A backend database performance issue that stalled Gemini's tools catalog retrieval disrupted Workspace AI for thousands of users on Wednesday. Google says it's fixed — but declined to say what, if anything, changes going forward.
Google's Gemini outage — one of the largest AI-related service disruptions in Gemini's history — prevented Workspace users from accessing the AI assistant across multiple platforms on Wednesday, June 10, 2026. The issue began at approximately 3:26 a.m. PT and showed signs of recovery by mid-morning, with Google confirming full resolution by 6 p.m. PT that evening [1][2].
Affected users encountered "Something went wrong" errors with codes 1099 and 1076 when prompting Gemini in Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides, and the standalone Gemini app [1]. The disruption spanned MacOS, web, iOS, Android, and Gemini in Chrome [1][2].
Google shed light on the root cause in its final status update, attributing the outage to a performance issue in its backend database that impacted the retrieval of the Gemini App tools catalog [1][2].
"From preliminary analysis, the issue was triggered by a performance issue in our backend database which impacted the retrieval of Gemini App tools catalog," the company wrote in its Workspace Status Dashboard [2]. "Our engineers mitigated the issue by optimizing the load distribution across our backend database fleet."
In practical terms, the behind-the-scenes issue made it impossible for Gemini to pull the right information to complete tasks for affected users [1].
Gemini App Vice President Josh Woodward confirmed the disruption and ongoing修复 in a post on X, writing: "Heads up: Gemini is currently experiencing an outage. We're on it and will get everything back up ASAP. Some of the fixes are in, the rest coming very soon." [3]
DownDetector, which tracks user-reported service outages, received over 1,600 reports of malfunctions during peak work hours Wednesday [1]. Those reports fell throughout the day as Google rolled out fixes. The figure represents user-submitted reports and is not a confirmed count of total affected users — Google has not disclosed how many Workspace users were impacted overall [1].
(Disclosure: DownDetector is owned by the same parent company as CNET, Ziff Davis.) [1]
CNET reached out to Google for additional information on what caused the outage and what measures, if any, will be implemented to prevent a future disruption. Google declined to comment [1].
The incident comes roughly a month after Google showcased Gemini extensively at its Google I/O developer conference, where the AI assistant was integrated prominently across Google's business product lineup [1].
Google's Workspace Status Dashboard confirms the issue has been resolved for all affected users as of Wednesday, June 10 at 10:30 a.m. PT [2]. The company says it is continuing to monitor service stability [2].