OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode
OpenAI has introduced Lockdown Mode, an advanced security setting aimed at reducing data exfiltration risks from prompt injection attacks. This mode limits access to web and external services, affecting various features of OpenAI products. It is available for all account types and is particularly designed for users handling sensitive data.
- ▪Lockdown Mode is rolling out to eligible personal accounts, including Free, Go, Plus, and Pro accounts.
- ▪The mode limits many tools and capabilities in OpenAI products to enhance security against data exfiltration.
- ▪Certain features like live web browsing, deep research, and agent mode are disabled in Lockdown Mode.
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| Original publisher | OpenAI Help Center |
| Canonical URL | https://help.openai.com/en/articles/20001061-lockdown-mode |
| Publication time | Sat, 06 Jun 2026 03:36:15 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-06T03:59:39.723Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-06T03:59:41.051Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | tGU9trqlZ4qb |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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Lockdown ModeLearn how Lockdown Mode limits access to the web and external services to help reduce data exfiltration risk from prompt injection attacks.Updated: yesterdayLockdown Mode is rolling out to eligible personal accounts, including Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and self-serve ChatGPT Business accounts. If you do not see Lockdown Mode in your settings, it may not be available for your account yet.OverviewLockdown Mode is an optional advanced security setting that limits many tools and capabilities in OpenAI products that can connect to the web or external services.
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