Critical issue – Publishing feature disabled for over 2 weeks with no resolution or communication

Google AI Studio
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I am writing to formally express my deep frustration and concern regarding the ongoing outage of the app publishing feature in Google AI Studio, which has been unavailable since late February 2026.
For more than two weeks, the only information provided has been the message: “Publishing is temporarily disabled while we work on system updates. Check back soon.” — with no explanation, no estimated resolution date, and no official communication from Google on the matter.
This situation is unacceptable for several reasons:
• Complete lack of transparency: no status page update, no blog post, no email notification to affected users.
• Business impact: applications that were actively being developed and deployed are now frozen, directly affecting productivity and users who depend on them.
• Erosion of trust: Google AI Studio was a tool I was genuinely satisfied with and recommending to others. This incident significantly undermines confidence in the platform’s reliability.
I am aware that other users are experiencing the same issue, as evidenced by multiple threads on the official Google AI Developers Forum. A coordinated, official response is long overdue.
I respectfully request:

  1. An official acknowledgment of the issue.
  2. A clear explanation of the root cause.
  3. A realistic estimated resolution timeline.
  4. Proactive communication to affected users going forward.
    Google is a company I have trusted for years, and I believe it can and should do better than this.
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Personalmente continua a farmi pubblicare i nuovi progetti che creo ma se provo ad aggiornare la ripubblicazione, per aggiornare la versione del progetto, non me lo permette con messaggio “Publishing is temporarily disabled while we work on system updates. Check back soon.”.

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Yeah this is absolutely crazy, we created a bootcamp course for google ai studio and claude.

Amazing 8 weeks. and guess what, in the week that users send projects to us google disabled deploy button for over 2 weeks :person_facepalming:

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Como fez isso?
consegues atualizar e publicar?

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You cannot publish a new application. For already published applications, there is a republish button to update the application, but updating the application will result in an API key error and will render it unusable. You will have to revert the cloud version to the old one to use it.

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In my case, the only app that lets me “republish” is one whose project on Google Cloud doesn’t appear in the drop-down menu—and it’s the last one I created after the disastrous update. All the apps that are already published on Google Cloud and do appear in the project drop-down menu show up as temporarily disabled. We’ve been in this situation for almost three weeks now.

Furthermore, recovering the apps created with version 3.0 was a real nightmare. However, I finally managed to recover them by restoring previous versions and letting version 3.1 “fix” them. Now I can work with them using version 3.1 of the programming wizard, which works much better. Unfortunately, this version doesn’t let me “republish” them, which is a significant problem.

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I found the same issue. If you have deployed to Google Run, you can edit the revision and add the API key manually in the UI, which worked for me. For some reason, AI Studio isn’t passing the API key through to Google Cloud.

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I’ve given up on direct publishing to Google Cloud. Now I sync my apps with GitHub and deploy them from Netlify using that same GitHub repository. It works perfectly.

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Same issue here I cant publish a platform that has an API key or uses gemini capabilities. But I can publish a website that has no api key, can someone help me on this :slight_smile: