Outage recap · OpenAI

ChatGPT outage — June 5, 2026

On June 5, 2026, ChatGPT had 4 reported incidents on OpenAI's official status page. Below is what was reported — impact, timing, and the AI services the same upstream outage could affect.

Some users may experience issues accessing OpenAI accounts

none
Started
Jun 5, 9:26 AM EDT
Resolved
Jun 5, 12:09 PM EDT
Duration
2h 43m

As reported by OpenAI's official status page (status: resolved). We report the vendor's own words, never an inferred cause.

Elevated error rates for Free users in conversations

minor
Started
Jun 5, 10:11 AM EDT
Resolved
Jun 5, 11:37 AM EDT
Duration
1h 26m

As reported by OpenAI's official status page (status: resolved). We report the vendor's own words, never an inferred cause.

Users unable to sign in using Microsoft personal accounts

minor
Started
Jun 5, 10:48 AM EDT
Resolved
Jun 5, 11:58 AM EDT
Duration
1h 10m

As reported by OpenAI's official status page (status: resolved). We report the vendor's own words, never an inferred cause.

Voice mode availability impacted

minor
Started
Jun 5, 1:59 PM EDT
Resolved
Jun 5, 3:04 PM EDT
Duration
1h 5m

As reported by OpenAI's official status page (status: resolved). We report the vendor's own words, never an inferred cause.

The AI cascade

ChatGPT depends on OpenAI. When that upstream has an incident, it doesn't hit ChatGPT alone — these AI tools share the dependency and can degrade at the same time:

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