: OpenAI ChatGPT Conversations outage degrades prompts and access
OpenAI's ChatGPT Conversations experienced a brief outage with elevated error rates, impacting user access and responsiveness for ChatGPT features. Users reported login failures, prompts not returning results, and missing chat history across regions. The outage began at and lasted about 31 minutes, with service returning to normal by .
Status communications showed a rapid response: OpenAI updated its status page to indicate a degraded experience at and later confirmed restoration at . StatusGator’s Early Warning Signal had flagged the issue earlier at , with the alert ending at as users continued to report effects before official acknowledgment. The incident involved the ChatGPT / Conversations component and saw a large volume of user reports indicating widespread impact, with activity appearing global rather than regional.