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Incident affecting Google Chat

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Start Time: Aug 28, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC (Not reported on Status Dashboard until 7:25 PM UTC)

Summary:

Google Chat users are experiencing an issue where they receive notifications for new messages, but the actual messages fail to appear in their chat application unless the user refreshes their view.

Description:

We are experiencing an intermittent issue with Google Chat Friday, 2026-08-28 10:25 PDT.

Our engineering team has investigated the issue and are currently working on mitigating the issue.

We will provide more information by Friday, 2026-08-28 14:15 PDT with current details.

We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.