### **Summary:**
Some customers were unable to send SMS on Google Voice.
### **Description:**
We have experienced an issue with Google Voice beginning on Monday, 2025-02-17 at 07:06 US/Pacific.
Our engineering team has applied the fix which has successfully mitigated the issue.
We apologize to all who were affected by the disruption.
### **Diagnosis:**
Impacted customers may have received an error message stating ‘The message violates our Acceptable Use Policy’.
The issue has impacted only consumer users and not Google Workspace users.
### **Workaround:**
Customers may retry to send the SMS which might have resolved the issue. Sending SMS messages from Android or iOS devices appeared to be functioning correctly.
Resolved
Minor
February 17, 2025 - Started 2 months ago
- Lasted 11 minutes
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Outage Details
### **Summary:**
Some customers were unable to send SMS on Google Voice.
### **Description:**
We have experienced an issue with Google Voice beginning on Monday, 2025-02-17 at 07:06 US/Pacific.
Our engineering team has applied the fix which has successfully mitigated the issue.
We apologize to all who were affected by the disruption.
### **Diagnosis:**
Impacted customers may have received an error message stating ‘The message violates our Acceptable Use Policy’.
The issue has impacted only consumer users and not Google Workspace users.
### **Workaround:**
Customers may retry to send the SMS which might have resolved the issue. Sending SMS messages from Android or iOS devices appeared to be functioning correctly.
Components affected
Google Voice
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