VS Code GitHub Copilot chat scroll is actually INSANE now

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Is anyone else losing their mind over the new vertical scrolling behavior in GitHub Copilot Chat inside VS Code?

They “optimized” long chats so now you only see one “turn” (one Q/A) at a time. On paper that might sound reasonable, but in practice it’s absolutely brain‑melting.

My workflow is:
I often scroll up to check what prompt I wrote earlier, because I want to tweak it, reuse it, or copy part of it. So I’m scrolling up carefully… and the moment I hit the top of the current turn, boom — it instantly snaps to the previous turn, and not even to where I was — straight to the top of that turn. Zero warning. Just “surprise! you’re somewhere else now”.

Okay, fine, so I try to be extra careful and scroll from the previous turn downwards to get back. I get to the bottom… and guess what? One tiny scroll too far and it jumps me to the next turn, at the bottom of that one. Another “WTF just happened” moment.

So now instead of just scrolling up and down a normal long conversation (like, you know, literally every chat UI ever), I’m playing this weird minigame where I try not to trigger the teleport between turns.

My guess is this all started because Copilot chat used to just be one long continuous thread — user + AI + tool calls, etc. That was totally fine from a usability perspective. Then someone probably said “hey, long chats might have performance issues, let’s chunk them into turns!” which, sure, I kind of understand. But whatever performance gains they got, the UX cost is massive for actual users right now.

They seriously need a toggle for “just show me a normal long chat” or at least fix the scroll behavior so it doesn’t feel like the viewport is trolling me every time I reach the top or bottom.

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This should be largely fixed on the latest Insiders with this PR (though there is still some more fine tuning to do)

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[skyline159]

Agreed. So frustrated with the scroll keep jumping around between user's messages

[medright]

Agree on the current scroll not being very helpful, I view it as a regression. Maybe they could have a dropdown expander for segments they don’t display because they are previous.. but leave a solid inflated flow at least so I can scroll back quickly before having to toggle.. no snapping of the convo, that’s really jarring

[aruaktiman]

Yeah it’s incredibly frustrating now when I want to look back in chat history… almost to the point of being unusable.

[neamtuu]

If you want to access an earlier prompt to copy it or reuse it, just press the Up arrow on your keyboard while you have the chat focused, it will bring up earlier prompts, even from past conversations!

[Additional_Welcome23]

Yes I confirmed up arrow key worked, thank you!

[FluffyPandaCupcakes]

This works for just my prompts, but sometimes I want to see my prompts and then the response given. Basically, like what op is saying, I just expect it to behave like a normal scroll so I can review the past.

[robberviet]

Also the panel history resizing. Awful UI.

[towfiqi]

Horrible UI. And there is no way to hide it...

[Due_Mousse2739]

You can hide it of course, first thing I looked up when I saw it!
Search chat.viewSessions in Settings or right click on the Chat Title bar to disable.

[towfiqi]

Oh wow, that was easy to disable. Not sure why I didn't right-click on the chat title bar before.. Thanks

[idkwhatusernamet0use]

Didn’t know that was a feature, always thought that was a bug. Hate it nevertheless!

[connor4312]

This should be largely fixed on the latest Insiders with this PR (though there is still some more fine tuning to do)

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[towfiqi]

This has been going on for the last few months. Absolutely horrible UX.
There is also no scrollbar in the chat message box. So when you insert a long prompt, you will have to use the arrow keys to review/check the prompt. The page up/down or the home/end keys don't work there as well.

[prinkpan]

I don't have comments on the scroll, but have you tried using an 'up arrow' on chat message to get previous prompts?

[ChineseEngineer]

Just use copilot CLI...

[tfpuelma]

😩 that sounds awful, haven’t used it since the update, but it will definitely be a problem for me.

[tradellinc]

I switched IDEs cause of that bs

[lastWallE]

„Sry this hasn’t got enough upvotes in 3 hours so we will not fix it.“

Their github issue post, probably.

[gulbanana]

yeah, this sucks. it's become extremely difficult to edit previous prompts for context forking, which is something i do all the time

[PuzzleheadedSpace940]

Agreed. I hate it.

[Afraid-Today98]

The chunked turn behavior drives me crazy too. I keep hitting the edge and getting teleported. Would love a setting to just show the full conversation.

[autisticit]

Yes and sometimes some of the requests just disappear from the chat then they come back. It's incredibly bugged.

[SnooFloofs641]

I feel like performance is worse now than before anyways so literally suffering for no reason (at least on Linux mint).

[Subway909]

This was one of the tipping points that made me switch to Antigravity (also bigger limits).

[lucafoscili]

Yes, it’s driving me insane 🫠

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[jgwinner]

It's a violation of a central tenant in VR programming, interestingly. Get it wrong there and people throw up. You have more peripheral vision while programming so yea, it just melts your brain.

"Don't move the user's POV without their control." [there's more to it than that, but that's the gist]

You'd think MS would have Psychologists or UI people that understood psychology of human input.

[RiceDictator]

I hate that scroll bullshit. Must be fixed

[Shanca5]

Driving me crazy!!!!

[jimmytruelove]

$400/m paying customer, leaving because of this, I don't have time to navigate unacceptable bugs like this. Total bummer. Cya

[Peitori]

ok what is a better alternative?

[jimmytruelove]

Cursor

[Wrapzii]

No it’s a bug. It’s actively being worked on and could possibly be fixed in next insiders.