I am a frequent user of ChatGPT and I greatly appreciate the advancements and the utility it provides in generating human-like text based on the prompts given. However, I often find myself engaging in a back-and-forth with ChatGPT, asking clarifying questions to ensure I fully understand the generated responses. Over time, this can make the chat history quite lengthy and somewhat difficult to navigate.
I am proposing a feature that allows users to collapse individual prompts and responses or entire threads of clarifying questions and answers. This feature could help in focusing on the main points of the discussion, making it easier to review and digest the information provided by ChatGPT. It would also contribute to a cleaner, more organized, and user-friendly interface, enhancing the overall user experience.
Hereâs how I envision it:
Collapsible Threads: Implement a button or icon next to each primary prompt. When clicked, this button would collapse or expand all the subsequent clarifying questions and answers related to that primary prompt.
Individual Collapse/Expand: Allow users to collapse or expand individual prompts and responses by clicking on them, providing more granular control over what parts of the chat are visible.
I believe these enhancements would significantly improve the readability and manageability of chats, especially during longer interactions. They would also provide users with more control over the chat interface, making it easier to focus on key information.
Thank you for considering my request. I am looking forward to any potential updates regarding this feature and am happy to provide further feedback or clarification if needed.
Yes! A thousand times, yes. This would be so useful. A big +1 here.
I requested this elsewhere myself as an addition to another userâs feature request for up/down navigation through chats (with arrows or keyboard shortcuts). That request is here: communityopenaicom/t/navigation-button-for-previous-responses-disappears-after-regeneration-request-gpt4/694819/2?u=afinetooth.
As I said there about any potential EXPAND / COLLAPSE functionality, Gmail is an excellent UI reference for this: the way their toggle element will fully expand one email thread, or fully condense it into one line per message.
IMHO, PROMPTS and RESPONSES are pretty good analogues of threaded email messages, though, since PROMPTS and RESPONSES are one-to-one / one-after-one, the collapsed state would be even cleaner that an email thread which has no 1-to-1 nature, especially with a slight color differentiation between PROMPT vs. RESPONSE.
Yeah, a single line for each collapsed PROMPT and RESPONSE would be perfect. And keyboard navigation between those, in their expanded or collapsed state, would be the icing on top for me.
Please make this a feature! The o1 responses are so long now that itâs very time consuming scrolling back up to the original prompts, nevermind being able to see all the previous prompts within a chat. Would be so helpful to collapse all answers, or even individually collapse them so you only keep relevant information visible.
I would like to request a UI feature that allows users to collapse or hide individual messages or message pairs inside a ChatGPT conversation, similar to âShow more / Show lessâ behavior in apps like Telegram, WhatsApp, or Instagram.
Many users frequently paste long content such as emails, logs, specifications, or reports. Once pasted, these blocks remain fully expanded and make long-running chats difficult to navigate, review, or maintain over time.
A few examples where this would be extremely helpful:
Temporarily hiding long pasted emails after they have been analyzed
Collapsing background or archival content while keeping conclusions visible
Reducing visual clutter in persistent, multi-day technical or project-related chats
This request is specifically about hiding or collapsing, not deleting or editing messages. The goal is improved readability and navigation without affecting conversation history or context.
Possible implementations could include:
Per-message âShow more / Show lessâ
Ability to hide selected messages
Collapsible blocks for long pasted content
Optional background or archived message state
This would significantly improve usability for power users who treat ChatGPT as a workspace for ongoing analysis, project tracking, or technical discussions.
