SMS Delivery Delays to Google Voice Network in United States of America via a Subset of Short Codes

Incident Report for Twilio

Resolved

We are no longer experiencing SMS delivery delays when sending messages to Google Voice in the United States of America via a subset of short codes. This incident has been resolved.
Posted Jan 30, 2026 - 19:50 PST

Update

We are still observing recovery in SMS delivery delays when sending messages to Google Voice in the United States of America via a subset of short codes. We will continue monitoring the service to ensure a full recovery. We will provide another update in 4 hours or as soon as more information becomes available.
Posted Jan 30, 2026 - 15:58 PST

Monitoring

We are observing recovery in SMS delivery delays when sending messages to Google Voice in the United States of America via a subset of short codes. We will continue monitoring the service to ensure a full recovery. We will provide another update in 2 hours or as soon as more information becomes available.
Posted Jan 30, 2026 - 13:56 PST

Update

We are experiencing SMS delivery delays when sending messages to Google Voice in the United States of America via a subset of short codes. Our engineers are working with our carrier partner to resolve the issue. We will provide another update in 1 hour or as soon as more information becomes available.
Posted Jan 30, 2026 - 12:56 PST

Investigating

Our monitoring systems have detected a potential issue with SMS delivery delays when sending from a subset of short codes to Google Voice in the United States of America. Our engineering team has been alerted and is actively investigating. We will update as soon as we have more information.
Posted Jan 30, 2026 - 12:49 PST
This incident affected: CARRIER NETWORK (SMS Short Code, North America).