OpenAI experienced a minor incident on March 12, 2026, lasting —. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Update timeline
- identified Mar 10, 2026, 11:10 PM UTC
Status: Identified We have identified that users are experiencing issues with downloading files from ChatGPT
- identified Mar 11, 2026, 07:22 AM UTC
Status: Identified We are still implementing the mitigation.
- identified Mar 11, 2026, 04:32 PM UTC
Status: Identified Issue has been identified and mitigation is being deployed.
- monitoring Mar 11, 2026, 10:05 PM UTC
Status: Monitoring We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.
- resolved Mar 12, 2026, 10:15 PM UTC
Status: Resolved All impacted services have now fully recovered.