By 3:15 p.m., more than 10,000 users had logged issues, and the number continued to rise.
OpenAI’s status page lists the ChatGPT outage as affecting all core functions at once. Conversations, search, image generation, Codex, Atlas and related tools are all flagged as impaired. The notice confirms a broad incident rather than a limited regional or feature-specific fault. We received the following error when attempting to generate images, “Hmm…something seems to have gone wrong.”
ChatGPT Global Outage
The outage follows a busy period for OpenAI products. Yesterday, OpenAI released the Codex app for Mac, which quickly drew strong interest. CEO Sam Altman said it achieved over 200,000 day one downloads. That rapid uptake adds extra attention to Codex during the outage.
On the hardware and tools side, Apple introduced an Xcode update earlier today. The new version adds agentic coding support for both Codex and Claude. These back-to-back launches are unlikely to be the direct cause of the ChatGPT outage, according to early assessments.
However, higher than expected Codex adoption could still be increasing pressure on shared systems. OpenAI has not yet given a full technical explanation for the ChatGPT outage. The organisation has indicated that more details will follow as engineers continue investigating the disruption.
The key facts remain that ChatGPT is experiencing a large outage, affecting conversation, search and creative tools. Recent Codex growth and Apple’s Xcode support changes frame the timing, but no confirmed root cause has been shared. Users must currently wait for OpenAI’s next status update.