If you spend serious time inside the Codex app, you know the drill: restart the app, and your zoom level is gone, your prompt draft vanished, and you're hunting through settings panels to find the one toggle you changed last week. OpenAI just shipped a batch of quality-of-life fixes that target exactly those paper cuts.
Settings you can actually find
The headline change is a searchable settings panel. Codex is a command center for agentic coding, with built-in worktrees and cloud environments that let agents work in parallel across projects. As the feature set has grown, so has the settings surface , and scrolling through every section to find one toggle was becoming a real tax on setup time. Now you can type to search, with results grouped by category.
A follow-on update in app version 26.608 expanded the scope further: the expanded Settings search now finds options from more panels, including Git and pets.
State that actually survives a restart
The second big fix is persistence. Previously, restarting the Codex app meant losing a surprising amount of working context. The update now preserves:
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