New ChatGPT App - Scrolling Issues

Open 💬 8 comments Opened Aug 10, 2026 by falchion10
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (github-actions[bot], contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

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

26.803.61601

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Plus

What platform is your computer?

macOS 27.0 26A5406e (Darwin 27.0.0 arm64)

What issue are you seeing?

Scrolling behaves very weirdly in the new ChatGPT app vs ChatGPT Classic. I want to show a side by side comparison here (New ChatGPT on the left, ChatGPT Classic on the right). It's difficult to read along with the new ChatGPT app as it continues to scroll even when it doesn't need to, moving content up out of the view causing a huge gap of empty space at the bottom. This is only observable in regular chats, not in Work/Codex.

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1c242bbe-d3dc-468b-b14e-1197eb989871

What steps can reproduce the bug?

  1. Open both apps side by side.
  2. Start a new regular chat in both and type "type exactly 500 words" then do it again to see how scrolling behaves in both.

What is the expected behavior?

It should behave how it did in the old ChatGPT Classic app.

Additional information

This is honestly the main reason keeping me from using the new app day to day, it's pretty much impossible to read along with what ChatGPT is doing, you have to constantly scroll up after every single message, it's very annoying.

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8 Comments

github-actions[bot] contributor · 17 days ago

Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.

  • #37849
  • #37872

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falchion10 · 17 days ago

Will not be closing as my issue appears to be the only one that actually shows a video example of the issue.

Zasz333 · 15 days ago

I installed chatgpt just last week and this issue literally stared me in the face after the first replies. Its so obvious and annoying. Its mind blowing how this is still an issue because the reports go back many months.

Also the "duplicates" are different issues.

Just disable auto-scroll. Its such an obvious solution.

alexgmetcalf · 11 days ago

I have this issue as well, and it's driving me crazy. Latest version of MacOS, latest version of ChatGPT app.

New ChatGPT app confines the conversation to roughly the top 25% of the window and scrolls responses inside that region; ChatGPT Classic and the browser both behave normally on the same Mac.

afrey15 · 9 days ago

This is a major issue. None of the web, phone, or tablet version of the app do this. This is both a Mac and PC desktop app issue. It makes it incredibly annoying to use either.

falchion10 · 3 days ago

This is still an issue on the latest build: 26.818.61809. Can someone please check this issue? I will be periodically messaging here until this gets looked at. This is ridiculous and needs to get fixed.

lennylucas · 1 day ago

I still get this. Incredibly annoying. Am reverting to Claude.

Zasz333 · 19 hours ago

Updates come in pretty much every day but this is still not fixed... Unbelievable...