# LaTeX often doesn't render in MacOS app

**URL:** <https://community.openai.com/t/latex-often-doesnt-render-in-macos-app/1099574>\
**Category:** Bugs\
**Tags:** macos, latex\
**Created:** [January 23, 2025, 10:25am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/latex-often-doesnt-render-in-macos-app/1099574 "2025-01-23T10:25:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![d.i.mamedov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/d.i.mamedov/32/513095_2.png) [@d.i.mamedov](https://community.openai.com/u/d.i.mamedov)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 10:25am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/latex-often-doesnt-render-in-macos-app/1099574/1 "2025-01-23T10:25:33Z")

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I am a technical student and I often use o1 for help with my math/physics problems.

**Problem** : When o1 responds it often fails to render LaTeX and I am just left with the raw LaTeX code.  
This really bugs me, because I love the keyboard shortcut to pullup chatgpt anywhere on my OS, but this refrains me from using it since I mostly use chatgpt for stuff that require LaTeX.

Below I have attached a screenshot of the same chat side by side in the website version (left) and the macos version (right).

 ![Screenshot 2025-01-23 at 11.07.51](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/4/8/3/483429d2b3cc735565c437869b5ad87c67f03728.jpeg)

Reproducibility is easy since it basically happens any time the mac app tries to render LaTeX. This occurs in both the full mac app, and the pop-up version you get when you press option+space.

I tried looking if i could maybe spot a parsing error, so I copied the raw response from the website and tried looking for a pattern of where rendering would fail and when it wouldn’t, but I could find anything. I initially thought that it just fails at either inline/outline LaTeX, but it seems that it sometimes works and sometimes doesn’t on both.

Whilst doing this, I ran into another bug in the macos app, where if you use the copy response button in the macos app, it doesn’t copy whatever LaTeX rendered, but just the text surrounding it. So basically if the LaTeX works as expected, the copy button doesn’t work properly. I will submit another bug report for that after this one.

I am on chatgpt macos version 1.2025.009 (1737138094), but this issue has been around of a while.

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**Author:** ![arielmosquera015](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/47e85d/32.png) [@arielmosquera015](https://community.openai.com/u/arielmosquera015)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/latex-often-doesnt-render-in-macos-app/1099574/3 "2025-01-23T16:37:52Z")

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It looks like they finnaly fixed the bug, try to update to the latest version 1.2025.014

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**Author:** ![d.i.mamedov](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/d.i.mamedov/32/513095_2.png) [@d.i.mamedov](https://community.openai.com/u/d.i.mamedov)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 5:56pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/latex-often-doesnt-render-in-macos-app/1099574/4 "2025-01-23T17:56:44Z")

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Wow yeah that was quick, when I open the same chat the rendering is almost working perfectly. There are still a few snippets that don’t render and I will copy and paste them below here for if a developer might find it.

The following snippets still do not render on 1.2025.014 (1737150122):

```auto
\[
\underbrace{\frac{\cos(x)}{\sin(y)}}{\tilde M}\,dx
\;+\;\underbrace{\Bigl(\frac{\cos(y)}{\sin(y)} \;-\;\frac{\cos(y)\,\sin(x)}{\sin^2(y)}\Bigr)}{\tilde N}\,dy
\;=\;0.
\]

```

```auto
\[
\frac{dy}{y} \;=\; -\,x\,dx
\quad\Longrightarrow\quad
\ln\lvert y\rvert \;=\; -\,\frac{x^2}{2} + C
\quad\Longrightarrow\quad
y_h(x) \;=\; K\,e^{-x^2/2}
\]

```

```auto
\[
K \;+\;\tfrac12
\;=\; e^{1/2}
\quad\Longrightarrow\quad
K \;=\; e^{1/2} \;-\;\tfrac12.
\]

```

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**Author:** ![RobnGG](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/robngg/32/549280_2.png) [@RobnGG](https://community.openai.com/u/RobnGG)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 11:07pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/latex-often-doesnt-render-in-macos-app/1099574/5 "2025-03-30T23:07:16Z")

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This issue is still not fixed 1.2025.078  
Web on left, Mac on right.

 ![CleanShot 2025-03-30 at 18.06.03@2x](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/f/c/6/fc671242294475176afdd9cc1ce814e0d539c80e.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![vfiszbin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/vfiszbin/32/448730_2.png) [@vfiszbin](https://community.openai.com/u/vfiszbin)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 7:31am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/latex-often-doesnt-render-in-macos-app/1099574/6 "2025-04-06T07:31:32Z")

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I still have the same issue 1.2025.084.  
It is very common that some equations (not all) don’t render properly.

Web left, MacOS App right:

 ![c](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/5/f/3/5f33dab693346151cf0ffdf0351b836cd0f0036d.png)

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**Author:** ![hnfd5swt64](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/hnfd5swt64/32/458157_2.png) [@hnfd5swt64](https://community.openai.com/u/hnfd5swt64)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2025, 4:51am UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/latex-often-doesnt-render-in-macos-app/1099574/7 "2025-04-18T04:51:38Z")

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Updating to the latest doesn’t fix this issue. Most common on o4 mini high

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**Author:** ![hnfd5swt64](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/hnfd5swt64/32/458157_2.png) [@hnfd5swt64](https://community.openai.com/u/hnfd5swt64)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/latex-often-doesnt-render-in-macos-app/1099574/9 "2025-04-23T19:37:32Z")

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![Screenshot 2025-04-23 at 14.25.36](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/f/3/4/f349101e427bf58eae71c0d2508e8a0d6f4d8aac.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![BigButtBandit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@BigButtBandit](https://community.openai.com/u/BigButtBandit)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2025, 5:07pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/latex-often-doesnt-render-in-macos-app/1099574/10 "2025-04-26T17:07:51Z")

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Seeing exactly what @hnfd5swt64 described on the same version. Seeing it on iOS 1.2025.105 as well.

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**Author:** ![nikolajlapkovskij228](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/user_avatar/community.openai.com/nikolajlapkovskij228/32/548470_2.png) [@nikolajlapkovskij228](https://community.openai.com/u/nikolajlapkovskij228)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://community.openai.com/t/latex-often-doesnt-render-in-macos-app/1099574/11 "2025-05-07T15:52:47Z")

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Still persistent on macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 (24E263)

 ![Screenshot 2025-05-07 at 18.19.05](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/openai1/original/4X/9/6/e/96e34985b00e88dc8b7fc618709283ad442b4db4.png)