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New update loses Token Usage monitoring #23862
Description
What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?
26.519.21041
What subscription do you have?
Pro Plan
What platform is your computer?
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.26200.0 x64
What issue are you seeing?
Not sure if bug or intentional because I didn't see it mentioned in the update notes, but the Token Usage at the bottom of the chat input on the Codex desktop app no longer has the Token Usage icon and information that was next to the Intelligence and Model dropdown. That was incredibly useful to be able to track token usage for tasks. I also used it quite often to notify chats when they could expect an auto-compaction approaching and to prepare for that using checkpoints in order to re-anchor and continue work without problems.
What steps can reproduce the bug?
No steps, just missing this information or feature not being present on the text input now that I did the update.
What is the expected behavior?
I expected it to be there. Now there is no direct way to monitor token usage. That was the easiest most user friendly way to monitor that. Very useful and now it's missing.
Additional information
If this was intentional, I ask that you all bring this back because it was incredibly useful for us. Please consider bringing this back ASAP.
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github-actions commentedon May 21, 2026
Potential duplicates detected. Please review them and close your issue if it is a duplicate.
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eah3699 commentedon May 21, 2026
Yes you are correct. That is a duplicate. Closing issue now. Thank you.
gomisha commentedon May 25, 2026
Once activated, the
/statuspanel keeps displaying the context window at all times for new and existing threads, not just on demand.I activate it by typing
/statusand then selecting theStatus Toggle Context Usageoverlay popup.Once it's activated, it stays on all the time for the current and future threads: