Computer use errors in the ChatGPT desktop app

Resolved Minor impact

On August 6, 2026 at 23:52 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting ChatGPT with a minor impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 38 minutes 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
38 minutes
Affected service
ChatGPT
Severity
Minor
Current state
Resolved

Timeline

Official update history from OpenAI's status page.

  1. Identified We have identified that some users may be experiencing issues with computer use in the latest ChatGPT desktop app update.nnWe are working on implementing a mitigation.
  2. 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.