My initial thread “filled up” and I did what is suggested and hit continue in a new chat. Wouldn’t you know it, eleven prompts later the same message appears about the chat memory being full. What is the point of this besides to get someone to upgrade? This is not making me want to give you my money. If anything, it’s annoying me to the point where I question why I still use it
This has happened to me too
Yes this happened to me as well after investigating this what I think is a glitch in the system as many people have reported same thing small chats still hitting this hard wall and the interesting thing is that this didn’t happen before it would say that ChatGPT might start to forget past thing not just hard stop the chat especially in very small chats like not even 10 to 20 message chats. So looking at all of that and the reddit post this might be a glitch and like we should get OpenAI to recognized this faster!!
This is abysmal. Bring back the old free tier, I don’t want this new “unlimited” free chat with GPT-5.6 Luna. Make it simply forget stuff in long chats, limit me after some chatting, and stop making me want to clutter my list of conversations with “summaries” of chats. Like how it used to be before.
I agree the last forgetting system was better
Hi @jamillahrasheed,
I can see how annoying it is to hit the limit again so soon after moving to a new chat.
It depends on how much content is in the conversation, rather than just the number of messages. Longer prompts and replies take up more space, so even a few exchanges can add up. There’s more on this in this doc.
Could you share the exact warning you’re seeing, whether you’re using the browser or app, and your model and ChatGPT plan? That’ll help me understand what’s happening.
If anyone else is seeing the same message, feel free to share those details here too. Please don’t share any private information here.
-Yash
its the same with context memory full. It’s been completely blocking all my chats for more use and its really annoying. Please get this fixed. Everyone has been dealing with it for a while.
This or “context window full” is happening ALL THE TIME in every chat super soon and it’s been getting reported nonstop for the last month as far as I have seen! It’s not normal that this is happening only now after months or even years of using ChatGPT.
If it’s intentional just say that outright (and eventually say goodbye to most free users and even some paid ones who are seeing these messages for some reason), if it’s a bug/issue fix it.
Couldn’t agree more. I didn’t mind if ChatGPT forgot details in long conversations, it’s a tool, it’s going to have limitations and that’s fine, and I would rather deal with that than getting locked out of a chat after an unspecified number of prompts.
Guys, there’s much more wrong with ChatGPT than this, not alone memory full. The question should be this memory, is it even memory cause it’s not. I’ve studied it for 18 months straight, deep dove into it. Last year I solved it, and I’ve continued to study it. I built a system that it never forgets. It always remembers, and you never have to repeat yourself. I don’t know how one guy does this, and ChatGPT still can’t figure it out. I even contacted them about it. I gave them my documentation. I showed them my system I proof. They gave me a test to do. I did the test. It passed perfect. And guess what? They told me they weren’t interested in solving the problem, so I don’t think it’s gonna change guys. If you want, you’re more than welcome to sign up on my app, totally free. And I’ll even upgrade everybody’s account to a pro account. And by the way, it uses ChatGPT. I don’t know why they can’t fix it when I solved it over a year ago. I gave it perfect memory and we’ve done over 10,000 tests and it does it verbatim and context window and memory never get full
This limit is completely irrational and just punishes people with long workflows. Acknowledge the problem and fix it.