My conversation stuck at stop button, can't continue, please help?!

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You literally just saved me, thank you kind soul!

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Everything was bricked for me including full logout, new browser, incognito tab, etc… but using the mobile version worked. Thanks!

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Same problem in Safari on Sequoia. I opened another chat which had the ‘send prompt’ arrow intact. Then I selected the arrow via right click and clicked “Inspect Element” (I think you need developer tools enabled). I copied the HTML (I think it is wrapped in a div) to the clipboard, then switched chats to the one with the stuck stop button. I inspected that one, and, in the HTML, deleted the associated div. Then I pasted in the div from the other chat. This replaced the stop button with the proper send button, but it wasn’t responding to clicks. Then I refreshed the browser window. When it refreshed, the proper send-prompt button was in place, and it responded to clicks as appropriate. Chat saved!

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This worked! and made sense to, because fiddling with it broke it in the first place. THANK YOU!

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One more case to register

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but it didn’t work for me tho

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Still happening in my account.

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super crazy solution , it’s 100 % worked

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Don’t know if anyone still has this issue. I randomly got it in one of my conversations, couldn’t progress with it, but since then, two more of my chats have gotten this bug. I actually accidentally found out the solution (because none of the solutions above worked for me), so if anyone else is having this issue, try this:

  • Reload the page a couple times (not sure if this is needed, but I did that, that’s why I’m mentioning it)
  • Choose a random message (I didn’t choose the last one, could possibly work with that too)
  • Edit it with something completely different. This is the most important thing because I tried to fix the ‘stuck at stop button’ by editing just a little detail in a message, like deleting a few words or changing the emojis, but it didn’t work.
    However, it worked when I changed the actual meaning of the message. I use ChatGPT to write stories, so for example if I wrote about a girl introducing her boyfriend to her friends, I edited the message so that she talks with her father instead. Or in another chat, instead of having the two main characters travel to another country, I sent them to McDonalds.

Not sure exactly why or how this works, but I hope it works for others as well. It’s worth a try in your own chat with your own versions of an edited message depending on the context.