Google Gemini 7-hour outage, 2026-06-11

Category: Outage
Status: confirmed
Sources: TechRadar live updates, Tom's Guide, StatusGator Gemini
Summary: Google Gemini experienced a widespread service failure on 2026-06-11 lasting approximately 7 hours. The incident began around 06:11 ET / 11:11 BST. Users encountered error 1076 (chat thread failure) and error 1099 (server-side failure) consistently. Google's engineering team applied mitigations and declared recovery around 14:30 PT / 17:30 ET. No root cause was published at time of collection.
Why it matters: Multi-hour Gemini API and consumer product failure; teams with production Gemini API dependencies should implement fallback routing for extended outages.
Follow-up: Watch for Google postmortem with root cause.