On July 22, 2026 at 07:32 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting File Uploads and Image Generation with a minor impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 7h 7m 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
All facts below are taken from OpenAI's official incident record. Fields OpenAI did not publish are shown as “Not provided.”
Timeline
Official update history from OpenAI's status page.
- Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- Identified We have identified that users are experiencing elevated errors for the impacted services.nnWe are working on implementing a mitigation.
- Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered.
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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