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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 (56%)
- Errors (22%)
- Website Down (22%)
Live Outage Map
The most recent Outlook.com outage reports came from the following cities:
| City | Problem Type | Report Time |
|---|---|---|
 Surco
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Sign in | 24 minutes ago |
 Hopkins
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Sign in | 1 hour ago |
 Arrondissement de Charleroi
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Errors | 2 hours ago |
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Parkville
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Sign in | 2 hours ago |
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Seattle
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Sign in | 3 hours ago |
 Gosport
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Website Down | 4 hours ago |
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Community Discussion
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Outlook.com Issues Reports
Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:
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Patricia Young (@FreakyPatty) reported@Outlook what is happening with #microsoft & #microsoft? Changed my password for outlook yesterday as PW I used for years being rejected and now my new PW keeps saying ‘too many login attempts’ verifying with you ‘prove you are a human’ is hard
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Tucker Goodrich (@TuckerGoodrich) reportedGmail 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.
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H_O_ward (@xbonz08) reported@Outlook Dear Microsoft. Your Outlook email program is performing beyond all expectations. I'm down to 50 spam emails a day. Thanks for the bang-up you do on eliminating spam.
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Sam Golding (@SamG0996) reported@Sad_Saad @Outlook Yep I am also having same problems and not getting text message. Have you got sorted yet? Any suggestions @Outlook
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Cédric Krier (@cedrickrier) reported@Outlook can you fix your email server???? 🤬🤬🤬🤬
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Johnboso Nnamani (@NJohnbosco99511) reportedWhy is @Outlook down?
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mother lee. (@heylee824) reportedthe search bar is not working the way it should @Outlook 😔
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Carly Miller (@Carly_Miller7) reported@Microsoft @Outlook @MicrosoftHelps MICROSOFT SUPPORT IS TERRIBLE!!! For the past month I have been trying to contact someone for something soooooo simple. I want to delete my Microsoft 365 Business account but it will not let me due to enterprise apps I can’t remove. PLEASE HELP
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Love Gupta (@Lovegupta_) reported@MicrosoftHelps @Outlookindia @Outlook i cant signin to my Microsoft account even after entering password and security info, i have already sent a dm
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Griff (@Grifeweizen) reported@Microsoft Outlook and teams mobile apps not even opening on android galaxy s25...this is a serious issue @MicrosoftTeams @Outlook. It's a blank screen or an endless loading spiral.
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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.
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HSM_81 (@1_hsm) reported@Outlook Hi, I have sent a DM as requested but I still have not heard back from you. Can you please tell me when I can expect to hear a response back? Recovery forms still not working for me.
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Saddiq (@philly_lawdog) reported@Outlook Im having a real life issue with my outlook inbox thats bothering me
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frostlord (@thefrostlord) reported@andrewrdn463 @Outlook i have the same issue also a lot of people have the same issue fix @Outlook
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Hey Its Burt (@josephburt) reportedProbably not what @Microsoft /@Office want to hear... yeah can you remote in and fix the two @Outlook apps running. Sounds like you still can't make a stable OS ...
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C.C. (@CCAC968) reported@Outlook my company emails are delayed how do I fix it? There three people whose emails are delayed
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Lee Charters (@cheeckycharters) reported@Outlook Can't message you. So I'll have to post this. My phone of 8yrs just died so I got a new one. Tried to sign in multiple times but no joy with password, couldn't use authenticator as no password. Been locked out of my email account that I've had for 25yrs. Help please.
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N Rose (@NRose_N5) reported@tanfrancisco @Outlook I have exact same issue and I’m going INSANE! Important documents need to be accessed! Did you manage to get through to an actual human at all?
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FallingDebris (@VolatileAmine) reported@Outlook you’d think your server could block phishing emails. FFS, the floodgate is open.
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Ron (@RonPipes) reported@Outlook Fix it please . 💔#EX1255397
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Ross Barker (@RossBarker79) reported@Outlook why is it no longer possible to communicate with a human on live chat or a telephone? You ai is horrific and cannot solve issues
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maybe: rockie/pops 🤠 (@gooddadgenes) reportedit seems you have bigger issues, @Microsoft i guess I’ll wait…😒 cc: @Outlook
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Nayeem (@Nayeem_747) reported@Outlook My account is locked without any reason I tried to verify with phone number still it’s not working
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Shawn Farrell (@farrellshawnp) reported.@Microsoft .@Outlook hold notices from a public library shouldn't be the innocent targets of your rate limiting. Please fix this!
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Charlie Stacey (They /Them) (@CharlieStaceyUK) reported@Outlook I’m a sole global admin fully locked out of my business account. The phone number allocated to my case has issues receiving calls. I desperately need this sorted so I can work. Is there anything more I can do, at the very least to change the phone number?
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Monica Rangel (@MonicaLRangel) reported@Outlook Have been having issues with outlook all day today is there something going on?
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A R Pᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠᅠ (@altieri_palorca) reported@Outlook I've already done that, but nobody answered. I need this urgently — time is running out. My emails are still in the server snapshots, and soon it will no longer be possible to restore them. Please escalate my case to the engineering team
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Anathema🇵🇱🏴🏴 (@Dyslogix) reportedMicroslop, fix your damn email ..... wtf @Outlook
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Joel (@Joel94994231) reported@mentalmasterpie @Outlook Problems everywhere. Microsoft Outlook is such trans
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CA Shrenik Gandhi (@shrenikmgandhi) reported@Outlook @MicrosoftIndia I am struggling to get access to my official mail id since past more than 3 months due to technical issue where i am not getting authentication code. Raised issue through my vendor but they are also not getting any response.