Restore previous chat on restart/update
Open 💬 7 comments Opened May 27, 2026 by Frulfump
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What variant of Codex are you using?
App
What feature would you like to see?
Restore previous chat on restart/update, ideally an option. For me it would be best if the default was changed but that might not be best for the majority.
Additional information
Currently it doesn't remember the text that's in the input box if you restart either normally or press the update button. So if you've prepared a long message it's just deleted
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Not dupe, that's for extension and this one is for the app.
Can you say more about what you mean by "restore previous chat"? Do you mean that you want the active selection to be restored after restart? Or do you mean that if a thread was in the middle of a turn and was interrupted at the time the app quit, you want a new turn to be initiated when the app is restarted?
The active selection yes. I haven't considered the middle of a turn scenario that hasn't happened to me yet. UPDATE: For the middle of a turn scenario I'd like a resume button or something similar for affected threads, possibly a resume all if there was multiple sessions in-progress.
The clarification above makes this feel like two separable requests that may deserve different behavior:
The second one is the highest data-loss risk: losing a long unsent prompt on update/restart is surprising even if the app intentionally does not auto-resume interrupted turns.
A narrow MVP could avoid the more complex “resume all running turns” behavior and just persist:
That would address the reported loss while leaving interrupted-turn restart semantics as a separate product decision.
@SylvainWinning, please don't post AI-generated answers to our issue tracker. You're generating noise that is not helpful.
This seems to restore the chat box contents when I navigate back to a thread after a restart in 26.527 but I haven't seen any release note or otherwise so it might be an accident that it's working correctly right now