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)
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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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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.
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?
What is it OpenAI?
+86 phone numbers are not allowed, correct?
You guys will lose a huge number of users.
What if I already have several $100/mo Pro plans?
This account protection is horrible, please remove it
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
I used codex 5.5 but I think it's claude sonet 4.5
Okay fck this, will continue with my anthropic sub been using it for months with no issue.
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.
Agreed. Screw OpenAI. use anything except them. Ollama is better.