Google Gemini is down for many — here’s what we know about the potential outage so far

Reports are on the rise

We first notice the Gemini issues on the TechRadar team, with many of us experiencing error messages or simply being kicked back to the prompt screen. And according to Downdetector, we’re not alone — with reported issues now spiking there.

We’ve experienced a range of error messages, from ‘error 1099’ to ‘error 1076’ (a personal favorite of mine), which is seemingly a “handshake or initial connection timeout error” (according to Gemini).