Feature Request: Allow Users to Delete or Exclude Individual Messages from Context

ChatGPT Feature requests
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To OpenAI Team,

I’d like to suggest a feature that could significantly improve ChatGPT’s handling of long conversations.

One of the biggest limitations with LLMs is context window size. It would be extremely useful if users could delete or exclude individual messages from a conversation’s context instead of having to start a new chat when a conversation becomes too long.

For example, if a conversation contains an old code snippet, irrelevant discussion, or a large file that is no longer needed, the user could simply remove that particular message from the active context while keeping the rest of the conversation.

An even better implementation could be an “Exclude from context” option, where the message remains visible in the conversation history but is no longer considered when generating future responses.

This would give users much more control over context usage and make long-running conversations significantly more practical.

Thank you.

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Thanks for the idea. We’ll pass along the request to remove individual messages from active context while keeping them visible in history. We don’t have a timeline to share.