ChatGPT change history

ChatGPT reported major widespread feature degradation, including login and signup issues in its iOS/Android apps, starting 2026-10-15 14:30 UTC and lasting 4 h 26 min. A mitigation was applied, and all impacted services had fully recovered by 2026-10-15 18:56 UTC; no cause was stated.

ChatGPT reported a major outage affecting some workspace administrators’ ability to view and manage plugin availability and settings; some users also saw plugins as unavailable. It started at 2026-10-09 21:48 UTC and was resolved at 2026-10-09 23:26 UTC, lasting 1 h 38 min. All impacted services fully recovered; no cause or specific fix was stated.

ChatGPT reported a major Android outage where some content displayed “This content is unavailable in this version of the app,” starting 2026-10-09 21:00 UTC and lasting 3 h 26 min. A fix rolled out gradually in the latest Android version, with web access offered as a workaround; all impacted services recovered by 2026-10-10 00:26 UTC.

A major outage prevented creation of new ChatGPT Work threads in desktop app version 26.1002.51308, starting 2026-10-07 05:31 UTC and resolving 2026-10-07 11:53 UTC after 6 h 21 min. Fixed versions were released for Linux, macOS and Windows; affected users should update to the latest version.

ChatGPT reported a major outage affecting login, signup, and ads from 2026-10-01 18:46 UTC to 2026-10-01 19:39 UTC, lasting 53 min. A mitigation was applied at 19:26 UTC, and all impacted services fully recovered by resolution.

Codex experienced a critical outage with elevated errors from 2026-09-25 22:58 UTC to 2026-09-25 23:54 UTC, lasting 55 min. Login via API key was offered as a workaround; the vendor applied a mitigation and reported full recovery.

ChatGPT Work mode experienced elevated errors, with some users unable to start or run Work tasks. The vendor rated the impact major; the incident began at 2026-09-17 19:03 UTC and lasted 1 h 21 min, with full recovery reported at 2026-09-17 20:24 UTC after mitigation work.

ChatGPT reported a major incident affecting API image generation and editing requests using gpt-image-2.5-flare, with elevated errors starting at 2026-09-15 23:50 UTC and lasting 40 min. A mitigation was applied at 23:58 UTC, and all impacted services fully recovered by 2026-09-16 00:30 UTC.

ChatGPT Work Mode experienced high error rates in a major-impact incident starting at 2026-09-03 00:04 UTC. It lasted 6 min and was resolved at 2026-09-03 00:10 UTC, when all impacted services had fully recovered.

ChatGPT Work had a major incident with elevated errors and latency, preventing users across multiple subscription plans from starting or continuing tasks; Plus users were particularly impacted, with Work mode unavailable. It started at 2026-08-31 15:04 UTC and resolved at 2026-08-31 20:28 UTC, lasting 5 h 23 min. A mitigation was applied, and services fully recovered.

A major outage affected logins and account creation for ChatGPT and the API Platform, plus API Platform organization management and dashboard access; users already signed in may still have been able to use ChatGPT. It started at 2026-07-21 18:36 UTC and was resolved at 2026-07-21 19:00 UTC (23 min), with all affected API Platform functionality fully recovered.

API image generation requests experienced elevated error rates in a major-impact incident from 2026-07-21 18:10 UTC to 2026-07-21 22:19 UTC, lasting 4 h 9 min. OpenAI applied mitigations and confirmed full recovery, with error rates back to normal.

ChatGPT image generation was unavailable with elevated errors in an incident rated major, starting 2026-07-21 10:36 UTC and lasting 6 days 8 h. OpenAI reported applying a mitigation and monitoring recovery; the final resolution at 2026-07-27 19:04 UTC stated that all impacted services had fully recovered.

ChatGPT reported a major incident affecting conversation loading and continuation, Voice, and Work Mode, starting 2026-07-19 14:49 UTC and lasting 2 h 15 min. Mitigation was applied, and all impacted services were fully recovered by 2026-07-19 17:05 UTC.