#Edit user message button suddenly absent

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ashen glenBOT
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Reported by @dense thorn

Bug Report: Edit user message button suddenly absent
`Steps to Reproduce`

Open a new chat window or refresh a currently opened one. Check user inputs, the edit button is absent!

`Expected Result`

Delightful options to edit inputs.

`Actual Result`

Puzzlement and a rush to report the unexpected absence

`Environment`

Windows, web environment ChatGPT

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Additional Information

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dense thorn
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Previous, bugless-state:

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Current, without edit option state (after page refresh):

torn mango
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Can confirm

dim field
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Appears that the div was set to hidden <div class="absolute bottom-0 right-full top-0 -mr-3.5 hidden pr-5 pt-2 [.group/conversation-turn:hover_&amp;]:flex"><div class="flex"><span class="" data-state="closed"><button class="rounded-lg text-token-text-secondary hover:bg-token-main-surface-secondary" aria-label="Copy" data-testid="copy-turn-action-button"><span class="flex h-[30px] w-[30px] items-center justify-center"><svg width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-md-heavy"><path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M7 5C7 3.34315 8.34315 2 10 2H19C20.6569 2 22 3.34315 22 5V14C22 15.6569 20.6569 17 19 17H17V19C17 20.6569 15.6569 22 14 22H5C3.34315 22 2 20.6569 2 19V10C2 8.34315 3.34315 7 5 7H7V5ZM9 7H14C15.6569 7 17 8.34315 17 10V15H19C19.5523 15 20 14.5523 20 14V5C20 4.44772 19.5523 4 19 4H10C9.44772 4 9 4.44772 9 5V7ZM5 9C4.44772 9 4 9.44772 4 10V19C4 19.5523 4.44772 20 5 20H14C14.5523 20 15 19.5523 15 19V10C15 9.44772 14.5523 9 14 9H5Z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg></span></button></span><span class="" data-state="closed"><button aria-label="Edit message" class="flex h-[30px] w-[30px] items-center justify-center rounded-lg text-token-text-secondary transition hover:bg-token-main-surface-secondary"><svg width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-md"><path fill-rule="evenodd" clip-rule="evenodd" d="M13.2929 4.29291C15.0641 2.52167 17.9359 2.52167 19.7071 4.2929C21.4784 6.06414 21.4784 8.93588 19.7071 10.7071L18.7073 11.7069L11.6135 18.8007C10.8766 19.5376 9.92793 20.0258 8.89999 20.1971L4.16441 20.9864C3.84585 21.0395 3.52127 20.9355 3.29291 20.7071C3.06454 20.4788 2.96053 20.1542 3.01362 19.8356L3.80288 15.1C3.9742 14.0721 4.46243 13.1234 5.19932 12.3865L13.2929 4.29291ZM13 7.41422L6.61353 13.8007C6.1714 14.2428 5.87846 14.8121 5.77567 15.4288L5.21656 18.7835L8.57119 18.2244C9.18795 18.1216 9.75719 17.8286 10.1993 17.3865L16.5858 11L13 7.41422ZM18 9.5858L14.4142 6.00001L14.7071 5.70712C15.6973 4.71693 17.3027 4.71693 18.2929 5.70712C19.2831 6.69731 19.2831 8.30272 18.2929 9.29291L18 9.5858Z" fill="currentColor"></path></svg></button></span></div></div>

torn mango
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How do we fix it?

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Or they to be exact

dense thorn
dim field
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well have to wait for openai to fix because it appears to be a lot more then just this single div and some of the scripts are broken as well

dense thorn
torn mango
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Ughhhh 😩

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I'll be patient but dang I was really invested in something

dim field
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👍

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found a workaround just have to write it out

torn mango
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Cool

dim field
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If you are using Google Chrome: 1. Press f12 to open browser console 2. Press ctrl+shift+c to use select element 3. click the box around the message you wish to edit. 4. Go through the dropdowns underneath the selected item until you get to the line with the word hidden. 5. Remove the word hidden. 6. Use like normal.

torn mango
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How about on your phone?

dim field
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through the app or the website?

torn mango
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Both

magic sail
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on app it is working

dim field
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can confirm app its working fine

torn mango
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Oh ok then website

dim field
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website let me login one sec

visual pebble
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same issue here

dim field
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on mobile just use the app for website you can use my bypass or wait for the openai team to fix it should be a quick fix since its a single line single word html fix

tough quail
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this method works in Brave as well, will check with Firefox in a second

dim field
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it should work with any browser but keybinds may be different

tough quail
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oh wait, you right nvm

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I stg if they get rid of the edit button in favor of Canvas that would honestly be the only reason I stop using ChatGPT

dim field
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its not intentional otherwise it would just be removed not hidden i think there working on the autoswitcher feature

