OpenAI's own advice during its October 9 Android outage: use ChatGPT on the web

If you opened ChatGPT on an Android phone on the evening of October 9 and got "This content is unavailable in this version of the app" where an answer should have been, the fault was OpenAI's. Its suggested workaround was to stop using the app: "Users can use ChatGPT on the web while we work to restore the experience for older app versions." OpenAI's own card for its plugin management documentation, the admin area the second incident affected. Image: OpenAI That wording comes from the first update on the incident, which OpenAI logged as major impact. OpenAI's status page records it as opening at 21:00:39Z on October 9 and closing at 00:26:44Z on October 10 with "All impacted services have now fully recovered", a run of three hours and 26…