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Feature Request: Mobile Message Branching, Chat Merging & Lightweight Media Archiving

OpenAI Developer Community May 22, 2026
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Feature Request: Mobile Message Branching, Chat Merging & Lightweight Media Archiving

I’d love to see more advanced long-chat management features added to the mobile app, especially for power users managing ongoing projects, technical workflows, and media-heavy conversations.

  1. Message / Line Selection for New Chat Branching (Mobile)

The web version already supports workflows similar to:

  • “Select message → Start a new chat from this”

  • “Select message → Ask about this inside the conversation”

Bringing similar functionality to the mobile app would be extremely useful.

Especially in long conversations, this would help users:

  • isolate specific technical problems,

  • branch prompts into separate workflows,

  • continue older ideas independently,

  • keep complex chats organized,

  • analyze selected messages while preserving context.

On mobile, long-pressing a message or message group could offer options like:

  • “Continue as new chat”

  • “Branch from this message”

  • “Create new chat from selected messages”

  • “Ask about selected messages”

This would significantly improve the mobile UX for advanced and long-term usage.

  1. Chat Merge / Conversation Grouping System

Currently, conversations become fragmented over time, especially when the same project is spread across multiple chats.

Instead:

  • multiple chats could be selected via long-press,

  • a “Merge Conversations” option could be added,

  • AI could organize merged chats chronologically and contextually under a unified project/thread.

Example use cases:

  • collecting scattered conversations related to the same brand or project,

  • centralizing technical troubleshooting,

  • organizing ongoing health/work/software processes,

  • building a persistent long-term project memory.

This would be especially valuable for power users with heavy and continuous usage patterns.

Additionally, after merging, AI-assisted organization features could automatically generate:

  • timelines,

  • topic sections,

  • duplicate cleanup,

  • key decision summaries,

  • task lists,

  • pinned critical notes.

  1. Lightweight Digital Asset Archiving System

In long conversations, generated:

  • images,

  • videos,

  • audio files,

  • large output packages,

  • rendered assets,

  • code outputs

can gradually impact chat performance and responsiveness.

Instead, the system could:

  • store optimized hash/reference-based records of generated assets,

  • display only lightweight previews and metadata inside the conversation,

  • unload heavy assets from active chat memory.

If needed, users could later:

  • “Reload asset”

  • “Restore original quality”

  • “Regenerate this output”

  • “Use this generation as reference”

This approach could help:

  • conversations remain smoother,

  • mobile devices use less memory/resources,

  • reduce server load,

  • archive older projects more efficiently.

For users heavily focused on image/video generation and long-term workflows, this could become a very powerful optimization feature.

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