"close chat" button is missing again

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

I just upgraded from 1.5 to 1.7, and instantly found “close chat” in AI pane is missing

I found there was a fix for this, so I believe this is a bug

It’s really inconvenient, hope this can be fixed soon

Steps to Reproduce

Just open the AI pane, you will find the button missing

Expected Behavior

the “X” (“close pane”) button should be there

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

Windows 10/11

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.7.28 (system setup)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: adb0f9e3e4f184bba7f3fa6dbfd72ad0ebb8cfd0
Date: 2025-10-01T02:45:21.769Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Windows_NT x64 10.0.22631

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

Hey, yes, that button was removed, and you can hide and show the panel by clicking the cursor icon at the top of the window.

Hi, Thanks for the reply.

Yes, I know it’s one way to close the pane, but to me it’s an anti-human design.

Opening and closing left(primary) & right(AI) pane are very heavily used operation when I want to focus on different block. Now I need to pay additional thought when closing just because the design is different from all other Windows UI. Yes, it works but absolutely not the way I expect.

And for left panel I have one thing to complain too, why bother add this message if you already know that when user click on opened tab, the intent is to close the pane?

I would highly suggest that let user decide whether to hide the button by config, instead of forcing user to accept.

The experience in Cursor is getting worse upon every version update, I hope you won’t forget this is an IDE when you are rolling out those fancy features.

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