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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 (71%)
- Website Down (15%)
- Errors (14%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:
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Sign in | 1 day ago |
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Website Down | 2 days ago |
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Sign in | 2 days ago |
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Website Down | 3 days ago |
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Sign in | 3 days ago |
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Errors | 3 days ago |
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Outlook.com Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Emmanuel Valle (@valle_emma61666) reported@simoncarrington @Outlook Yep. Skip the form loop and call support or use account recovery from a device he’s used before, same wifi helps a lot. I heard about Fomr and lol even free form tools feel less broken than Outlook’s mess
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Sedal Gürses (@sgg1903) reported@UrsullineTV @Outlook Faced the same issue; @MarenXyber on X solved it.
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Faisal 🔻 (@faisal9051911) reported@lovemesomeALLI @Outlook They unlocked my account and was able to login with my password
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SpongeBob (@Jack_the_westi) reported@TBanton18 @Microsoft @Outlook I had the same problem a while ago, absolutely impossible to speak to a human at Microsoft to get support, finally I switched to Gmail, caused a lot of disruption because my old Hotmail is used to verify loads of passwords, annoyingly I keep getting reminders to log into Hotmail
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Chayan Chakrabarti (@lazychakrabarti) reported@Outlook unable to login to my 15 years old Hotmail account even though I have the same phone number, your captcha verifications are so lame
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Gurjot S (@drewbiebertbh) reported@Outlook fix the issue pls
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Santanu Banerjee (@KolkataRsogolla) reportedClient emails a table for various component names (column1) and costs (column2). I click forward in @Outlook and lo-behold, the table converts to something unreadable, each cell has been put in its own row! Why? @Microsoft please resolve this issue ASAP or moving to @ZohoMail
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Jamie (@TaxPayerxxxxx) reported@Microsoft @Outlook How is it you have to PAY to protect your accounts location wise? Why has no government stepped in here. I have a Hotmail/Outlook account that’s constantly getting Auth prompts from other countries. Why can I not restrict it to my own! It would fix 90% !
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Yogee (@misteryogee) reportedMy live/microsoft userid/email is in some leaked hack db and now I keep getting these Authenticator requests every few hours by someone trying to access my account. @Microsoft @Outlook @MicrosoftHelps is there a way to geofence my account and lock all access attempts from other countries. This can’t be just a problem unique to me
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NewsMän (@KueddeR) reported@MauricioHunt2 @Outlook I'm having the same problem. Four emails I sent to Hotmail in the last few hours were bounced back.
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B. (@Drum_y) reported@nar1Thirty1 @justjamess87 @Outlook Still down here too
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Finchwizard (@Finchwizard) reportedWe’re in 2026 and @Outlook still can’t fix notifications and badges on iOS. It’s NEVER RIGHT. Always get these mystery notifications. Telling me 2 new emails and there’s only 1. Most frustrating thing. #outlooksucks
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Oktay (@OktayAykut1) reported@MicrosoftHelps @Microsoft @Outlook Update: I finally managed to recover my account. I had to install the Outlook app on iOS and go through the “forgot password” process there. Somehow the verification (robot test) worked there, and I was finally able to reset my password. This just shows how broken the system is — the same process didn’t work anywhere else. Also, Microsoft’s support is even worse than the system itself. No real help, no human support, just useless automated responses. This experience was extremely frustrating.
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Mukund (@ibmindia2011) reported@lazychakrabarti @Outlook I am also facing the same issue are you going to off hotmail service in India?
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B. (@Drum_y) reported@Outlook hello, still not able to have access to my email. Can you fix it?
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Wild (@Wildlvl) reported@Outlook @simoncarrington @Outlook i have been messaging you for the same damn problem and you havnt answered in 2 days
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why (@kirk202020) reported@Outlook I just want to sign in to my email wtf is a "pin" how many times you need to confirm it's me ? Email password phone number and now a pin I never set up sick of this
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Hakan (@Hakan1630386105) reported@disnetic @MicrosoftHelps @Outlook Had this issue; TysonNerd on X sorted it.
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John (@gruntjeeper) reported@Outlook It’s still ****** up. Fix this **** ya mfers.
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Max (@Dobbie_88) reported@MSFT365Status @Outlook @MSFT365Status still not working 24 hours+ later?? It’s not fixed. I just want to be able to log into my account normally, without having to authenticate how many times I breathe per day!
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paula atkinson (@xmckeallax) reported@Outlook like many people I've been logged out in my phone and can't log back in despite using the correct password. This problem has been an issue for a month now, what are you actually doing to fix it?
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Dar99 (@Dar8206) reported@lovemesomeALLI @Microsoft @Outlook Same for me . SMS code is not working so impossible to Connect even on Outlook app…. Same **** since monday
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Jane Darling (@janeydarling1) reported@outlook down again? This is ridiculous
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Craig (@cjl85718) reported@simoes_romeo @Outlook Yup. Just fixed it. From last login attempt - need to wait about 1hr. Then these steps: Delete outlook from iPhone mail. Then hard reset phone. Then reinstall Outlook. This worked for me - might help you. Good luck
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Andrew (@andrewrdn463) reported@Outlook Correct passwords are not being accepted by Outlook: "You've tried to sign in too many times with an incorrect account or password."
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princess (@princess420604) reported@Outlook are you aware of any glitches with shared calendars? I’ve lost 2 of my family calendars overnight and they can’t see mine anymore either. Have deleted them and readded. Still not working.
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Simon Ward (@SimonJWard93) reported@Outlook Fix it. It’s getting stupid now. At least give communication you are aware and looking into the issue?
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osman (@osman_cetin) reported@Outlook for days i am trying to reset my password to access some really urgent medical files and eventhough i have registered phone it seems that verification method is not working at all. This is very urgent medical need and would appreciate your assistance
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Darren Richards (@DRichards25) reported@Outlook Hi there,my mother got kicked out of her outlook yesterday bc of the outage,now she can’t get back into it bc the # on the account,she no longer has,so she can’t receive the code,help pls!
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Chris Walker (@Cwalker6033) reported@Outlook please fix the issue, cannot log into my account, cannot reset my password, cannot speak to anyone at Microsoft. Poor support for a paid service!