macOS App Bug: Stuck on "Work" or "Codex" selection screen, can't access my chat
The issue surfaced on 13 Jul, when a macOS app user reported being stuck on the “Work” or “Codex” selection screen and unable to access chats. On 15 Sep, a Codex Windows app report described a related failure: users could send only the first message in each chat.
By 15 Oct, another OpenAI report showed a “Model not found” error. On 16 Oct, users of the macOS app reported frequent reloads and crashes. Other user opinions describe ChatGPT struggling with long conversation threads, new chat limits, conversations stopping with a ■, missing mobile project folders, absent login prompts, difficulty deleting an account without access, and ChatGPT Classic on Windows 11 failing to log in after logout with a NextAuth.js HTTP GET error following 2FA. One OpenAI opinion also describes Codex repeatedly taking one-minute work periods. This is an untidy collection of access and continuity failures that can make a chat app forget the chat.
Taking this as factual, impact is 10%. Affected macOS users can lose access to existing chats or face repeated reloads and crashes. Codex users on Windows can find conversations unusable after the first message. The immediate change is degraded access across specific app workflows. These reports establish no broader effect.
Watch for OpenAI to acknowledge the macOS selection-screen, reload, crash, Windows messaging, and model errors, then publish fixes or workarounds. Version details and reports that the failures can be reproduced consistently would sharpen the picture.
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1t9jfo5/chatgpt_is_terrible_at_long_conversation_threads/"> <img alt="ChatGPT is terrible at long conversation
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>As of today I can't find my project folders on the left pane above recents anymore - I see this spaces stuff and there's a folders open there but
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1smrexf/how_to_delete_account_without_access/"> <img alt="How to delete account without access"
<table> <tr><td> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1s93wri/new_chat_limits/"> <img alt="New Chat Limits"
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Hello.<br /> Since ChatGPT was updated, it frequently stops with a ■ and I can’t continue the conversation. Is this happening only to me?<br />
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p><strong>Edit</strong>: I was finally able to log back into ChatGPT Classic!</p> <p>The issue appears to have been related to Firefox's Enhanced
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>For some reason today, my rate limits on chatGPT codex seemed to have frozen. I was at 53% for my 5 hr limit, and i ran 12 more gpt 5.5 extra
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>For some reason earlier today, it just stopped being able to see images in work mode on the Windows desktop app. I asked it to analyze an image
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