Terminal in cursor ide goes black and cant be used anymore

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

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

Terminal in the IDE goes black completely and I cant use it anymore. I cant open new terminals as well. All that i can do is use cmd+K to open the chat in the terminal. It seems like cursor is transforming the terminal into a chat. I have not found anything in the internet regarding this. I dont know if there is an easy way to avoid this or revert the settings. For now i always had to close cursor and reopen it again to have the terminal control back.

Steps to Reproduce

open cursor
cursor has permission to the terminal
ask mode in cursor

Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.6.45
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 3ccce8f55d8cca49f6d28b491a844c699b8719a0
Date: 2025-09-22T18:22:38.013Z (2 days ago)
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

Sometimes - I can sometimes use Cursor

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Hey, thanks for the report. The issue might be related to rendering, but I can’t reproduce it. Could you try reinstalling Cursor? That should help. Here’s some info on that:

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