Google Meet outage hits US as thousands report disruption

Google Meet outage disrupted thousands of users on Monday, September 8, 2025, as reports surged past 14,000 within minutes. The video conferencing platform experienced issues starting at 10:22 am PT, according to DownDetector, leaving users across the US unable to join meetings and sparking frustration on social media.

Google confirms outage, will share an update later

By 11:07 am PT, Google acknowledged the problem on its official Workspace Status page and confirmed that engineers were working on a fix. The company announced it would share another update by 11:30 am PT, as reported by CNET. Google also clarified that no workaround existed at the moment, though some users managed to access Google Meet through Safari browsers and mobile apps.

Users react to the outage on social media

Users quickly turned to social media to share their reactions. One X user wrote, “yikes, Google Meet down. Internal meetings on fire at the moment.” Another added, “Google Meet was down for 10-15 minutes and it’s crazy how disruptive that can be in a remote environment. Good reminder how well our technology usually works.” Others shared humorous takes on the outage: “google meet went down so we had to use slack huddle…3 ppl talking over each other, 1 echoing, 2 can’t unmute and somebody still asking how to join an existing huddle. peak productivity lol.”