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What variant of Codex are you using?

App / Codex Mobile through the ChatGPT mobile app, connected to Codex Desktop / Remote Control.

What happened?

Codex Mobile does not show all projects that are visible in Codex Desktop. Logging out and back into the ChatGPT mobile app refreshes the list, but the refreshed list still only appears to include projects that have recent chats/threads.

Projects that exist in Desktop Codex but do not have recent chats remain hidden on mobile.

Expected behavior

Codex Mobile should list all projects available to the connected Codex Desktop account/workspace/host, not only projects that happen to have recent thread activity.

Actual behavior

The mobile project list appears to be hydrated from a recent chats/threads feed instead of the full project inventory:

  1. Codex Desktop shows multiple projects.
  2. ChatGPT mobile app / Codex shows only a subset of those projects.
  3. Logging out and back into the mobile app makes some missing projects appear.
  4. The projects that appear after login are the ones with recent chats.
  5. Projects without recent chats remain missing from the mobile project list.

Why this seems related to existing issues

This looks closely related to #18640, where the Desktop sidebar/project history appears to depend on a global recent thread/list page rather than project-scoped loading. The mobile behavior seems like the same class of bug, but from the Codex Mobile project selector: project visibility appears coupled to recent thread presence.

It may also be adjacent to #22748, but this is not just about pinned projects/threads. The affected projects exist in Codex Desktop and should be selectable on mobile even when they do not have recent chat activity.

Workarounds observed

  • Logging out and back into the ChatGPT mobile app can refresh the visible list, but only for projects with recent chats.
  • Creating/opening a recent chat in a previously missing project may make that project eligible to appear on mobile.

Additional information

I can provide screenshots/app versions if helpful. The most important repro detail is that mobile visibility seems correlated with recent chat activity, not with whether the project exists in Desktop Codex.

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Codex Mobile should list all projects available to the connected Codex Desktop account/workspace/host, not only projects that happen to have recent thread activity.

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