Google Meet Outage Hits Thousands in Asia on Nov. 26

Google Meet, Google's popular video conferencing platform, suffered a widespread outage on November 26, 2025, leaving thousands of users across Asia, particularly in India, unable to access meetings via the web interface. The disruption began in the early afternoon local time in affected regions and persisted for several hours, impacting online work calls, virtual classes, and job interviews.

Reports from outage tracking site Downdetector indicated a sharp increase in complaints, with more than 1,700 users logging issues by mid-afternoon. Approximately 66 percent of those affected described problems loading the Google Meet website, while 32 percent reported server connection failures that prevented them from joining or maintaining calls. The outage primarily struck major Indian cities including Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Kolkata, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Hyderabad, and Madurai, where users encountered frozen screens, endless loading wheels, or complete inability to enter meetings.

Google acknowledged the problem through its Workspace status dashboard, attributing the issue to server-side disruptions isolated to the Asia region. The company stated that further details would be...