All of a sudden that little pencil icon that used to show up that would let me edit is just gone. I don’t know what happened to it
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Several community members have suggested workarounds to deal with the current situation. You can find one particularly interesting suggestion linked as ‘solution’ below.
Same here. I‘ve been trying to use the app instead but it just posts a new message instead of editing the post. So, no alternative at all.
I guess they probably made some change that messed up the edit function. Again. sigh Hope they‘ll solve it soon.
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I am too seeing this new problem.
Hopefully they are just testing some UIs and will be fixed soon!
Yeah kinda need this feature. I was just working with it and all the sudden it’s gone.
Welcome fellow user!
I am wishing they wouldn’t do their AB testing on such key features.
Maybe they are thinking if it is being the first message we should just be starting a new chat instead of be doing editing of first message?
So I’m not going crazy! Thank goodness it isn’t just me! Editing still works on the mobile but I don’t like to use it because you can’t shuffle back to the original message, at least that I’m aware of. Anyone know of a way?
I cannot Editing message too how long do you think it will come back
Me too! On mobile and PC I can’t edit my prompts, and that feature is very important to me.
No clue unfortunately. Hang in there mate!
Is there an ETA for it to come back or they just erased it?
I can’t either. It is a trouble situation for me.
Probably just a bug. I doubt they removed the edit function.
This is probably a new feature launched. Look at all these reply, all made within 3 hour range. And I got this ‘update’ about 5 hours ago. So it must be something they only JUST managed to mess up. (reminds me of cough, cough c.ai)
Me too😭 I can’t edit AND THAT FEATURE is why I use chat gpt over other ai apps. I’m hoping they won’t make it a premium feature to grab money, if they do the only result will be that their app and website loses a ton of people
right, Its easier, faster and more precise change a few words to get that output wanted… or maybe you got to a branch of something and didn’t like that, you can just go up and change the message 
They really should’ve done this on a test site.
Same , the edit aka pencil icon is gone now too. In addition to the repeat button . Hopefully, OpenAI can fix those problems fast . And not to make the edit and repeat features premium . Sicne it helps me and other users a lot compare to other AI platforms.
Same here. Thought I hit the chat size limit but no. Gone in every new chat with every model as well.
sadly i reloaded my tab and lost it… it really sucks, if they remove any feature it shouldn’t be the editing one
I have the same issue. This feature is completely essential. Super unfortunate that this happened now. I am working on a blog post and I am basically prevented from being able to continue working on it since when the answer from ChatGPT is off, I have to ask again and then it completely explodes my chat with irrelevant information, which then in turn completely confuses the AI. I need the edit button back now! I have the payed version, and IMO it is super expensive, so this is not something that I would take lightly on. In my opinion this is a severity 0 escalation and they should have an engineer on this ASAP!
Update: I found a workaround. You can make the message tools visible using the browser developer tools. Right click the message you want to edit and make the tools visible by unticking the hidden CSS rule:
