's not working, you Exchange administrator is doing a bad job. —Current unhappy @Gmail user and former Exchange administrator and intensive @Outlook user.

  • ibn_wittig
    Wittig Lyon (@ibn_wittig) reported

    @hameedkanz @Outlook @Live What's the error message? Is it csv or?

  • SarahEmpson2
    sarah (@SarahEmpson2) reported

    @Outlook Why am I having problems receiving and sending emails.. today so are a few other people I know

  • EliteErin21
    Erin 🏳️‍⚧️ (@EliteErin21) reported

    @ShishirShelke1 @Microsoft @Outlook fix your product please

  • BlueDiamond305
    Blue Diamond (@BlueDiamond305) reported

    @Outlook dear ********, your new version is ******* terrible 😣 new doesn’t always mean better *******. Classic was perfectly fine the way it was!

  • srijansen39
    Roni (@srijansen39) reported

    @Outlook @MicrosoftHelps Hi Microsoft/Outlook team, I recently created a Microsoft account and got an @outlook.com email by default. But every email I send to Gmail addresses lands in the recipient's Spam folder, so they never see it. This is causing major inconvenience— Fix this

  • JanDamaschke
    Jan-Henrik Damaschke 🦋 (@JanDamaschke) reported

    @gdlinux @Outlook I'm always for open source, but running your own email server was traditionally a hurdle. Any suggestions?

  • browneye_winker
    Richard Gozinya (@browneye_winker) reported

    @Outlook Are there issues with Outlook on iOS 26.4? I’ve been getting delayed notifications for a couple weeks. The email will show in my inbox, but I’ll get the iOS notification a couple minutes after.

  • xJoeyxKnucklesx
    JC Castañeda (@xJoeyxKnucklesx) reported

    @sh69147 @Outlook I got same problem VaultEdgeX helped me

  • TheDwightYoung
    Dwight Young (@TheDwightYoung) reported

    @Microsoft @Office @Outlook Why does Outlook for Mac always have non-stop issues? Why is my desktop app unable to Sync or connect for hours, sometimes even the entire day, multiple times per month? There's some MAJOR issues inside Outlook for Mac OS and it's not just mine.

  • Joel94994231
    Joel (@Joel94994231) reported

    @Outlook If the fkn log in system. I can't log in half the time says to many times login in use different browser. Just let me use a fkn password. I don't want 50 different methods. Ffs. Wake ******** up

  • spangger
    gee spang (@spangger) reported

    @Outlook How neat! Pity you CC and BCC lines are totally fvcking broken in the Android app and just do totally random auto populates and overwrites. #techGarbage

  • jeremywhiteley
    Jeremy Whiteley (@jeremywhiteley) reported

    @Outlook when are you going to fix copilot for outlook for the Mac? Most of time copilot menu disappears when creating an email. It’s useless. @MS_OutlookMac @Copilot

  • MagentaHere
    Magenta (@MagentaHere) reported

    @Microsoft @Office @Outlook I am unable to sign in so cannot get support for being locked out of important account. Please message me as a matter of urgency. I reside in the UK.

  • ditz4baldie
    rachel. (@ditz4baldie) reported

    @Outlook I’ve sent a direct message already. The problem is my son has set up 2 step verification but has no access to his phone since it’s been stolen but needs to access his emails for his insurance details

  • zxcbnmjklyf
    star🧚🏻‍♀️ (@zxcbnmjklyf) reported

    @Outlook I am having a technical issue with my personal account. It is being incorrectly flagged as a child account. When I try to verify my age by clicking 'I am a parent', I immediately get a 'Logout Failed' error page on all devices and browsers.

  • 1_hsm
    Cheekyman81 (@1_hsm) reported

    @Outlook why are your teams refusing to help with my Hotmail account recovery and just asking me to fill out recovery forms again and again. This is not working. This is my own personal data which I have a right to. Please help me

  • cedrickrier
    Cédric Krier (@cedrickrier) reported

    @Outlook can you fix your email server???? 🤬🤬🤬🤬

  • tanfrancisco
    Ture Anderson (@tanfrancisco) reported

    @Outlook the Outlook password recovery system is not working for me. It keeps kicking me out. Can I speak with somebody or can somebody please help me? I’ve been spending two weeks trying to get my email back.

  • catalinmpit
    Catalin (@catalinmpit) reported

    It looks like Outlook flagged emails for @Documenso, anyone know how I can fix this fast? cc @Outlook @MicrosoftHelps

  • lengafc
    Leng (@lengafc) reported

    @Outlook I am having a lot of issues singing in, please respond to my direct message

  • THarris1519
    Trevor Harris (@THarris1519) reported

    @Outlook @MicrosoftHelps can someone help me get my email address back and unblocked. Really creating an unnecessary issue in my life.

  • Howlett_James_
    James Howlett (@Howlett_James_) reported

    @outlook stop asking me to try the New Outlook .. i don’t want too .. its terrible. #microsoft #outlook #m365