On October 22, 2026 at 19:36 UTC, OpenAI reported an incident affecting OpenAI Services with a minor impact, per its official status page. The disruption lasted 4h 31m 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.
- Identified We have identified that new ad accounts are failing to assign their creator admin. We are investigating the issue.
- Identified We have identified the issue and are working to implement the mitigation.
- Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered.
Related troubleshooting
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Current ChatGPT Status
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