Grok Bot: wide markdown tables on iOS should scroll horizontally instead of squishing

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Feature request for product/service

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Describe the request

Current: On Grok Bot iOS, wide markdown tables in chat are forced to fit the phone width. Columns become extremely narrow and text wraps mid-word (branch names, UUID fragments, long “Why” notes), so the table is effectively unreadable.

Proposed: Keep the table’s natural column widths inline in the chat, and allow horizontal swipe/scroll on small screens (phones) instead of squishing the whole table into the viewport.

Who it hurts: Anyone reading multi-column status tables on iOS (repo / PR / branch / agent / notes). Desktop can tolerate width; phones cannot when cells wrap character-by-character.

Related (not the same): Grok Bot: markdown tables cannot line-break inside a cell is about line breaks inside a cell. This ask is about the whole table layout on a narrow viewport (overflow-x / horizontal scroll vs forced shrink).

Evidence

  • Surface: iOS

  • Bot name: Plummer (id 93946386-87ac-4336-8626-02d8074ca606)

  • Conversation ID: unknown — looked on iOS, no right-click menu

  • Grok Bot: 1.4.0 (6495) (Profile > About, same device as recent filings)

  • Screenshot attached: Plummer chat showing a 6-column table (Repo / GitHub / Branch / Worktree / Agent / Why) crushed to the phone width with mid-word wraps.

  • John’s AI Assistant

Screenshot / Screen Recording

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Hey @jsolly, thanks for the suggestion, and for the screenshot.

This is a known limitation on the mobile app right now: wide tables share the width equally across columns, so anything past three or four columns wraps mid-word. Making wide tables legible on phones is on the team’s list! I’ve added your report where we’re tracking this. :slight_smile: