Do not jump to bottom when sending follow-up while scrolled up in a thread

Resolved 💬 3 comments Opened Mar 6, 2026 by Eriiiick Closed Apr 12, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

Summary

Codex Desktop on macOS jumps to the bottom of the current thread when I send a follow-up message while I am scrolled up reading older content. This makes it easy to lose my place in long conversations.

Environment

  • Codex App version: 26.305.950 (build 863)
  • Platform: macOS 15.7.3
  • Architecture: Apple Silicon / arm64

Steps to reproduce

  1. Open an existing thread with enough content to scroll.
  2. Scroll up into older parts of the conversation and start reading.
  3. Type a follow-up prompt in the composer.
  4. Send the follow-up.

Actual behavior

The view jumps to the bottom of the thread, so the previous reading position is lost.

Expected behavior

One of these would be much better:

  • Preserve the current scroll position after sending the follow-up.
  • If auto-jump is intentional, provide a setting to control it.
  • Offer a "return to my previous spot" affordance after the new message is sent.

Why this is disruptive

In long threads, I often want to keep reading earlier output while sending a short follow-up. The current behavior interrupts that flow and forces me to manually find my place again.

Notes

  • I could not find a documented config.toml setting for this behavior.
  • I also could not find a clearly matching open GitHub issue for this exact follow-up-scroll case in the desktop app.

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3 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 5 months ago

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

  • #13472

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etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

The current behavior is by design. It's pretty typical for chat interfaces of any type to auto-scroll to the bottom when adding new content, and this is probably what most users expect.

I'll change this from a bug report to a feature request, and we can see if it gets upvotes.

dagelf · 5 months ago

Its not a Codex feature, its a terminal feature. Some terminals allow you to turn of "scroll on input" and "scroll on output"