PLEASE REMOVE THE PHONE NUMBER REQUIRMENT OR THE LIMIT

Resolved 💬 15 comments Opened May 3, 2026 by ZfpsGT1030 Closed May 3, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

0.128.0

What subscription do you have?

plus

What platform is your computer?

windows

What issue are you seeing?

I HAVE 3 PLUS ACCOUNTS BECAUSE CODEX IS AMAZING BUT NOW IT REQUIRES A PHONE NUMBER AND I CANT USE MY 2 OTHER ACCOUNTS BECAUSE IT HAS A LIMIT TO THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF PHONE NUMBERS

What steps can reproduce the bug?

USING 3 ACCOUNTS

What is the expected behavior?

<img width="852" height="824" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/abc9fc8c-c01a-445a-9de8-f2539fb02813" />

Additional information

PLEASE STOP I LOVE CODEX IT EXCELLS IN CODING

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15 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 2 months ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

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AIast0r · 2 months ago

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etraut-openai contributor · 2 months ago

Phone number verification was added to prevent fraudulent use and violations of OpenAI's Terms of Use for our services. You should not be using multiple accounts to circumvent the rate limits of your subscription plan. If you need more usage than the Plus plan provides, you have the option of purchasing additional credits for your account or updating to the recently-announced $100/mo Pro plan.

Sistem-Pack · 2 months ago
Phone number verification was added to prevent fraudulent use and violations of OpenAI's Terms of Use for our services. You should not be using multiple accounts to circumvent the rate limits of your subscription plan. If you need more usage than the Plus plan provides, you have the option of purchasing additional credits for your account or updating to the recently-announced $100/mo Pro plan.

Well, maybe you could fix the authorization so I can receive an SMS code, and we'll be able to continue using Codex normally. The problem isn't abuse, but that I'm not receiving an SMS code. How can we pay you and trust you if your product isn't working properly? I'd rather go and pay Antropic, because everything works fine there.

fly78lv · 2 months ago
为防止欺诈使用和违反OpenAI服务条款,增加了电话号码验证功能。你不应该用多个账户绕过订阅套餐的费率限制。如果你需要比Plus计划更多的使用量,你可以选择购买额外的账户积分,或者升级到最近宣布的每月100美元Pro计划。

But I have been using my account for a long time, why is the +86 Chinese phone number not supported?

fly78lv · 2 months ago
> 为防止欺诈使用和违反OpenAI服务条款,增加了电话号码验证功能。你不应该用多个账户绕过订阅套餐的费率限制。如果你需要比Plus计划更多的使用量,你可以选择购买额外的账户积分,或者升级到最近宣布的每月100美元Pro计划。 But I have been using my account for a long time, why is the +86 Chinese phone number not supported?

I only subscribed to one Plus account, but now I can't use it? What are you doing? I just did codex logout and then codex login, I was using codex last night, and now it doesn't work today?

Sistem-Pack · 2 months ago

What is it OpenAI?

> > 为防止欺诈使用和违反OpenAI服务条款,增加了电话号码验证功能。你不应该用多个账户绕过订阅套餐的费率限制。如果你需要比Plus计划更多的使用量,你可以选择购买额外的Вы можете использовать 100 фунтов для Pro, чтобы получить больше информации. > > > Но я пользуюсь своим аккаунтом уже давно, почему же китайский номер телефона с кодом +86 не поддерживается? У меня только одна подписка Plus, но теперь я не могу ею пользоваться? Что вы делаете? Я просто вышел из системы Codex, а затем снова вошел в нее. Я пользовался Codex вчера вечером, а сегодня он не работает?
dexterdeng · 2 months ago
Phone number verification was added to prevent fraudulent use and violations of OpenAI's Terms of Use for our services. You should not be using multiple accounts to circumvent the rate limits of your subscription plan. If you need more usage than the Plus plan provides, you have the option of purchasing additional credits for your account or updating to the recently-announced $100/mo Pro plan.

+86 phone numbers are not allowed, correct?
You guys will lose a huge number of users.

JFFby · 2 months ago
Phone number verification was added to prevent fraudulent use and violations of OpenAI's Terms of Use for our services. You should not be using multiple accounts to circumvent the rate limits of your subscription plan. If you need more usage than the Plus plan provides, you have the option of purchasing additional credits for your account or updating to the recently-announced $100/mo Pro plan.

What if I already have several $100/mo Pro plans?

Mixlort · 2 months ago

This account protection is horrible, please remove it

Zarhult · 2 months ago

I started a free trial of Plus to give Codex a chance and then I'm locked out of actually using it just because I once attached my phone number to a separate university account. Guess I will stick with Claude

hungd19 · 1 month ago

I used codex 5.5 but I think it's claude sonet 4.5

talliesoftwares · 1 month ago

Okay fck this, will continue with my anthropic sub been using it for months with no issue.

captainbeo · 1 month ago

F&ck Codex for this. They're just after money at this point after onboarding a lot of users. Why do I have to connect my phone to an account AND do a sms/whatsapp verification every damn time that I log in? I'm moving back to Deepseek.

trancified · 1 month ago

Agreed. Screw OpenAI. use anything except them. Ollama is better.