# Chat Tabs not displaying on OSX

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/chat-tabs-not-displaying-on-osx/73331>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [April 1, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/chat-tabs-not-displaying-on-osx/73331 "2025-04-01T00:04:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![henrygeddes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/henrygeddes/32/4901_2.png) [@henrygeddes](https://forum.cursor.com/u/henrygeddes)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/chat-tabs-not-displaying-on-osx/73331/1 "2025-04-01T00:04:17Z")

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I suspect it’s an issue with my VSCode settings; I saw another comment mentioning “Activity Bar: Location” must be set to default, however didn’t work for me.

Cursor Version

 ![Screenshot 2025-04-01 at 12.59.53 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/f/0/f0beeeb739b1bccd0a38014be46b70369921d722.jpeg)

Edit: Version Text

```auto
Version: 0.48.6
VSCode Version: 1.96.2
Commit: 1649e229afdef8fd1d18ea173f063563f1e722e0
Date: 2025-03-31T04:59:09.581Z
Electron: 34.3.4
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.18.3
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 23.4.0

```

Activity Bar Settings + Initial state (with a chat window open and active)

 ![Screenshot 2025-04-01 at 1.00.47 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/f/6/f6347cac194f2106baa5520938934aa1f289eb47.png)

Error state (after clicking new tab button):

 ![Screenshot 2025-04-01 at 1.01.38 PM](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/original/3X/f/a/fa7b581a6a6466a92e638f7fcd87439a48605c7d.png)

Bug: No chat tabs are shown, previous chat only accessible via “Past Chats” (like previous version).

This behavior is persistent across restart/reboot and happens regardless of how a new tab is opened (e.g. button click/keyboard shortcut etc)

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**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\
**Post date:** [April 1, 2025, 7:12am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/chat-tabs-not-displaying-on-osx/73331/2 "2025-04-01T07:12:40Z")

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Hey, what if you try creating a new tab using the shortcut `Cmd + T`?

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**Author:** ![henrygeddes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/henrygeddes/32/4901_2.png) [@henrygeddes](https://forum.cursor.com/u/henrygeddes)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/chat-tabs-not-displaying-on-osx/73331/3 "2025-04-02T12:56:05Z")

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Just opens a new chat (with no tabs displaying, same behavior as pre-update).

I reckon it’s probably a local environment/config issue as I haven’t seen other people with the same issue, so I’m happy to tinker around with this (aka no stress RE this bug report ;p)

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2025, 12:56pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/chat-tabs-not-displaying-on-osx/73331/4 "2025-05-02T12:56:10Z")

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Closed on May 2, 2025, 12:56pm UTC

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