OpenAI outage, 3 November 2026
File upload errors in ChatGPT
- Started
- Status
- Ongoing: Monitoring
- Impact
- Minor
Is this still happening?
Yes. OpenAI still lists it as monitoring; last update 3 Nov 2026, 02:51 UTC.
Right now: OpenAI reports degraded performance on some systems. (as of 3 Nov, 03:32 UTC) Live OpenAI status
Last update from OpenAI
We’ve applied a mitigation and are monitoring the affected services to confirm recovery.
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