Outlook.com status: access issues and outage reports
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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.
- Sign in (66%)
- Errors (17%)
- Website Down (17%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 4 hours ago |
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Sign in | 6 hours ago |
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Website Down | 15 hours ago |
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Sign in | 16 hours ago |
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Sign in | 17 hours ago |
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Sign in | 17 hours ago |
Community Discussion
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Outlook.com Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Shaz 🦋 (@soxxylady) reported@MicrosoftHelps @Outlook SORT THE MAIL APP OUT. IM NOT UPDATING MY PHONE JUST TO RECEIVE EMAILS. IVE LOST ALL MY IMPORTANT WORK EMAILS AS THEY ARE BLANK ON ALL OF THEM. SIGN IN STILL NOT WORKING ETC ETC. YOU BASTARDS 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Liz 🇺🇸 (@ThisIsLizMK) reported@Outlook Read the room, you idiots!! Fix outlook already!! 🤬🤬🤬
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Souvik Mukherjee (@souvik610) reported@Outlook I'm having authentication error for my outlook email id
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James Alexander (@justjamess87) reported@Outlook how am i STILL not able to access my EMAILS??? Why are your services STILL DOWN?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 Coming upto 48 hrs now! This is ridiculous and absolutely unacceptable. #outlook #outlookdown #hotmail ******* Joke!
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alli. (@lovemesomeALLI) reportedSooo anyone else's email still down, still not allowing them to reset their password? Saying 'too many codes try again tomorrow'??? W T F!!! @Microsoft @Outlook
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Jgs (@Jgsbm5) reported@Outlook Where’s your updated?! What is there no communication. This is not just an IOS issue. This is on desktop as well! We’re locked out!
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Jgs (@Jgsbm5) reported@Outlook Where’s your updated?! What is there no communication. This is not just an IOS issue. This is on desktop as well! We’re locked out!
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✨ Laura ✨ (@Laura23WL) reported@outlook 24 hours + & it’s still down 🤬🤬🤬 can’t fix it via any of they ways they are saying to do. Need it fixed waiting for important work emails that could potentially make or break whether I keep my job or not.
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Greggy Ramone (@GreggyRamone) reported@lovemesomeALLI @Outlook The app won’t let you login with your other email account?
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alli. (@lovemesomeALLI) reported@faisal9051911 @Outlook I'm having the same issue! 21 years too!
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RAV3N9999 (@rav3n9999) reported@MSFT365Status Hi @Outlook and @MSFT365Status It has been >24hrs and lots of us did the steps you listed. I myself just tried to access my email accounts a minute ago through ios email app and also Outlook email app. This is still NOT working! It keeps asking for entering the captcha codes and not excepting the entered password! Can you please prioritize the resolution of this access issue?
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Leslie Berry ☮️ 💙🍀🌎🌟 (@lacberry1) reported@Outlook Instead of posting stuff, try getting the Outlook issue resolved! Still not working!!
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Shoes (@J_Keith101) reported@MSFT365Status @MicrosoftHelps @Outlook I am still unable to get into my Hotmail account after 3+ days on ANY device or app and internet. Please take these issues seriously and fix this. This is NOT an intermittent problem, it is an OUTAGE.
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Amber Rose♊️✒️ (@AmberWithLuv) reported@laura_smith1985 @Outlook It has been down since I woke up at 5 AM. It's almost 4 PM now. Reallllllllyy frustrating
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Brett Paddock (@Brett_Paddock) reported@Outlook @MicrosoftHelps Still trying to access my emails, Still in an endless loop of trying to sign in .. When will it end ..
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Han. (@HanaJohnson92) reportedDay 3 without being able to access my emails. I am now able to get a code through my phone number, but then is asking me for a second authentication, I then type in the code my Authy app gives me and it’s not working! @Outlook @MSFT365Status @MicrosoftHelps
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Travis Braman (@michkid) reported@Outlook We can’t even login
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⚡️Rob Truss⚡️ (@robtruss81) reported@Outlook is the app still down in the uk ? Can’t log in !
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Phil Hutchings (@PhilHutchings14) reported@MrJoeRobinson @Outlook @Microsoft I feel your frustrations Joseph hopefully you get to the bottom of this issue sooner rather than later and get back logged in #prayforjoe
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Nicky Cowell (@NickyCowell) reported@Gem83Col @Outlook @Microsoft Mine is also down but if you log into Hotmail via your web browser it should work. That’s the only way I can check my emails
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alli. (@lovemesomeALLI) reported@CarlaJo56727016 @Microsoft @Outlook I have it on my phone already, same issue
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MWBEATS (@mwbeats) reported@Outlook I keep getting the same message that MFA phone code verification isn’t available now - I need that to login to reset my password. It’s been 36 hours. Please help.
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Luke Hearns (@LHearns2) reported@RginaG @Outlook @Microsoft Yup. Same here. And all steps that some people have said fixed the issue for them, have not worked for me either.
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Ms.Tab00 (@MsTab00) reported@Outlook y’all are out of line?!?!! Servers down for over 24 hours
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TONY SANDERSON (@EMANONF1) reported@Outlook Email still down here in the UK. How can I work like this?
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Ellie Harris (@ellieeeharris) reported@Outlook how is outlook still down!! I haven’t been able to get onto my emails for a couple of days now. Help!!
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K2 (@whatbluecheck) reported@Outlook Hotmail access has become impossible. With password "You've tried to sign in too many times with an incorrect account or password." and then with phone verification "That verification method isn't working right now." What the hell Microsoft??? Locked out of emails for a couple of weeks now.
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Oktay (@OktayAykut1) reported@MicrosoftHelps Locked out of my account for 3 days. Reset doesn’t work, verification fails. Recovery email & phone are linked. No support. Please fix this. @Outlook
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David Moreno (@davmoreno) reported@Outlook Read the room. Your outage has affected millions (including myself) today. I can't tell if I have inbox overload if I can't access my inbox...
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Ms.Tab00 (@MsTab00) reported@Outlook Posting while your servers are down is asinine behavior 🥴