OpenAI experienced a minor incident on June 18, 2026 affecting Login and ChatGPT Atlas and 1 more component, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jun 18, 2026, 03:26 AM UTC
Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Affected components GPTs (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance)
- monitoring Jun 18, 2026, 03:43 AM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery. Affected components GPTs (Degraded performance) Deep Research (Degraded performance) ChatGPT Atlas (Degraded performance) Login (Degraded performance) File uploads (Degraded performance) Search (Degraded performance) Image Generation (Degraded performance) Agent (Degraded performance) Connectors/Apps (Degraded performance) Voice mode (Degraded performance) Conversations (Degraded performance) Compliance API (Degraded performance)
- resolved Jun 18, 2026, 03:55 AM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered. Affected components Search (Operational) GPTs (Operational) Connectors/Apps (Operational) ChatGPT Atlas (Operational) Login (Operational) File uploads (Operational) Voice mode (Operational) Conversations (Operational) Compliance API (Operational) Image Generation (Operational) Agent (Operational) Deep Research (Operational)