# Why won't my Gmail display? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 26, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-my-gmail-display/960168 "2022-02-26T22:20:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-my-gmail-display/960168/1 "2022-02-26T22:20:44Z")
It shows my mail in my various tabs, but when an individual email is clicked, this is what I get: [![](https://i.postimg.cc/mrgsV8wr/weird-gmail.jpg) ](https://i.postimg.cc/mrgsV8wr/weird-gmail.jpg) clicking on View Messages doesn’t get it to display. Rebooting didn’t either. anyone with suggestions? It just started randomly today ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-my-gmail-display/960168/2 "2022-02-26T23:17:27Z")
Log out of Gmail and log back in again, and if that doesn’t work power down your computer and restart it. This happened to me once, but I can’t remember how I fixed it. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-my-gmail-display/960168/3 "2022-02-26T23:47:04Z")
Did both of those things, still no change from google ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-my-gmail-display/960168/4 "2022-02-26T23:49:30Z")
Is it happening for all emails or just some? ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-my-gmail-display/960168/5 "2022-02-26T23:50:44Z")
[downdetector.com](http://downdetector.com) is reporting some gmail issues and outages today, but I can’t find anything very specific. All they do is a sort of meta-report on the number of complaints today, and a bit about the general subject. One of those general subjects today is “receiving” email. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-my-gmail-display/960168/6 "2022-02-26T23:52:17Z")
all emails, primary, social, promotions, sent emails. The draft emails are intact however, and the chat dialogues are preserved. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-my-gmail-display/960168/7 "2022-02-26T23:53:56Z")
@dolphinboy Well, I can certainly sit it out and see what happens. I do have different gmail accounts for work & personal and they’re both affected by this. thanks for both your inputs thus far ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-my-gmail-display/960168/8 "2022-02-26T23:56:28Z")
Do you run Gmail on your cellphone? Is that working okay but just not your PC? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2022, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-my-gmail-display/960168/9 "2022-02-26T23:58:35Z")
no, just on my home desktop. I can check it from my work connection on Monday. Or see what it does on my wife’s iPad later. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [February 27, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-wont-my-gmail-display/960168/10 "2022-02-27T00:15:41Z")
Well, now others are complaining about this currently at Gmail’s helpsite, at least. One suggestion is to turn off Ublock or ADblock but I’m not turning off ADblock quite yet over this. I will wait for more time and info.