Why did ChatGPT make editing worse? Bring back the old version history
OpenAI Developer Community
June 11, 2026
There are a few feature gates being tested on subgroups of ChatGPT users related to message editing and branching, and which may be per-model. You can see them in internally-transmitted objects and client code variables.
Your intolerance of the changes, vented through multiple social platforms, and by whacking in-app thumbs-down, may inform if OpenAI goes through with the proposal.
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