Google Workspace outage, 18 August 2026

**Summary:** Investigating access issues with Classroom’s new web homepage. **Description:** We are investigating reports of access issues with Classroom’s new...

Started
Resolved
18 Aug 2026, 22:30 UTC (after 3 h 27 min)
Impact
Not stated
Affected
Classroom

Is this still happening?

No. Google Workspace marked this incident resolved on 18 Aug 2026, 22:30 UTC, 3 h 27 min after it began.

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

Last update from Google Workspace

Summary [Mitigated] Access issues for Workspace Admins with Classroom’s web homepage. Description The issue with Classroom has been resolved for all affected users as of Tuesday, 2026-08-18 15:30 PDT. From preliminary analysis, the issue was triggered due to a recent change which caused the permission mismatch, our Engineering team has rolled out the fix to mitigate the impact. We thank you for your patience while we worked on resolving the issue. Symptoms Workspace Admins may have experienced permission errors when accessing Classroom’s web homepage. Remaining Classroom functionality remained unaffected. The Classroom Mobile App and the Classroom API were unaffected by the issue. Workaround...

18 Aug 2026, 23:02 UTC

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