# Is anyone else having a problem with Google Voice today?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-a-problem-with-google-voice-today/691111>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 18, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-a-problem-with-google-voice-today/691111 "2014-06-18T23:19:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b5ac83/32.png) [@The\_Mad\_Hermit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mad_Hermit)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2014, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-a-problem-with-google-voice-today/691111/1 "2014-06-18T23:19:31Z")

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I just made calls last night. Today when I went to use it, it tells me to download the voice app, then links me back to my Gmail page.

i wonder if the service is down, or did something happen to my settings? i uninstalled and reinstalled it to no avail.

Can anyone shed some light on this?

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**Author:** ![sco3tt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@sco3tt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sco3tt)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2014, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-else-having-a-problem-with-google-voice-today/691111/2 "2014-06-22T00:25:55Z")

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What app are you using to place calls? Google announced late last year that they were discontinuing support of [XMPP](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/05/google-abandons-open-standards-instant-messaging) via Google Chat/Voice on May 15 of this year, so any third-party products which use that protocol to make calls would be broken. However, as of right now my Obi100 VoIP adapter is still placing/receiving calls via GV/XMPP so they haven’t totally shut it down yet.