Google Meet, the tech giant's popular video-calling app, had a lot of problems when thousands of users couldn't join meetings on Monday. Reports of outages quickly rose, making many people angry right when their workday was at its busiest.
A lot of people who tried to join meetings said they got stuck on blank screens or loading wheels. Some people could click "join now" and see nothing, while others couldn't get past the spinning icon at all, as per a report by CNET and Reuters.
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What has Google done?
Google admitted there was a problem on its Workspace Status page at 11:07 a.m. PT (2:07 p.m. ET).
"We are experiencing an issue with Google Meet.” "Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue,” the post reads, promising another update by 11:30 am PT.
The company said that engineers were looking into it and promised to give more updates, but they also said that there is no official workaround yet, as per a report by CNET and Reuters.
Some people found that switching to Safari or the Google Meet mobile app helped them for a short time, but there is no guarantee that this will work. Still, the outage made it impossible for thousands of other people to connect during important work calls.
Is Google Meet back after the service disruption?
Alphabet's Google announced on Monday that the outage affecting its video-communication service, Google Meet, has been resolved, as per a report by Reuters.
The company reported that customers were unable to join meet sessions due to slow user interface loads.
"From preliminary analysis, the root cause of the issue is a recent change in content edge cache," according to Google's status dashboard.
According to the company, the problem was fixed by undoing the modification.
More than 15,000 people said they had trouble joining calls.
Is there a way to get around Google Meet's downtime?
Google hasn't given one, but some people have been able to use Safari or the mobile app.
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What problems are users facing?
A lot of people who tried to join meetings said they got stuck on blank screens or loading wheels. Some people could click "join now" and see nothing, while others couldn't get past the spinning icon at all, as per a report by CNET and Reuters.
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What has Google done?
Google admitted there was a problem on its Workspace Status page at 11:07 a.m. PT (2:07 p.m. ET).
"We are experiencing an issue with Google Meet.” "Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue,” the post reads, promising another update by 11:30 am PT.
The company said that engineers were looking into it and promised to give more updates, but they also said that there is no official workaround yet, as per a report by CNET and Reuters.
Is there a way to join calls?
Some people found that switching to Safari or the Google Meet mobile app helped them for a short time, but there is no guarantee that this will work. Still, the outage made it impossible for thousands of other people to connect during important work calls.
Is Google Meet back after the service disruption?
Alphabet's Google announced on Monday that the outage affecting its video-communication service, Google Meet, has been resolved, as per a report by Reuters.
The company reported that customers were unable to join meet sessions due to slow user interface loads.
"From preliminary analysis, the root cause of the issue is a recent change in content edge cache," according to Google's status dashboard.
According to the company, the problem was fixed by undoing the modification.
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How many people were affected by the Google Meet outage?More than 15,000 people said they had trouble joining calls.
Is there a way to get around Google Meet's downtime?
Google hasn't given one, but some people have been able to use Safari or the mobile app.
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