Environment Surface: API / SDK / Playground / Platform Endpoint or feature: Model: SDK and version, if applicable: Bug Scrolling with UP and DOWN keyboard arrows is something that absolutely has to be fixed asap in ChatGPT. It used to work in previous versions and this is such an essential piece of UI experience when you want to slowly read the ChatGPT output line by line at your own speed of scrolling. Indispensable! Please reinstate it ASAP! Reproduction Minimal code, request, or steps to reproduce: Diagnostics Exact error and HTTP status: Request ID, if available: When it happened (with timezone) and how often:

Same problem here. Needs to be fixed quickly.

I may change to a different service just for this issue, i hope this gets solved soon has really lsowed down my processes

This is a frustrating new issue and does need to be fixed ASAP indeed. In the meantime, a workaround is this - just click on the “copy response” icon of the last reply or on the “copy” icon of a Chatgpt reply section that has plain text or hash, and you should then be able to scroll with your arrow keys. If you click inside the reply to type, you’ll need to click on the copy response button again to scroll. Still annoying, but way less cumbersome than using the mouse.

Lenova thinkpad on chrome, havent been able to use the up/down arrows for scrolling! Using pg up/down misses HUGE chunk of info! when will this get fixed? Its maddening!

pamdavis, are you able to scroll using the technique I’ve mentioned? Try it out and if it works, you can use it till they fix this issue, which will hopefully be soon.

fixed but now you have to refocus the input box with the mouse or by tabbing to it if you click outside of it… autofocus on text input is broken…

Hi everyone, it’s good to hear that arrow-key scrolling was working again for @CZAdmin and @0nnx on October 8. @0nnx also flagged needing to click or Tab back into the message box after clicking elsewhere. If you’re still seeing problems with arrow-key scrolling, a missing scrollbar or message-box focus, please share which behavior persists, whether you’re using the website or desktop app, and your browser/app version. For those using the website, does the same behavior occur in a private/incognito window? ~ Ziad

[Screenshot 2026-10-21 193603] [Screenshot 2026-10-21 193735] As you can see, the right scrollbar is getting hidden, and it is irritating. It is happening everywhere all the time. The only way I’m coping is by asking ChatGPT to write a Chrome extension to scroll. Please fix it.

Scrolling with keyboard UP and DOWN arrows

ChatGPT Bugs

dawson_43 September 30, 2026, 8:40am 2

It’s been an awful 2 days without the working UP / DOWN keyboard scroll. The side scroll bar has also disappeared, so I have to highlight the text and drag it down to scroll inside my conversation.

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Scrolling with keyboard UP and DOWN arrows

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