Google Gemini is down, smartphone and tablet owners across the UK and US report.
Thousands started to report problems with the popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot in the last few hours. Independent website DownDetector, which tracks the performance of apps and online services based on chatter across social media, shows hundreds impacted in the UK and over 1,500 users in the United States.
At its peak, over 1,700 smartphone and tablet owners in the United States started to flag issues with the Google Gemini AI assistant
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Despite the flood of reports from disgruntled users, Google's online service dashboard claims that "all systems are operational."
For those who don't know, Google Gemini is the catch-all brand name for the US search engine's family of AI models designed to understand and generate text, images, audio, video, and code. Gemini powers AI features across Google's products, including Search, Gmail, Docs, and Android devices.
It can assist with tasks such as answering questions, summarising information, creating content, analysing data, and helping with programming. Several users have posted on X, explaining that Gemini is showing errors such as "1076" and "1099" when starting new chats.
Is Google Gemini down? Users receive ‘1076’ and ‘1099’ error messages
— Andrew Simon (@AntotSolomon) June 10, 2026
@Google big issue!! Gemini is down
— Mo Lio (@mouns86) June 10, 2026
Gemini is down for me today. Is anyone else facing the same issue?
— Kushal P (@KushalP35355403) June 10, 2026
@Google @GeminiApp #googledown #GoogleAI
Google Gemini has gone down, I feel lost 😞
— Owen Gardiner (@OwenJoeG) June 10, 2026
If you're experiencing these issues, there may be a short-term workaround. Some are saying if you re-paste in the same inquiry, it reboots the system and responds to your query. Google Gemini generally maintains high availability, experiencing widespread, full-platform outages only a handful of times a year.
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