On July 21, 2026 at 19:33 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting Image Generation and OpenAI API with a major impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 2h 46m and the incident has been fully resolved. IsChatGPTDown.chat mirrors this incident from OpenAI's official record; see the official link below for authoritative details.
Incident Facts
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Timeline
Official update history from OpenAI's status page.
- Investigating We are investigating elevated error rates affecting image generation requests via the API. We are working to restore normal service.
- Monitoring We have applied mitigations and are seeing error rates return to normal levels. We are monitoring the recovery.
- Resolved Image generation functionality has fully recovered, and error rates have returned to normal levels.
Related troubleshooting
The affected services are listed above from OpenAI's official record. If you run into a similar problem, the guides below help you check whether it is a current outage or an issue limited to your setup.
Current ChatGPT Status
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