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Google Workspace: **Summary** Google Chat is experiencing Issue with creating a new conversations **Description** Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue. We will provide an update by Monday, 2026-02-23 00:45 PST with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption. **Customer Symptoms** Users may experience errors when attempting to create new conversations or spaces in Google Chat. Existing conversations remain functional. **Workaround** None at the moment

MinorStatus: resolvedStarted Resolved (2.0 h)3 updateswww.google.com (opens in new tab)

Affected components: Google Chat

Timeline of updates

  1. service disruption

    Summary
    Google Chat is experiencing Issue with creating a new conversations
    Description
    Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.
    We will provide an update by Monday, 2026-02-23 00:45 PST with current details.
    We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.
    Customer Symptoms
    Users may experience errors when attempting to create new conversations or spaces in Google Chat. Existing conversations remain functional.
    Workaround
    None at the moment

  2. service disruption

    Summary
    Google Chat is experiencing issues with creating new conversations.
    Description
    Our engineering teams are actively working on mitigation efforts to restore the ability to create new conversations as quickly as possible. We do not have any ETA at the moment.
    We will provide an update by Monday, 2026-02-23 01:30 PST with current details.
    Customer Symptoms
    Users may experience errors when attempting to create new Direct Messages (DM) or new chat spaces in Google Chat. This issue specifically affects the creation of new conversations; however, users can continue to send and receive messages in existing conversations and spaces
    Workaround
    None at the moment

  3. resolved

    The issue with Google Chat has been resolved for all affected users as of Monday, 2026-02-23 00:35 PST.
    As per our preliminary analysis, the incident was triggered by a recent configuration update. Our engineering team performed a rollback to mitigate the impact and verified the stability.
    We thank you for your patience while we worked on resolving the issue.

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Status incident (vendor impact label: minor) posted by Google Workspace, started 2026-02-23 06:32 UTC, resolved after 2.0 h, 3 update(s).

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**Summary** Google Chat is experiencing Issue with creating a new conversations **Description** Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue. We will provide an update by Monday, 2026-02-23 00:45 PST with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption. **Customer Symptoms** Users may experience errors when attempting to create new conversations or spaces in Google Chat. Existing conversations remain functional. **Workaround** None at the moment
Vendor
Google Workspace
Date
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