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official bug report has been submitted

tough quail
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The unfortunate thing is if the conversation is closed and reopened, it appears to erase everything that is done after the HTML is edited

dense thorn
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Hopefully OAI gets their-side fix soon. It is after hours on a Friday though; unsure how that may matter.

tough quail
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Guess that gives me reason to actually work on the story instead of bouncing plot ideas around

tough quail
modest zenith
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How to Use:

  1. Create a new bookmark.
  2. Rename it to 'edit' and replace the URL with the code above.
  3. Click this bookmark whenever you want to edit.
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So... OAI isn't secretly planning to make the edit button a Pro-only feature, right?

dim field
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wouldnt they also get rid of edit with canvas then?

modest zenith
dim field
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snort

dim field
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it costs them nothing to have and forces users to use up the limits faster theres literally no reason for them to remove it business wise

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but this is a bug report so not really the place to discuss it

dense thorn
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I only know what we all do - but I don't see anything that makes me think they'd want it removed. It's useful for everyone and a pretty simple thing.

People who want it, have the option. In general they seem to me to want to increase our options. Even if maybe many of us hoped somehow they do so even faster than they already do 😛

I'm just a super happy with the options I got person though. It's okay to be however you are.

kindred helm
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I think this is just a bug because I experienced the same bug about six months ago, but it was fixed as if nothing had happened the next day.

south gazelle
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Just adding a +1 that I also have this issue

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The edit button appears and works for me on the mobile app, but not on PC. Tried multiple browsers, none of them work.

tired pebble
vagrant yoke
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Do other browsers work normally or is it that the edit button has disappeared on all of them?

median herald
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I'm getting the same issue

vagrant yoke
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Damn, what a massacre

open zephyr
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Also have this issue.

vagrant yoke
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Are there any real solutions to this problem or do we have to kindly wait until the Open AI team takes care of it?

cunning parrot
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Another UI bug. I know frontend design is hard but this frequent breaking is frustrating...

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This code worked for me.
document.querySelectorAll('[class~="[.group\\/conversation-turn:hover_&]:flex"]').forEach(el=>el.style.display="block");
F12 -> console -> paste above and press enter.

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(you have to repeat it every time)

elfin comet
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I almost crazy because past a wrong word and can't edit it

vagrant yoke
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I get some errors when I try to type it into the console

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But on Microsoft Edge everything works normally

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Maybe on Opera too, I don't know why, what caused Google Chrome to react

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And another question, logging out and logging in won't work either

cunning parrot
vagrant yoke
cunning parrot
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This is more convenient way, I guess.

vagrant yoke
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Hey, did someone report them on the official feedback?

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Well, this is a pretty big failure.

torn mango
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Hope it's fixed today. Weird they haven't acknowledged it though

cunning parrot
hybrid nimbus
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heres a tampermonkey script that temp fixes the missing button

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// ==UserScript==
// @name         ChatGPT Editor Fix
// @namespace    http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version      2025-02-15
// @description  Fixes missing editing button
// @author       You
// @match        https://chatgpt.com/c/*
// @icon         https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?sz=64&domain=chatgpt.com
// @grant        none

// ==/UserScript==

(function() {
    'use strict';
    javascript:(function(){var s=document.createElement('style');s.innerHTML="div.absolute.bottom-0.right-full.top-0{display:block!important;left:-65px!important;}";document.head.appendChild(s);})();

    // Your code here...
})();```
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use a userscript manager

vagrant yoke
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I don't know how I did it but it works thank you for this code

naive bobcat
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What does the "high" refer to in the o3 name?

hidden citrus
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still no edit button

naive bobcat
median herald
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any updates on it???

stuck violet
naive bobcat
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Huh, okay and now it's working again. I did try those steps before, and nada.

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I'm wondering if there might be conflicts as OpenAI is trying to fix things on their own end?

hidden citrus
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alright im gonna say it
OpenAi intentionally removed the button

torn mango
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I hope not

naive bobcat
torn mango
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I really hope they didn't otherwise I ain't paying them

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... I hope they say something

naive bobcat
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That *monkey script appears to only work for ChatGPT. Not Dall-E or other custom GPT's.

hybrid nimbus
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does editing work on the app

torn mango
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Yes it does on the app

plush cypress
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we really need it

dim field
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i mean today is a holiday in the us

dense thorn
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Mmm, yeah. Weekend's not traditionally workweek, and Friday was Valentine's Day, which is usually a workday. But this is probably a very personal-time-type weekend for a lot of folks.

I know they care about us, we get a lot even if we'd like mooooore! 😄

open zephyr
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So...monday then.

hidden citrus
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nope

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presidents day exists

open zephyr
dense thorn
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Oh. Did I forget that? I didn't check!

But they will help us. I can't imagine why they would not want us editing our posts to be allowed.

