Codex Desktop keeps logging me out and require re-login

Open 💬 7 comments Opened Aug 18, 2026 by XZ-X

💡 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)?

26.814.41407

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Pro

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 25.5.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

The Codex Desktop app keeps logging me out every ~1 mins. I use ChatGPT in browser to login for >5 times and the issue persists.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

What is the expected behavior?

_No response_

Additional information

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7 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 9 days ago

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

#39162

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ashleyEVE · 8 days ago

Also experienced

Linux Mint 22.3 (Zena) (Noble Ubuntu)

Pro 5x

I had an in app update yesterday.
As soon as I did the update the app reloaded fine. But when I navigated in the chatgpt side to any of my in progress chats it sent the app into a logout state and forced a relog through
"https://chatgpt.com/codex/open-app?source=login&app_brand=chatgpt"

I logged in and the app unlocked as expected. But then the process repeated every time I tried to go to a chat. Starting a brand new chat would allow the prompt to be sent. Confirmed via other ways to access the chat system.

Went through a couple recovery processes

Closed the app entirely and killed all child processes. Relaunched, no change.

Repeated complete app shutdown. Moved the .config/codex and .cache/codex folders to force refresh and clearly of cached keys and tokens. No change.

I am using 26.810.52044 but that is only becauuse that is the currently working version. I didn't catch the version number of the actual update. I had access to it through the update app icon in the bottom left of the desktop app yesterday. The recovery that worked. I had my original installer .deb still. I competely removed it via dpkg and then did a reinstall after cleaning the processes out and it's working again.

raimand13 · 6 days ago

I have the same problem with the Version 26.818.21641 on Windows 11.
It started today. Since morning I did login many times but it didn't work.
I select any conversation and Codex suddenly jumps to login page.

geckoHex · 4 days ago

I'm noticing the same issue on 26.818.41705 on my M5 Pro trying to sign-in with Google Chrome. Clicking a previous thread, or the agent finishing a task seems to trigger the sign-out. Re-installing didn't work. However I tried changing my default browser to Safari so Codex makes me login through there and it seems to be working normal again without the login loop bug.

phadaviBCEFF · 3 days ago

have the same problem starting today

HanMaXiao · 1 day ago

I also encountered this problem, and then copied the latest authion.json to my friend, but it could only last for a short time, and after a period of time, it would automatically exit the session when I entered it

JingerWu · 9 hours ago

I am seeing a very similar authentication loop on Linux.

App version: 26.820.71523
Platform: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS, x86_64, X11, kernel 6.8.0-138-generic

Browser authentication succeeds, and the app briefly enters the main interface before returning to the login screen. The desktop process remains running.

I'm also logged out, when I click any existing session.

Additional checks:

MFA was already enabled.
codex login status reports Logged in using ChatGPT.
~/.codex/auth.json is created successfully.
The CLI login callback reports has_error=false state_valid=true.
No managed login/workspace configuration was found.
No new desktop/Codex session appears under Active sessions during the login attempt.