[macOS] Sidebar shows multiple chats as selected across Chat and Work
What version of the Codex/ChatGPT Desktop app are you using?
TBD — observed in the current, newly released ChatGPT Desktop app.
What platform is your computer?
macOS 26.5.1 (Mac model TBD)
What issue are you seeing?
The sidebar can show multiple conversations as highlighted simultaneously, even though only one conversation is currently open and active.
This is an observed selection-state rendering issue. I am not claiming that the underlying chat-session state is corrupted.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
- Open a conversation in Chat.
- Switch to Work and open a Work conversation.
- Observe the conversation entries in the sidebar.
- Switch between the Chat and Work conversations.
What is the expected behavior?
Only the conversation currently open in the main view should appear selected. Any previously viewed conversation should lose its active highlighting.
Additional information
Both conversation entries can remain highlighted at the same time, although only one is displayed and active. The sidebar therefore no longer reliably communicates which conversation is selected, making navigation between Chat and Work confusing.
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Additional reproduction scope: I observed the same ambiguous selection state between two pinned conversations in the same sidebar section while both turns were running. Both rows showed the same highlighted background and activity spinner, even though only one conversation was open in the main pane.
No screenshot is attached because the conversation titles contain sensitive information. This suggests the issue is not limited to switching between Chat and Work; it may also occur when multiple pinned or background conversations are active concurrently.
Expected behavior: the running-state indicator may appear on multiple conversations, but the selected/current styling should remain exclusive to the conversation open in the main pane.