Elevated errors affecting Work Mode in ChatGPT

Resolved Minor impact

On September 14, 2026 at 15:58 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting ChatGPT with a minor impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 11h 12m 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.”

Started
Resolved
Duration
11h 12m
Affected service
ChatGPT
Severity
Minor
Current state
Resolved

Timeline

Official update history from OpenAI's status page.

  1. Monitoring Earlier today, some ChatGPT Plus users using Work Mode experienced errors starting or resuming tasks, or had limited access to workspace tools and files. We have applied a mitigation and service has recovered. We are monitoring the results.
  2. Monitoring We have applied additional mitigations for Work Mode. We are monitoring to confirm that workspace tools and files are functioning normally for ChatGPT Plus users.
  3. 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.