# Edit History is gone again

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/edit-history-is-gone-again/1394939>\
**Category:** Use cases and examples\
**Tags:** chatgpt, bug\
**Created:** [September 4, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/edit-history-is-gone-again/1394939 "2026-09-04T19:50:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![thedarkn0mad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/thedarkn0mad/32/514853_2.png) [@thedarkn0mad](https://community.openai.com/u/thedarkn0mad)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 7:50pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/edit-history-is-gone-again/1394939/1 "2026-09-04T19:50:42Z")

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Is it just me or did they remove the Edit history again like they did in the March update?

So I wanted to try different iterations of a response and I don’t have the “\<” and “\>” to switch between the edited iterations, just like [6 months ago](https://community.openai.com/t/restore-edit-message-history-in-chatgpt/1379404) when many people unsubscribed and switched to other LLMs cos of it. This worked a few days ago. What I got instead was chat reactions… apparently that was a critical addition that needed to be added, while a feature-removal that made tons of people cancel their subscriptions was removed all over again.

So do any other of you have this issue or am I the unlucky AB tester?

Side note: has anybody found a way to disable the markdown/WYSIWYG formatter in the chat? It’s murder in languages like C or C++ where macros having underscores around them like \_\_ VERSION \_\_ become “VERSION” (ironically enough, it also happens on these forums and I am forced to add spaces) and ChatGPT complains that I am writing the macro incorrectly and that it needs underscores.

Minor rant: I actually expected OpenAI to learn from past mistakes where it pushes new things while removing things that we used for a long time, but it seems it didn’t. While the March update thing was huge, it continued with the new sucky “improved memory” which is horrible, then again with the markdown/WYSIWYG and of course reverted to removing the edit history all over again.

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**Author:** ![novelwriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@novelwriter](https://community.openai.com/u/novelwriter)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/edit-history-is-gone-again/1394939/2 "2026-09-04T20:33:51Z")

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This happened to me as well, and I am stressed that I can’t find the old chats which was continued in the different version