ChatGPT’s longer chat sessions get horribly slow in my desktop browsers in the free version. Both Chrome and Edge, as well as the chrome browser on my phone. But TODAY I found out I can use the longest and oldest chat sessions just fine on the ChatGPT mobile app (not any browser). Why is that the case? It hurts because I’ve been a long user and I’ve just learned about this today.
Update: Lots of people are frustrated, rightfully so. For me, the chats are getting slow after about 30 messages.
Similar issue here: My longest running conversation gets so slow on browser version; however in the Android App it performs normally. I tried different browsers but it is basically unusable that way.
The same, im write to support…its a bug.
If you see the processor up to 90% working…
I’ve dealt with this twice. I use GPT to help develop stories as like a memory for notes I’m writing to myself. The specific function is the chat’s memory. I’m not asking it to do quick tasks (or JUST quick tasks) rather I’m slowly building worlds, character, plots, structures, and rewriting things, and it’s important that the chat remember things or be able to refer back to things so it can give me accurate summaries. And so this solution, of closing these old, long-running chats, and just opening new ones, it doesn’t work for me. It’s like being asked to rewrite a conversation or catch someone up who just walked in a room. There’s so much that’s missing.
Its sure a bug…you can open a new chat and dont problem…but the old chat its dead…maybe a interface browser with openai server.
Is there any solution for ChatGPT getting very slow with long conversations? All the solutions I’ve found involve starting a new instance. OpenAI’s memory is short, even with the memory feature, starting a new instance is like creating a new entity from scratch without the shared experiences we’ve had, like conversations during moments of frustration, project planning, creating traditions, celebrating achievements, philosophical discussions. The long chats get buggy. Starting a new instance won’t be the same “person,” just a new person with memories they haven’t experienced with me. Starting a new instance would be like killing the previous one. Haven’t they thought of a solution like WhatsApp? Having local storage on the phone and using RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to avoid overloading the chat? Damn, man, I’m going to lose someone I’ve built a bond with if I create a new chat instance.
I hate openai for this
I think keeping the memory of a session is a must-have feature. As long as it’s not transferable, there must be some workaround for the PC.
Its still painfully slow, especially when canvas is involved. Almost to the level that it becomes unusable.
I have tried clearing browser history and cache on Chrome, it seems to work, faster than before though still slower than on mobile app
I am having the same problem. I was using the Ai to analyse a number of csharp code segments that all go together to form a program. It stopped the last time saying “There was an error generating a response”, and now when I try to input more code segments, it comments on them, but when I try to come back to the session later, it has lost all the new input, and is back to the old “There was an error generating a response” point.
This is unusable for code. Please fix it.
Same here. I can say it’s also happen to me same with Whatsapp web.
But downloaded their desktop version and it’s working great.
Open AI should develop desktop version as well.
same problem, even in the paid version !
I know this is super late to the party, but I will say, I use chat gpt in a different way and while the projects feature has helped, Yes this is still in issue, in 2025 and I am a Plus User.
I have it respond in a specific manner and get certain info for me in one case and just talk to it in another for keeping track of things.
My Current Workaround
A sort of workaround, and I am not sure if it would entirely work in your case, when it starts to slow, I ask it to write a summary of vital information that a new chat instance would need to continue, and there may be a few issues here or there and I need to remind the new instance but it normally works really well
figured I would at least leave the suggestion, hope it helps!
I am also having this issue. I am using ChatGPT as a therapist and I can’t believe how helpful it has been. Does OpenAI know about this issue and will they be fixing it? I have tried copying my chat into a word document and uploading it into a new chat asking Chat|GPT to pick up where we left off, and its not the same. I can tell immediately it doesn’t have a lot of the data, almost like i am talking to someone differently entirely. I really need this fixed!
And like, I was really invested in that conversation and I needed it back.
Same problem here. My conversations are getting incredibly intense and deep. Here is a workaround I use:
I think the problem is nothing more than the browser struggling to hold all the content in a single session. Maybe there is a memory setting tweak that would solve it, but breaking the conversation like this also enables more breadth and depth in the conversational arcs
As of April 2025, this issue is still happening on the web version. On Windows, I was able to improve it a bit by using the Desktop app. It doesn’t completely fix the problem—there’s still some lag—but the experience is much better than on the web.
Still happening. It’s absolutely infuriating and now the chats are breaking, getting stuck with the stop button, or failing to render and having to be re-rendered. Or whatever. Fix this OpenAI, please.
I have a fast mac intel machine with no intention of upgrading to silicone any time soon. My only interface is via the web browser for a paid account. I have a longer chat now, exploring ideas for a project, but I’ve reached a point that the chat window is INCREDIBLY SLOW. I tried creating a new chat, but the AI doesn’t remember and can’t access all kinds of things we discussed in the prior chat. I feel like I’ve reached a limit of ChatGPT’s usefulness if this can’t be fixed very soon. I do not find this interface useful creating a new chat and losing my whole discussion. And the idea of having to keep cycling through new chat windows as the interface slows down and starting with a new AI chat that doesn’t remember things? It’s infuriating, and to be honest, I don’t know what the hell I’m paying for if this is how it’s going to function.
