Having spam and filtering issues in Gmail? You're not alone – and Google is rolling out a fix

• A variety of Gmail bugs have been acknowledged by Google
• They cover automatic filtering, spam, and delivery delays
• The Gmail app should now be getting back to normal for users

You may well have noticed issues with the automatic filters and spam scanning in your Gmail inbox over the weekend: these are issues that Google has officially acknowledged, and a fix should now be making its way out to users.

As per the Google Workspace Status Dashboard (via Engadget), numerous issues affected users of Google's email app across the course of Saturday. These issues included "misclassification of emails" via Gmail's built-in automatic filtering.

That filtering should put less important emails (such as promotions and social media updates) into separate tabs away from your main inbox. It's been in place for years, and is a clever feature – when it works – that you can also tweak manually by dragging ...