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title: "Can an OpenAI Realtime session recover cleanly after a mobile network switch?"  
description: "Can an OpenAI Realtime session recover cleanly after a mobile network switch?"  
author: "Zeynep Kiliç"  
published: 2026-10-21  
updated: 2026-10-21  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162715/can-an-openai-realtime-session-recover-cleanly-after-a-mobile-network-switch  
category: "Realtime API"  
tags: ["OpenAI", "Realtime API", "mobile development", "Voice AI"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Can an OpenAI Realtime session recover cleanly after a mobile network switch?

I’m building a mobile voice app with the OpenAI Realtime API and trying to understand what happens when a user moves from Wi-Fi to cellular. The connection may drop briefly, but I’d like the conversation to continue without starting over or replaying audio the user already sent.

Has anyone handled this kind of **mobile network switch** in a production app? I’m especially curious about what session state can be resumed, how you avoid duplicate responses after reconnecting, and whether the app should treat a dropped connection as a new conversation. Practical experience with **Realtime session recovery** would be helpful.


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Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/162715/can-an-openai-realtime-session-recover-cleanly-after-a-mobile-network-switch

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