OpenAI incident
ChatGPT free users are seeing errors when having conversations
OpenAI experienced a minor incident on April 22, 2026 affecting Conversations, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Conversations
Update timeline
- investigating Apr 22, 2026, 12:56 AM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services.
- investigating Apr 22, 2026, 01:00 AM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components Conversations (Partial outage)
- monitoring Apr 22, 2026, 02:38 AM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components Conversations (Partial outage)
- resolved Apr 22, 2026, 03:35 AM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Conversations (Operational)