Need for part chat section deletion
OpenAI Developer Community
June 23, 2026
Hey @DazMuz, welcome to the community! I can see why that would be frustrating, especially when one long-running chat has become an important collaborator for your story.
Being able to remove older messages or images from a conversation while keeping the newer context would be a useful way to manage very large chats and reduce slowdown without having to start over completely.
For now, the closest workaround is to ask ChatGPT to summarize the current story context, characters, rules, and open threads, then move that summary into a new chat or Project. It’s not the same as trimming the original conversation, but it can help keep things more responsive.
I can’t share a timeline right now, but I’ll pass this feedback along internally.
- Sunny
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