Clicking a search result in a chat does not jump to the actual message – only to the bottom
OpenAI Developer Community
February 25, 2026
Hey @TarablyM, yeah I hear you. What you’re seeing is actually how chat search works right now. It’ll show matching results, but it doesn’t auto-jump or highlight the exact message inside long conversations. So it’s not a bug, just a limitation at the moment. Totally agree it makes digging through older chats more painful than it should be.
One thing that can help a bit is just asking directly in that same chat something like, “Can you list everywhere we talked about ?” The model can usually pull those sections together faster than manually scrolling around.
I’ll make sure this gets logged as feedback since better in-chat navigation comes up pretty often.
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