Previous chat history not opening, until I quit cursor and re open

Support Bug Reports
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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Selecting any of the previous chats in cursor ide, they do not open.
The only way around this, is selecting the previous chat, then quitting cursoor completely, then re opening cursor will open the previously selected ted chat history

Steps to Reproduce

Click on the chat history button, and click on any of the previous chats

Expected Behavior

It should be opening the selected previous chat as it used to do in previous releases

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Operating System

MacOS

Version Information

Version: 2.6.11 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 8c95649f251a168cc4bb34c89531fae7db4bd990
Date: 2026-03-03T18:57:48.001Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.6.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 24.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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I got absolutely the same issue after the recent update

Version: 2.6.11 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 8c95649f251a168cc4bb34c89531fae7db4bd990
Date: 2026-03-03T18:57:48.001Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.6.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 25.3.0

4

facing the exact same issue but I see another update, just restated for update so fingers crossed

5

Didn’t helped

Version: 2.6.12 (Universal)

VSCode Version: 1.105.1

Commit: 1917e900a0c4b0111dc7975777cfff60853059d0

Date: 2026-03-04T21:41:18.914Z (10 hrs ago)

Build Type: Stable

Release Track: Early Access

Electron: 39.6.0

Chromium: 142.0.7444.265

Node.js: 22.22.0

V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0

OS: Darwin arm64 25.2.0

6

I have the same problem (seems to have started with 2.6.11)

Version: 2.6.11
VSCode Version: 1.105.1
Commit: 8c95649f251a168cc4bb34c89531fae7db4bd990
Date: 2026-03-03T18:57:48.001Z
Build Type: Stable
Release Track: Default
Electron: 39.6.0
Chromium: 142.0.7444.265
Node.js: 22.22.0
V8: 14.2.231.22-electron.0
OS: Darwin x64 24.6.0

7

Hey, thanks for the report. This is a known bug in 2.6.11. It’s related to the Editor Classic layout.

Workaround: click the double-arrow icon in the top-right corner of the chat panel to switch away from the Classic layout. After that, chat history should work normally.

More details in this thread: [2.6.11] Clicking On Chat in Chat History Not Working

The team is aware of the issue. Let me know if the workaround doesn’t help.

9

damnit

10

Thanks mate, this solved my issue…cheers

11

Thanks mate it worked. Legend!!!

12

Can’t believe I lost a full day-and-night with this, but glad to know this is a good place to find the shared solution, thanks (ALL)!

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