Model selector broken on new chat
Open 💬 4 comments Opened Apr 23, 2026 by lukemorales
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor)
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What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
26.422.20832 (2025)
What subscription do you have?
Codex Pro
What platform is your computer?
Darwin 25.4.0 arm64 arm
What issue are you seeing?
I cannot change the model or reasoning for a new chat (regardless if it's a project chat, or the new chat feature), the selector does not change
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Press the button to start a new chat, and click to select a new model or change the reasoning
What is the expected behavior?
That the model or reasoning I pick is applied to the chat
Additional information
Here's a video of what's happening:
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d1f036a5-f39a-479b-b7fb-d1979a9abb54
4 Comments
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Same issue in VSCode Codex extension, how come it is unfixed for so long? Always have to waste some tokens just to send a message to switch to a better model...
It is still broken btw! How a trillion dollar company can produce such startupish slop? Your devs have access to best models in the world and this is their end product.... very underwhelming.
Issue still occurs!