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Mobile users unable to see Work Mode and the Model Picker

Degraded Lasted 24m · started · OpenAI's page

Level
confirmed
Worst impact
Degraded
Components
Sites, Login, File uploads, Voice mode, Search, Conversations, Compliance API, Image Generation, GPTs, Agent, Deep Research, Connectors/Apps, Codex in ChatGPT Desktop, ChatGPT Work
Down Index
26of 100

What to do

  • Check whether you use OpenAI Sites, Login, File uploads, Voice mode and 10 more. Check your stack

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  • Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 24m it lasted.

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Updates from OpenAI 3

  1. investigating

    We have identified that mobile users are not able to see work mode or the model picker when using ChatGPT. We are working on implementing a mitigation.

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  2. monitoring

    We have applied the mitigation and are monitoring the recovery.

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  3. resolved

    All impacted services have now fully recovered.

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Corrections

None so far.

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Questions about DWN-c78ec2e109

Is OpenAI still down?

No, this incident was resolved 2026-09-23 23:49 UTC. For OpenAI's live state, see https://down.guide/openai.

How long did it last?

24m, from 2026-09-23 23:25 UTC to 2026-09-23 23:49 UTC, by the times OpenAI posted.

What was affected?

OpenAI named Sites, Login, File uploads, Voice mode and 10 more.

What caused it?

OpenAI hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.

Where does this come from?

OpenAI's official status page, https://status.openai.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.