If you haven’t noticed it already, Gmail SMS is down once again. As you might already know Gmail SMS was pulled due to technical issues after going live once in October. While the official post said SMS would be back in about two weeks it turned out to be a lot longer wait and wasn’t officially re-released until early December. Since then Gmail SMS has been a pretty stable feature but it doesn’t seem like the Gmail team agrees.

According to a Google Spokesperson, Gmail SMS was disabled because it was once again causing issues for people. There is no set timeline as to when Gmail SMS will be back up and running so until then we are going to have to sit tight and wait it out. Keep in mind, Gmail SMS is a labs feature and the Gmail team has made it pretty clear that this could happen. Let’s just hope for the users who were dependant upon Gmail SMS on a regular basis that it gets back up and running.

One particular interesting thing to note is that SMS messages being sent from a mobile phone can still be retrieved in your …

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