ChatGPT Atlas: Configurable Enter key behavior for IME users

ChatGPT Feature requests
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Please add a setting in ChatGPT Atlas to choose whether Enter sends the message.

For IME users, including Japanese, Chinese, and Korean users, Enter is not primarily a send key. It is part of text composition. We use Enter to confirm conversion candidates and finalize composed text. Because of this, fixed Enter-to-send behavior causes accidental submissions.

The safer option should be:

  • Enter inserts a newline
  • Cmd+Enter sends on macOS
  • Ctrl+Enter sends on Windows/Linux

This matters especially in Atlas, where users often write longer side-chat messages while looking at web pages, logs, code, documents, and browser context.

This is also a compute-cost issue, not only a UX issue. Accidental sends submit incomplete drafts, partial logs, unfinished code snippets, and half-composed IME text. Users then often send correction messages, creating avoidable extra inference requests.

A simple “Send message with Enter” toggle would reduce accidental sends, improve international usability, and reduce unnecessary request volume for IME/composition users.

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Welcome to the dev Community! @Yamar50

This is a really solid callout, especially the IME angle. Totally get how Enter-to-send can disrupt composition and lead to accidental sends. I’ll make sure this feedback gets passed along to the product team.

~Smith

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Thank you, Smith.

I appreciate you passing this along. The IME angle is the key point here: for Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and other composition-based input workflows, Enter is part of text composition before it is a send command.

This becomes especially noticeable in Atlas side chat because users often write longer messages while referencing web pages, logs, code, or documents. A configurable send shortcut would reduce accidental sends and make Atlas much safer for IME users.