On July 12, 2026 at 09:49 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting ChatGPT, iOS, and Login with a minor impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 5h 38m 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 an issue where some users may encounter 403 errors when loading or using ChatGPT conversations on iOS. We will provide updates as we learn more.
- Investigating We are continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting some users on iOS. Some users may be unable to load or use conversations.
- Investigating We are continuing to investigate elevated errors affecting conversations, sign-ups, and sign-ins for some users on iOS and macOS.
- Identified We have identified the issue causing elevated conversation, sign-up, and sign-in errors for some users on iOS and macOS. We are working to implement a mitigation.
- Identified We have implemented a mitigation that restored conversation access for affected users on iOS and macOS. We are continuing to work on mitigating sign-up and sign-in errors.
- Identified We have restored sign-in access for affected users. We are continuing to work on mitigating account creation and password update errors on iOS and macOS.
- Monitoring A mitigation has been applied, and the affected services have recovered. We are monitoring the results.
- 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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