Dictation with codex on Android flakes out regularly

Open 💬 3 comments Opened Jul 1, 2026 by dharmatech

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

Version 26.623.61825 • Released Jun 28, 2026

What subscription do you have?

pro

What platform is your computer?

Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64

What issue are you seeing?

Dictation in ChatGPT Android : 👍

Dictation in ChatGPT on Android is rock solid.
I've used it for many months and it has always worked great.
I've dictated extremely long messages and it always handles them great.
If there's ever an app glitch or other issue, the dictation feature always recovers gracefully.
The resulting dictation text is always shown even if there's an issue so that I can copy the text and maybe restart the app if needed.

Dictation in codex on ChatGPT on Android...

The dictation with codex through ChatGPT on Android is another story.
When it works, yes, it works great.
But a few times a day it glitches out.

Examples

After submitting the dictation, the input widget disappears
During dictation, it will spontaneously stop listening and revert to the blank input widget

Suggestion

If there's ever an issue with the connection to the remote codex, always preserver the resulting dictation text to allow the user to send later.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Use dictation a bunch of times in codex on ChatGPT Android.
Eventually the issue happens.

What is the expected behavior?

Make dictation with codex on Android as stable and reliable as dictation with ChatGPT Android.

Additional information

_No response_

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3 Comments

dharmatech · 1 month ago

Here's a video demonstrating one of the issues I've seen with codex on android:

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/0ac53118-b5de-405c-82d2-f6efc3706a81

GleckusZeroFive · 1 month ago

I can reproduce a more specific and seemingly deterministic variant of this bug in the ChatGPT Android app.

Environment

ChatGPT Android app: 1.2026.188
Android 16
Device: CPH2767
Codex Remote session opened from the Remote tab

Steps to reproduce

Open an active Codex session from the ChatGPT Android app's Remote tab.
Tap the microphone icon for speech-to-text dictation (not Voice Mode).
Record some text and wait for transcription to finish.
The entire Remote composer/input field disappears, leaving only the session

humanbeans893 · 15 days ago

I can reproduce a stronger version of this on Android in Codex Remote.

Observed behavior

Voice dictation works normally in a regular ChatGPT chat on the same Android device.
In the Codex Remote composer, Gboard voice dictation stops after roughly 1–2 seconds, even while I am continuously speaking.
This is not just the ChatGPT/Codex microphone UI: the same premature stop happens when using Gboard's microphone inside the Codex Remote input field.

Reproduction

Open a normal ChatGPT chat on Android and start Gboard voice dictation: it continues normally.
Open a Codex Remote thread.
Focus the Codex Remote input field and start Gboard voice dictation.
Keep speaking continuously.
Dictation terminates after about 1–2 seconds.

Expected behavior
Gboard dictation should remain active while the user is speaking, just as it does in a normal ChatGPT composer.

Because the same Gboard dictation works in regular ChatGPT but immediately stops in the Codex Remote input field, this appears specific to the Codex Remote composer / Android IME integration rather than microphone permissions or silence detection.