On Monday, users encountered challenges with the videoconferencing tool Google Meet, which appeared to be experiencing an outage.

Reports of complications with Google Meet surged notably on Down Detector shortly after 1 p.m. ET. It is essential to recognize that these problems are reported by users and may not impact everyone. (Disclosure: Both Down Detector and Mashable are properties of Ziff Davis.)

Google acknowledged that Meet was facing issues in a recent update to its app status dashboard. “Some customers using Google Meet are facing difficulties with loading the meet interface,” the update mentioned, indicating that this could lead to slow loading times or a failure to join meetings.

“Our engineering team is actively investigating the situation,” the update continued.

Numerous individuals shared their experiences online regarding the Google Meet issues, with some expressing a sense of relief over the unexpected cancellation of meetings.

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