By https://www.techradar.com/author/mark-wilson
Publication Date: 2026-06-10 11:47:00
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Issues across desktop and mobile
We’re seeing those pesky ‘error 1076’ and ‘error 1099’ messages on Gemini across both its web and mobile versions, so this doesn’t appear to platform-specific.
This seems to be the case for most people who are affected — on Downdetector, 57% of the reports in the US are for the app, while 36% are from people having issues on the web.
Many have reported trying different phones and accounts with no success, so it seems the only solution (for now) is to immediately re-enter your prompt (see below).
A temporary workaround
While many on the TechRadar team are getting different “something went wrong” error messages, there does seem to be one temporary solution to the problems.
Immediately typing the same query into the Gemini chat box seems to get it to work. That’s not something we’ll want to be doing all day, but it is a short-term workaround while…
