On October 7, 2026 at 05:31 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting ChatGPT with a major impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 6h 21m 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 We are investigating the issue. Version 26.1002.51308 is affected
- Identified we have identified the issue, working on rolling back to the previous version.
- Identified We have identified the issue. We have released an updated app version for Linux and macOS. We are actively working to roll out the fix for Windows.
- Identified We are actively working on a fixed app version for Windows.
- Resolved We have released an updated app version with the fix for Linux, macOS and Windows. Affected users should update to the latest version.
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
This incident has been added to the permanent outage archive. For the current live status, see Is ChatGPT down right now? — the status indicator updates automatically. For the methodology behind these incident records, see our monitoring methodology page.
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