Google Meet Is Back After An Outage. Here Are A Few Workarounds For Next Time

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Google Meet knowledgeable a wide outage.
There are a fewer workarounds, for illustration utilizing nan app aliases different browser.
Google has since fixed problem.

Google Meet is backmost aft a wide outage, Monday.

At nan clip of this writing, Google's Cloud Service Health Status page is reporting nary work issues pinch Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Drive.

"Today immoderate users whitethorn person knowledgeable a short disruption of work erstwhile loading Google Meet. Service has since been restored for immoderate impacted users," a Google spokesperson told ZDNET.

Google's celebrated video convention software, which we named nan champion video conferencing software for mini businesses, began having issues earlier successful nan day.

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Shortly earlier 2 p.m. ET, reports of an outage started spiking connected DownDetector.com, an outage search tract owned by ZDNET's genitor company, Ziff Davis.

After nary problems each day, adjacent to 15,000 users abruptly reported issues. Within minutes, users were flooding societal media pinch complaints astir missing meetings and classes -- and of course, a fewer celebrations that nan gathering that should person been an email was now toast.

Given that nan reports spiked astatine once, it seemed for illustration nan outage affected a batch of users. Other Google products, for illustration Workspace, Chat, Gmail, and moreover Search, besides saw a spike successful reports, but obscurity adjacent nan level that Meet did.

Google acknowledged nan problem connected its Workspace Dashboard, wherever it said, "Some Google Meet customers are experiencing issues pinch loading nan meet UI," and "our engineering squad continues to analyse nan issue."

The institution saw a akin disruption successful June, but it was resolved successful little than an hour.

A fewer workarounds for nan adjacent Google Meet outage

I was capable to get nan Google Meet website to load during nan outage, but it kept spinning if I attempted to commencement a meeting. I did find a fewer workarounds, though.

The Meet app loaded good for me, and I was capable to make and person a video telephone erstwhile I tried. If nan desktop type of Meets has a early outage, effort nan app first. Some users person said they were capable to usage Meet successful Safari, though I wasn't capable to trial that. This mightiness not beryllium a viable reply for large-scale meetings and classes, but it mightiness get you by if you're looking for a one-on-one.

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