On September 8, 2026 at 14:39 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting File Uploads with a minor impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 4h 36m 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 Some file uploads are failing to process. Successful uploads may take longer than usual to become available. We’re investigating and will share another update as we learn more.
- Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- Investigating We’re continuing to investigate file-upload processing failures and delays in ChatGPT. Some files may appear uploaded but remain unavailable while processing; other uploads may fail. We have not confirmed recovery and will share another update as we learn more.
- Identified We have identified the issue causing file-upload processing failures and delays in ChatGPT. Some files may remain unavailable while processing, and some uploads may fail.
- 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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