Chat Support for Safari PWA just broke

I have for the last 6 months been using ChatGPT as Safari Web App aka ‘add to dock’ which has been working great. I have a global shortcut through BTT to switch to chat which is much faster than trying to find the tab (or one of the tabs). Unfortunately this morning chat has changed the way it handles Auth/OAuth flow, now it opens chat in a new window using my default browser every time I try to open the safari web app. I.e. no way to sign in and keep using it.

Please, someone find a fix. I love my global keyboard shortcuts and don’t want to get into writing macros to switch browser tabs.

Steps to reproduce; Open Chat on Safari → Use ‘add to dock’ feature → Open Chat as app using spotlight → [If not already.] Invalidate the login token (sign out) → try to login. New browser windows will appear and get you to sign in but web app never opens/gets token.

It might be just me, I will update if I find out more technical details/workaround for those with the same issue.

EDIT: By logging in via safari and remaking the web app I was able to get it to work again.

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I came here to report the same issue. Many thanks for the tip to get it working again!

I hope the need for this workaround doesn’t become a regular occurrence.