So they’ve removed study mode? This is the last straw for me. I’ve had it. Why a
The frustration arrived on April 15th in the form of a user who'd apparently had enough. The complaint was specific: study mode, a feature that had become part of how some paying subscribers used ChatGPT, appears to have been quietly removed. No announcement. No explanation. Just gone. The person writing wasn't venting about a bug or asking for help — they were cancelling, or at least threatening to. The phrase "last straw" carries weight precisely because it implies a longer list of grievances, and they named one directly: the product, in their experience, has been degrading for twelve months. That's a year of accumulating disappointment culminating in a missing feature they cared about enough to pay for.
If confirmed, here is what this means. OpenAI has a subscriber trust problem that is becoming harder to ignore. Removing features without communication isn't unusual in tech — products get restructured, priorities shift — but doing it to paying customers is a different kind of mistake. The people most likely to notice a missing study mode are students and educators, a segment that OpenAI has explicitly courted. Losing them quietly is one thing; losing them loudly, in public forums, while they explain exactly why they're leaving, is a compounding reputational cost. The deeper issue is that "only getting worse" is a customer perception that, once formed, becomes self-fulfilling — every subsequent friction confirms the story they've already decided is true. One frustrated post is noise. A pattern of them is a product strategy problem wearing a support ticket.
Watch for any official acknowledgment from OpenAI about study mode's status, and for whether similar complaints cluster in the days ahead — volume would change this from a single user's bad day into a signal worth taking seriously.
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<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I can no longer share my camera in Voice Mode to show ChatGPT what I’m looking at and ask questions about it. Is anyone else experiencing
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>As the title says. I'm getting absolutely no thinking time reported on my prompts, and the answers are coming out completely instant. It feels
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>What the hell is this? First 4o gone and now 5.2? I really preferred it to 5.3, so now we just cannot select a model? This is really annoying
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Is it no longer supported ? </p> </div><!-- SC_ON -->   submitted by   <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/ali1m2"> /u/ali1m2 </a> <br
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1ugwx2q/thinking_now_completely_removed_in_go_too/"> <img alt="Thinking now completely removed in Go too?"
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>It's now not only hidden in the UI, but also cannot be called using the @ etc. </p> <p>Agent Mode is pretty much the best mode for visual
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1t2ths0/live_vision_mode_disappeared/"> <img alt="Live Vision Mode Disappeared"
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