Google says it has fixed Gmail’s spam and misclassification issues

If your Gmail account doesn’t seem to be working properly on Saturday, you’re not alone. But Google says the problem has been solved.

Google Workspace’s official status dashboard notes that the issues started around 5 a.m. PT on Saturday morning, with users experiencing “a misclassification of emails in their inbox and additional spam warnings.”

For me, this meant that my primary inbox was full of messages that typically appear in promotional, social, or update inboxes, and that spam warnings were showing up in emails from known senders. Other users on social media complained that “all the spam goes straight to my inbox” and that Gmail’s filters seem “totally broken all of a sudden.”

Google’s dashboard was updated with messages throughout the day on Saturday stating that the company was still working on the issue. Later Saturday evening, Google posted that the issue had been “fully resolved for all users.”

“Some Gmail users experienced misclassification of emails in their inbox, and a delay in receiving email,” the company said in a dashboard update. “In addition, misclassified spam warnings from the incident may persist for existing messages that were received before the issue was resolved.”

The company also said it “will publish an analysis of this incident once we have completed our internal investigation.”

This post was first published on January 24, 2026. It has been updated to include Google’s statement that the issue has been resolved.