macOS: clicking the ChatGPT Dock icon opens a Quit-only menu instead of focusing the main window

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

26.901.20858 (build 7658)

What subscription do you have?

ChatGPT Plus

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 24.6.0 x86_64 i386 macOS 15.7.9 (24G830), Intel Mac

What issue are you seeing?

When ChatGPT is already running, both left-clicking and right-clicking its icon in the macOS Dock display a menu containing only “Quit ChatGPT”.

Left-clicking the Dock icon does not activate, restore, or bring the main ChatGPT window to the foreground. The main window is still alive and can be activated successfully by running:

open -a ChatGPT

Therefore, the application window and activation handler appear to work. The problem seems specific to the interaction between the macOS Dock tile and ChatGPT.

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Feedback ID: 01a065da-9e3a-7511-9927-151844595158

1. Launch the ChatGPT desktop app and open its main window.
2. Switch to another application or another macOS desktop/Space.
3. Left-click the running ChatGPT icon in the Dock.
4. Observe that a menu containing only “Quit ChatGPT” appears.
5. The main ChatGPT window is not activated or brought to the foreground.
6. Right-clicking the icon displays the same Quit-only menu.

The issue is reproducible every time.

Running open -a ChatGPT correctly activates and focuses the existing main window.

What is the expected behavior?

Left-clicking the running ChatGPT icon in the Dock should activate the application and restore, show, and focus its last active main window.

Right-clicking may open a context menu, but left-clicking should not open the Quit-only menu.

Additional information

Troubleshooting already attempted:

• Completely quit and restart ChatGPT.
• Reinstall and replace /Applications/ChatGPT.app.
• Run killall Dock, then reopen ChatGPT.
• Switch between the ChatGPT and Codex Dock icons under Settings > General > Appearance.
• The issue persists after all of the above.

The problem appeared after the application updated from build 7524 to build 7658.

Relevant redacted macOS Dock log messages:

• Launch notification lack value for foreground type key
• Did not find tile from bookmark
• The Dock loads com.apple.dock.external.extra.x86_64

The app bundle declares CodexDockTilePlugin through NSDockTilePlugIn. This may be an x86_64/Intel macOS Dock Tile integration issue.

Start by reproducing the Dock behavior on the reported Intel macOS setup and compare it with open -a ChatGPT, which correctly focuses the existing window. Inspect the app bundle's NSDockTilePlugIn declaration and the CodexDockTilePlugin integration; done means left-clicking the running Dock icon activates and focuses the main window instead of showing only Quit.