Bugs happen.

vagrant yoke
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Hey, what does it depend on that some people have this button to edit messages and others don't?

static loom
regal tulip
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They updated 4o today. Could this be connected?

vagrant yoke
dire escarp
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It still hasn’t been fixed yet

naive bobcat
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I noticed something else is wrong. The arrow that jumps to the bottom of the page is missing too.

dim field
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Appears to have been resolved

naive bobcat
dense thorn
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Mine is fixed, but I needed to refresh the page - not just go to a different chat - to see this.

If the refresh alone doesn't fix for you - consider if you want to try logout, log back in and see.

hybrid nimbus
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Its fixed

median herald
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it's fixed for me

vagrant yoke
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Also fixed by me

jaunty pond
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So the edit button is back, wow that stirred some ruckus 😄
https://community.openai.com/t/edit-message-button-in-chatgpt-is-missing
(>400 comments in a day)

OpenAI Developer Community

All of a sudden that little pencil icon that used to show up that would let me edit is just gone. I don’t know what happened to it Edited by moderator: Several community members have suggested workarounds to deal with the current situation. You can find one particularly interesting suggestion linked as ‘solution’ below.

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did anyone from OpenAI mention why it happened?

regal tulip
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My guess is unintended consequence of updating 4o.

jaunty pond
regal tulip
jaunty pond
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if anyone finds out how 4o improved please share

dire escarp
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It happened again

lilac jewel
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Happening on my end too

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Prompt generation count is acting like 0/3

median herald
vagrant yoke
noble comet
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the edit button disappeared too

tired pebble
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the edit button is only gone for the very first message of a conversation all others after that have it

cunning parrot
naive bobcat
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The edit button is missing for me on all recent inputs I've sent this morning. Earlier inputs in conversations still have the edit button. Refreshing doesn't fix things, restarting doesn't fix them.

dire escarp
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It’s still missing

naive bobcat
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It just came back for me on a recent input, but it's still missing on the earlier inputs that never had it. I can page back and forth between different edits I'd done at the same point in a conversation, the older edits have it, newer edits, not there.

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So this looks to me like an issue in the conversation database. I've never seen evidence they've used it before, but apparently that's a field for whether to allow edits or not on any given stored input.

lilac jewel
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I still can't page back and forth on past generated prompts as well. That's still fecked

median herald
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remind me when it's finally fixed

naive bobcat
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So now the missing edit button seems to be fixed for me.. mostly. I'm still sometimes ending up with inputs missing their edit buttons.

lilac jewel
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The prompt counter for generated responses is still FUBAR in some of my conversations

dire escarp
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And still no edit button

lilac jewel
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They still haven't fixed the bug

dire escarp
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Completely neglecting of them

naive bobcat
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It's happening randomly for me now. Sometimes it's not there, sometimes it's there. And I'm finding it missing on older inputs from conversations I haven't touched in a while.

lilac jewel
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Wakey wakey OpenAI, please fix or stabilise the damn bug lol

lilac jewel
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They finally fixed it. It looks normal on the web mobile version on my phone

dire escarp
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Not on mine

jaunty pond
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jesus, the bug has been here for 4 weeks now

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They really either don't care or are lacking good devs

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Clearly a proof they're not even reading these chats 😂

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we're just talking to air, ranting, wasting time

torn mango
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The first prompt edit glitch is still In affect though 😞

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Ì want to see mu other prompts

last nymph
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Same problem. 200$ subscription and such stupid bugs💀

vagrant yoke
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oj

pallid wharf
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Anyone still has the edit issue on first message?

dire escarp
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Yep

torn mango
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Ughhhh

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Pain!!

dire escarp
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Still do

lilac jewel
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So this is happening every time i use 4.5

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Can confirm using 4.5 triggers the 0/x
Seems like another bug

pallid wharf
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Lovely...

lilac jewel
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So I suspiciously found it's affecting only one of my conversations, not all of them 🤨

pallid wharf
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Huh... so now on a new conversation at least on Firefox Android. I got a copy button instead of edit or nothing on the first prompt

clear chasm
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I lost Edit and Copy for a while, have them back now. Only using/testing browser/FF. Did not do more extensive testing with projects, temporary, different models, etc.
Summary: Was broke. Works now. I'm happy. 🕺

dim field
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its whenever it activates a tool

magic sail
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the edit on any messages not the first one is gone at least for me on website

modest zenith
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...Or so I thought—wait, I can't use it?!

neat aurora
modest zenith
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I never thought OAI would actually remove the edit button...

Anyway, I found out that it's still possible to deal with it using the following method, so give it a try!

  1. When you can no longer edit on the web version...
  2. Open that post in the mobile app version and edit it there
  3. For some reason, after that, editing also becomes possible again on the web version
dire escarp
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It happened again

dire escarp
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This time I can’t edit any of the posts

naive bobcat
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It's variable, again. Some conversations/messages have it, some don't. Which is which remains constant through refreshes.

lilac jewel
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OpenAI would you kindly please stop screwing with the UI