Bug: Previous Widget Hides/Disappears Upon Second Rendering

This morning, while utilizing the ChatGPT Apps SDK, I observed a defect: upon rendering the second widget, the previously displayed widget ceases to render and is no longer visible.

  • My local codebase is consistent with the previous successful deployment. Subsequent verification utilizing the App booking sample application resulted in the reproduction of the identical issue (See attached images).
  • I suspect this is a recently introduced bug within the ChatGPT Apps SDK. A review of the official Changelog (developers. openai. com/changelog?product=apps-sdk ) yielded no documentation regarding recent updates that might explain this behavior.

2026-01-15_13-33-05

Furthermore:

  1. Could you please confirm the definitive location for accessing the comprehensive, detailed changelog upon a new version release? For instance, the recently introduced “Reference memories and chats” option in the App Settings was observed but was not documented in the publicly available Changelog.
  2. The Refresh functionality within the App settings, intended to facilitate widget reloading following code updates, is currently demonstrating unreliable behavior. Successful redeployment required creating a new App instance with a distinct identifier (new naming).

Thanks.

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Seeing this too.

Spent a bunch of time trying to debug it, smh.

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Seeing the same. Hoping it is not a feature.

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I have the same issue and it seems to act the same way for published apps as well. However today I’ve noticed that the app Quizzes by OpenAI is does not have its widgets disappearing.

Does anyone know if it’s possible to keep the previous widgets?

Same issue here, the previous experience is better to let users see earlier widgets.

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Thank you for reporting this. It sounds like several people are hitting the same issue. I’ll escalate this.

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Thank you, @benlesh & ChatGPT Development Team.
Today, I confirm that it is now operating as expected.
The bug has been resolved.

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