Monitoring - Text message sending and text message delivery receipts are beginning to recover.

We are continuing to work with our providers to identify the root cause of the problem, and will continue to monitor performance.

Thank you for your patience

GOV.UK Notify

Nov 11, 2026 - 15:08 GMT
Update - We’re investigating another text message delivery issue with our providers.

Some text messages may be delayed or fail to deliver and there is a delay in receiving delivery receipts.

We are working with our providers to understand the root cause of the problem.

We’ll keep you updated throughout the incident.

Thank you for your patience.

GOV.UK Notify

Nov 11, 2026 - 13:15 GMT
Update - We’re investigating another text message delivery issue with our providers.

Some text messages may be delayed or fail to deliver and there is a delay in receiving delivery receipts.

We are working with our providers to understand the root cause of the problem.

We’ll keep you updated throughout the incident.

Thank you for your patience.

GOV.UK Notify

Nov 11, 2026 - 13:10 GMT
Update - We’re investigating another text message delivery issue with our providers.

Some text messages may be delayed or fail to deliver and there is a delay in receiving delivery receipts.

We are working with our providers to understand the root cause of the problem.

We’ll keep you updated throughout the incident.

Thank you for your patience.

GOV.UK Notify

Nov 11, 2026 - 13:00 GMT
Investigating - We’re investigating a text message delivery issue with our providers.

Some text messages may be delayed or fail to deliver and there is a delay in receiving delivery receipts.

We are working with our providers to understand the root cause of the problem.

We’ll keep you updated throughout the incident.

Thank you for your patience.

GOV.UK Notify

Nov 11, 2026 - 10:11 GMT

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API Operational
Notify website Operational
Email sending Operational
Email delivery receipts Operational
Text message sending Degraded Performance
Text message delivery receipts Degraded Performance
Text message receiving Operational
Letter sending Operational
Send files by email Operational
Download files sent by email Operational
Callbacks Operational
Operational
Degraded Performance
Partial Outage
Major Outage
Maintenance

Nov 11, 2026

Unresolved incident: Degraded text message delivery receipts and status updates.

Nov 10, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 9, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 8, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 7, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 6, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 5, 2026

Completed - The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Nov 5, 23:00 GMT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Nov 5, 21:00 GMT
Scheduled - GOV.UK Notify will be undergoing scheduled maintenance on 5 November between 21:00 and 23:00.

At some point during this maintenance, Notify will be unavailable intermittently.

During this downtime:

- The Notify web interface - https://www.notifications.service.gov.uk - will be unavailable
- API requests will receive an error
- Text message replies and delivery receipts will be delayed

This is because we will be upgrading our database to patch a security vulnerability.

Nov 4, 17:00 GMT

Nov 4, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 3, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 2, 2026

No incidents reported.

Nov 1, 2026

No incidents reported.

Oct 31, 2026

No incidents reported.

Oct 30, 2026

No incidents reported.

Oct 29, 2026

No incidents reported.

Oct 28, 2026

No incidents reported.