OpenAI resolves widespread ChatGPT mobile app degradation

By The Downtime · Oct 15, 2026 · 10:30 PM

OpenAI has resolved a major outage affecting its ChatGPT mobile applications. The incident impacted logins and signups across ChatGPT's iOS and Android apps.

OpenAI operates ChatGPT, a widely-used AI chatbot service accessed by millions of users globally for various tasks including research, writing, and coding assistance.

The company began investigating the widespread feature degradation on Saturday, initially identifying issues with logins and signups in the mobile apps. OpenAI subsequently applied a mitigation and moved to a monitoring phase as services began recovering. All impacted services have now fully recovered.

The incident is now resolved.

🕒 Live updates (4)

resolved Oct 15, 6:56 PM

All impacted services have now fully recovered.

monitoring Oct 15, 5:13 PM

We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

investigating Oct 15, 4:35 PM

We are investigating widespread feature degradation, including issues affecting logins and signups in the ChatGPT iOS/Android apps. We will provide updates as we learn more.

investigating Oct 15, 4:29 PM

We are investigating an issue affecting logins and signups across all ChatGPT mobile applications. We will provide updates as we learn more.

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