It is missing on a fresh install on my desktop
Interestingly it works on my laptop on an install I made just a few days ago.
Ok I think I have a hint as to what’s going on. I tried Agent mode, and it initially failed, but then found out that it’s trying to use the file from the wrong location.
This made me think it’s related to the fact that this is a standalone file and I don’t have a codebase folder active:
After adding the folder (Open Folder, or add folder to workspace) it works:
@danperks I believe I found the root cause. It would be great if we can allow using composer with standalone files. Thank you!
@madcowswe Thanks so much! This fixed it for me.
Ah, that makes sense! Not sure how much support we have for just applying to a standalone file when you don’t have the folder open!
Not fixed in 0.48, still no ‘apply’ button: Cursor chat not showing 'apply' option
Sometimes it shows, but often it doesn’t show, making cursor 0.48 effectively unusable again. So far I sticked with 0.45 but you guys disabled some things in the backend, forcing me to update to the 0.48 version.
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Just updated this morning and not only is the apply button now missing, I cant even copy the text form the suggestion window..
Never had this issue before
the mouse just becomes the finger…
Cursor is starting to become a bit of a time sink..
#metoo. This has not been solved, and happens at least 30% of the time.
In a separate topic it suggests that saying “give me code that i can apply” as a fix. Cursor should instead always allow me to click Apply.
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This has been getting worse and worse, the apply button nowhere to be seen. Why is this report closed?
It’s been working fine for a while, but today it started happening again, particularly when I receive more than one code block in the response
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when apply button is missing, sometimes the code is not even selectable so can’t copy paste
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same.
specially GPT-5 in manual edit (custom mode) wont offer the possibility to apply changes… (but Gemini output always allows to apply changes)
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This is such a frustrating bug. I keep getting into arguments with it about whether there’s an apply button or not, because it’s determined there is, and there isn’t. It makes it unusable as an IDE assistant.
I am facing the same issue. This is bug pretty much renders Cursor useless. I am being forced to use agent mode due to this bug and unfortunately almost always makes a simple thing complicated and wastes like a ton of compute and tokens.
The whole point of me paying for and using cursor was the apply button in the ask mode. If this is not fixed, I would be forced to look at alternartives
Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?
Cursor IDE
Describe the Bug
Love the product, but recently it’s absolutely broken. I’m on Macbook Air 25, on the latest version of Cursor. I like to use Ask mode, as Agent mode will spit out a lot of useless code, and I spend more time deleting code than actually coding.
When I use Ask mode, the apply changes option doesn’t appear, so i have to manually copy and paste code. It sometimes used to work to start a new chat, now not even after a couple of messages, it’s always broken. The copy to clipboard functionality doesn’t even work sometimes (copying generated code, or code from my project into the chat box).
I get the new features, and need to compete with the others guys. But if this core feature doesn’t work, it’s useless. Hope you fix this soon because I love cursor, and it’s completely changed my life. But if it doesn’t I’ll have to switch to Windsurf
Steps to Reproduce
Use ask mode - the generated code shows only cc, instead of the full options
Expected Behavior
The apply changes should appear in the generated code
The chat input should allow to add context and paste code and stuff in
Screenshots / Screen Recordings
Operating System
MacOS
Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)
Version: 1.7.44 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 9d178a4■■■89981b62546448bb32920a8219a5d0
Date: 2025-10-10T15:43:37.500Z (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 24.3.0
For AI issues: which model did you use?
Sonnet 4.5
For AI issues: add Request ID with privacy disabled
42ffc17e-ba08-43af-8f89-a83b4c2165e6
Does this stop you from using Cursor
Yes - Cursor is unusable
Same thing for me. Ask is broken
What fixed my issue is telling the chat agent to use the right tools for code generation, this seems to have fixed my problem…at least for the last couple of days.
Can you please explain this a little further by giving an example of how you fixed it?
Just violently telling it to review it’s own internal tools and use the right one to generate code fixes the issue (in my case)
Thanks. That seems to work for me too. I told it to make sure to put the apply button in
After chatting with the model about what is available to it and testing a few different formatting options it gave me, the format of the markdown language:filepath seems to be the most consistent. The real issue I am facing is that instead of editing snippets of the file this tool now wants to diff the entire file which on my slightly older machine causes a serious lag when I do press the apply button. It used to be that it would only diff the lines it is changing, but I am not sure why this was removed.