Outage recap · OpenAI

ChatGPT outage — June 17, 2026

On June 17, 2026, ChatGPT had 2 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.

Errors with conversations on Android and iOS devices

major
Started
Jun 17, 1:20 PM EDT
Resolved
Jun 17, 2:23 PM EDT
Duration
1h 3m

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

ChatGPT failing to load or save

minor
Started
Jun 17, 11:26 PM EDT
Resolved
Jun 17, 11:55 PM EDT
Duration
28 min

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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