US EditionGmail's Automatic Filters Were Broken, but Google Says It's Been Fixed
Google fixed Gmail's automatic filtering error that caused emails to be misclassified and spam warnings on trusted senders, affecting users from early Saturday morning, the company said.
- Around 5am Pacific on Saturday, Gmail users experienced inbox misclassification and delivery delays caused by filtering issues, Google reported on its status dashboard.
- Gmail's automatic Promotions and Updates filters appear to have broken, and Google has not disclosed a root cause but will publish an analysis after its internal investigation.
- Reports on forums and 9to5Google show many Gmail users saw Primary inboxes fill with messages normally in Promotions, Social, or Updates, alongside spam warnings and abnormal notifications on Saturday.
- Later on Saturday evening, Google posted that the issue was fully resolved for all users, but some misclassified spam warnings may persist on pre-fix messages.
- The Google Workspace status dashboard showed updates throughout Saturday as 9to5Google, Reddit and Google forums reported the outage with articles published on January 24 and January 25, 2026.
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If your Gmail account didn’t seem to be working properly Saturday, you were not alone. But Google says the issue has been be resolved. The official status dashboard for Google Workspace suggests that problems began at around 5am Pacific on Saturday morning, with users experiencing both “misclassification of emails in their inbox and additional spam warnings.” For me, that meant my Primary inbox was filled with messages that would normally appear…
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