Google Gemini is down for many — here's what we know about the potential outage so far

Officially under investigation

Google has identified this officially as a problem, but that hasn't really shed any further light on the matter. The Google Workspace Status dashboard says that there is indeed an "Incident affecting Gemini", and the specific incident report says that "Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue." But that's it.

We may know more soon, though, because Google says: "We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2026-06-10 06:30 PDT".

Still bubbling away

Today's Google Gemini problems haven't mushroomed into a full global outage, but neither are the error messages going away.

Here in the UK, the reports have stabilized at around the 450 mark on Downdetector (above) but are starting to move in the wrong direction. In the US, they've fallen slightly to around the 610 mark over the last 30 minutes, but many continue to report getting the same 'error 1706' and 'error 1099' messages we've experienced.

There's still no official word from Google on what the problem is or when it might be fixed.

The error messages continue

Social media sites like X (above) are starting to getting flooded with frustrated messages from Google Gemini users.

Like @SenorZatara above, we've been seeing both 'error 1076' and 'error 1099' messages after typing a new prompt, across both the web and app. Gemini says that error 1076 means "Gemini is hitting a wall with a specific chat thread", potentially due to browser memory overload.

The 'error 1099' message, meanwhile, is "almost always a server-side issue on Google's end rather than a problem with your device". Gemini suggests trying to log out and log back in, or simply be patient – stating that it "often resolves itself automatically within a few hours once server loads stabilize".

Which probably isn't what you want to here if you're trying to finish a project to a deadline...

Issues across desktop and mobile

We're seeing those pesky 'error 1076' and 'error 1099' messages on Gemini across both its web and mobile versions, so this doesn't appear to platform-specific.

This seems to be the case for most people who are affected — on Downdetector, 57% of the reports in the US are for the app, while 36% are from people having issues on the web.

Many have reported trying different phones and accounts with no success, so it seems the only solution (for now) is to immediately re-enter your prompt (see below).

A temporary workaround

While many on the TechRadar team are getting different "something went wrong" error messages, there does seem to be one temporary solution to the problems.

Immediately typing the same query into the Gemini chat box seems to get it to work. That's not something we'll want to be doing all day, but it is a short-term workaround while Google irons out the problems.

Right now, Google is reporting that "all systems are operational" on Gemini, so hopefully these issues will be short-lived.

Reports are on the rise

We first notice the Gemini issues on the TechRadar team, with many of us experiencing error messages or simply being kicked back to the prompt screen. And according to Downdetector, we're not alone — with reported issues now spiking there.

We've experienced a range of error messages, from 'error 1099' to 'error 1076' (a personal favorite of mine), which is seemingly a "handshake or initial connection timeout error" (according to Gemini).

Yet right now, there are no official problems on the Gemini status page. It'll be interesting to see if that changes soon if the reports continue to rise...