OpenAI adds editing of earlier messages in ChatGPT desktop app threads

OpenAI's Tibo says the ChatGPT desktop app now lets users edit previous messages within a thread, calling it a small quality-of-life improvement users had long requested.

Vaibhav Srivastav, also of OpenAI, says users can go back through a conversation, edit an earlier prompt, and resume from that point. He says the edit discards the messages and tool calls that follow the edited prompt so the model is not confused by them.

The reports do not say whether editing is available on platforms other than the desktop app.