# The chat closes when you click on the chat icon

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/the-chat-closes-when-you-click-on-the-chat-icon/128653>\
**Category:** Bug Reports\
**Created:** [August 12, 2025, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/the-chat-closes-when-you-click-on-the-chat-icon/128653 "2025-08-12T05:58:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![Rsay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/rsay/32/30884_2.png) [@Rsay](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Rsay)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 5:58am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/the-chat-closes-when-you-click-on-the-chat-icon/128653/1 "2025-08-12T05:58:00Z")

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### Describe the Bug

The chat closes on an additional sidebar when you click on the chat icon

### Steps to Reproduce

1. Open the additional sidebar
2. Add chat to the additional sidebar
3. Click on the chat icon

### Expected Behavior

Clicking on the chat icon on the additional sidebar opens the chat

### Screenshots / Screen Recordings

### Operating System

Windows 10/11

### Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.4.3 (user setup)  
VSCode Version: 1.99.3  
Commit: e50823e9ded15fddfd743c7122b4724130c25df0  
Date: 2025-08-08T17:34:53.060Z  
Electron: 34.5.1  
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210  
Node.js: 20.19.0  
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0  
OS: Windows\_NT x64 10.0.26100

### Additional Information

When you zoom in on the interface, you can see that the close icon overlaps the chat icon

### Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

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**Author:** ![deanrie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/deanrie/32/1263_2.png) [@deanrie](https://forum.cursor.com/u/deanrie)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 6:42am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/the-chat-closes-when-you-click-on-the-chat-icon/128653/2 "2025-08-12T06:42:36Z")

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Hey, since you have show icons enabled on the sidebar, when you click the chat icon there’s a close (X) button for the chat. If you hover over the icon, you’ll be able to see it.

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**Author:** ![Rsay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/rsay/32/30884_2.png) [@Rsay](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Rsay)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2025, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/the-chat-closes-when-you-click-on-the-chat-icon/128653/3 "2025-08-12T07:01:17Z")

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The problem is that if I click on the chat icon without aiming, 99% of the time, I close it instead of opening it. So I have to aim with the mouse to open the tab instead of just clicking quickly.

By the way, I didn’t turn on the icons intentionally; they somehow replaced the text themselves (perhaps the old configurations from VS Code were reinstated when Cursor was updated).  
When the icons appeared, I thought it was a cool update because the text never fit, and only part of the tabs were visible, while the rest had to be searched for in the drop-down list. Then, when the text fade-out effect was added, even the text stopped displaying, except for the first few letters.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2025, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/the-chat-closes-when-you-click-on-the-chat-icon/128653/4 "2025-09-03T07:01:46Z")

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Closed on September 3, 2025, 7:01am UTC

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