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API Operational
Notify website Operational
Email sending Operational
Email delivery receipts Operational
Text message sending Operational
Text message delivery receipts Operational
Text message receiving Operational
Letter sending Operational
Send files by email Operational
Download files sent by email Operational
Callbacks Operational
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Feb 3, 2026

No incidents reported today.

Feb 2, 2026
Resolved - The issue affecting letter formatting has now been resolved.

Affected templated letters sent between 15:50 and 16:45 this afternoon have been regenerated and sent to the print provider for printing. All other letters were unaffected by this incident and will be sent as normal.

We’re sorry for the inconvenience to you and your users.

Thank you for your patience

GOV.UK Notify

Feb 2, 20:08 GMT
Investigating - We are currently investigating an issue where some templated letters have not formatting correctly in Notify.

Templated letters sent between 15:50 and 16:45 this afternoon have been affected. These will not be sent for printing until the issue has been resolved. Once this issue has been resolved we will send the letters for printing.

Letters sent after 16:45 have not been affected.

Feb 2, 17:37 GMT
Feb 1, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jan 31, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jan 30, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jan 29, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jan 28, 2026
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Jan 28, 20:14 GMT
Monitoring - Notify is currently operating normally but would be unable to scale up in response to high volumes of traffic due to an issue with our cloud provider. Users sending large volumes of messages may experience delays.
Jan 28, 17:00 GMT
Jan 27, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jan 26, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jan 25, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jan 24, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jan 23, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jan 22, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jan 21, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jan 20, 2026
Resolved - The issue affecting inbound text messages has now been resolved.

We’re sorry for the inconvenience to you and your users.

Thank you for your patience

GOV.UK Notify

Jan 20, 14:47 GMT
Monitoring - Inbound text messages are now being received normally. Any inbound messages that were delayed should now have arrived.

We will continue to monitor.

Jan 20, 12:27 GMT
Identified - GOV.UK Notify is having problems receiving some inbound text messages.

Not all inbound text messages are affected.

We have reported the issue to our text message providers and we’re waiting for an update.

This issue does not affect sending text messages.

We will publish an update on the GOV.UK Notify status page later today.

Thank you for your patience.

GOV.UK Notify

Jan 20, 09:51 GMT