Google Chat outage, 23 February 2026

**Summary** Google Chat is experiencing Issue with creating a new conversations **Description** Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue. We will...

Started
Resolved
23 Feb 2026, 08:35 UTC (after 2 h 3 min)
Impact
Minor
Affected
Google Chat

Is this still happening?

No. Google Chat marked this incident resolved on 23 Feb 2026, 08:35 UTC, 2 h 3 min after it began.

Right now: Google Chat reports all systems operational. (as of 5 Nov, 00:11 UTC) Live Google Chat status

Last update from Google Chat

The issue with Google Chat has been resolved for all affected users as of Monday, 2026-02-23 00:35 PST. As per our preliminary analysis, the incident was triggered by a recent configuration update. Our engineering team performed a rollback to mitigate the impact and verified the stability. We thank you for your patience while we worked on resolving the issue.

23 Feb 2026, 08:54 UTC

Read the full incident on the official Google Chat status page

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