Remote control: certain sessions do not appear in the remote control app
Open 💬 2 comments Opened Jul 14, 2026 by BlueApple4126
💡 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)?
26.707.71524 for the desktop app | 1.2026.188 from the phone app
What subscription do you have?
Pro 5x
What platform is your computer?
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64
What issue are you seeing?
Certain sessions created from the chatgpt desktop app isn't visiable in the mobile remote control.
The session is created by the user not an agent
The session was created in 5.6 Sol
What steps can reproduce the bug?
Session ID: 019f5a10-d343-7322-af85-9c91d698da5f
I can not reproduce this bug other sessions made after this error are visible
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
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Found the reasoning of the issue: if a session is created with only a file with no text given from the user(i.e. pasting a huge handoff causing it to be pasted as a file and having no other text in the initial message), the session will not be shown on the remote control app