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🟡 OpenAI is 'investigating' why ChatGPT, Codex, and the API platform decided to ghost half their features simultaneously. Login, uploads, search, image generation, GPTs, Atlas, voice mode—basically everything except the status page works fine. Turns out 'partial outage' is corporate for 'we're not sure what's still alive.'. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Apr 20, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Users unable to load ChatGPT, Codex and API Platform

// Status page says

Status: Investigating We are investigating the issue for the listed services. Impacted users are currently unable to access ChatGPT, Codex and API Platform. Affected components Login (Partial outage) File uploads (Partial outage) Search (Partial outage) Image Generation (Partial outage) GPTs (Partial outage) ChatGPT Atlas (Partial outage) App (Partial outage) Voice mode

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.openai.com//incidents/01KPNN2V2SMP3TAN3MCJK87W50

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