Unread status removed after app restart

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Mar 12, 2026 by johan456789 Closed Jun 2, 2026
💡 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)?

Version 26.309.31024 (962)

What subscription do you have?

Plus

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 24.6.0 arm64 arm

What issue are you seeing?

All threads that are unread are mark as read after restarting the app.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  1. mark a thread unread
  2. restart the app
  3. the thread is no longer unread

What is the expected behavior?

  1. the thread is still unread

Additional information

This breaks workflows and makes me hold off app updates.

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4 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 5 months ago

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

  • #13115

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CanRau · 4 months ago

Yes this is pretty annoying because I lose track of which threads to look at, especially with all the updates.

Please persist unread state until actually opened, maybe even with a short delay of a couple seconds or something.

johan456789 · 2 months ago

this is fixed in the latest version, at least for mac.

etraut-openai contributor · 2 months ago

Yes, unread status is now persisted across app restarts.