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Version: 1.7.0

Appearance

Full Appearance pane showing theme, text size, display options, and text editing

Adjust the app’s appearance, theme, and interface text size.

Open Settings → General → Appearance. Most choices apply app-wide and are saved for later launches. The screenshot shows example selections, not recommended defaults.

Theme​

Theme selector with System, Light, and Dark choices

Choose System to follow macOS appearance, or Light or Dark to keep a specific color scheme. The selected theme is applied when you change it.

Text Size​

Text Size selector with Normal, Large, and Extra Large choices

Normal, Large, and Extra Large set the app's global text-size preset. You can also step through these presets with the font-size controls in Keyboard Shortcuts.

Changes normally apply immediately. During a response that freezes text scaling to keep the streaming layout stable, the new size is held until scaling is unfrozen.

Display Options​

Display Options with collapse file changes, tooltips, and timestamp date switches

  • Always Collapse File Changes keeps file-change displays collapsed, reducing rendering work for very large generations.
  • Show Tooltips enables the app's hover explanations.
  • Show dates in message timestamps adds labels such as Yesterday, a weekday, or a date to message and tool timestamps.

These settings change presentation; collapsing file changes does not undo edits.

Text Editing​

Text Editing with spell checking, Compact or Expanded file picker style, and experimental mention menu

Enable Spell Checking in Instructions checks spelling in the instructions text area.

@ File Picker Style changes the density of file-mention suggestions: Compact or Expanded. Enable @-Mention Menu (Experimental) enables file suggestions when typing @ in the Compose prompt editor. Picker style and enabling the experimental menu are separate controls.