For the last few hours, we've seen reports from multiple users as well as Reddit threads and a huge spike on Downdetector about Gmail.com and enterprise Workspace email. The symptoms being reported are:
* Spam detection appears to be broken, with obvious spam and phishing emails appearing in user's inboxes with the message "Be careful with this message. Gmail hasn't scanned this message for spam, unverified senders, or harmful software."
* Obviously legitimate emails being put in the Spam folder
* Rules not being applied, or inconsistently applied
* Inbound and outbound emails being delayed 10-15 minutes, with duplicates being sent or received.
* Users being redirected to a "Verify It's You" 2FA screen on login, but being given no options to authenticate themselves, or app specific passwords suddenly not working.
https://old.reddit.com/r/GMail/comments/1qln9zp/gmail_not_filtering_promoti…
Approximately 5 hours after this started, Google updated their dashboard with: https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/NNnDkY9CJ36annsfytjQ
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Gmail users might see banners indicating missing spam checks.
We are experiencing an issue with Gmail beginning on Saturday, 2026-01-24 05:02 US/Pacific.
Users might experience the following banner: “Be careful with this message. Gmail hasn't scanned this message for spam, unverified senders, or harmful software.”
We advise the users to be extra diligent in lieu of missing spam checks.
Our engineering team is investigating the issue.
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