[BUG]

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What's Wrong?

Bug: Modal dialogs and prompts overlay Claude's responses, making them unreadable
Environment:
OS: macOS
Claude Code Desktop version: Latest (updated May 13, 2026)
Description:
The Desktop app has a critical UI rendering issue where modal dialogs and the user's last prompt remain fixed on top of Claude's streaming output, completely obscuring the response text. This makes it impossible to read Claude's answers before making decisions.
Steps to reproduce:

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<img width="1054" height="902" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1f5f33a8-de89-484a-9d38-18954103a0d0" />

Send a prompt that triggers a modal dialog with multiple choice options
Observe that the modal overlays Claude's response text
Try scrolling up/down - the overlay persists
Try Ctrl+L to redraw - no effect
Expected behavior:
Modal dialogs should appear below or alongside Claude's response, or the response should be fully visible before presenting decision options.
Actual behavior:
User's last prompt stays pinned on top of output
Modal dialogs cover the response text that users need to read before choosing options
Scrolling doesn't resolve the overlap
Ctrl+L has no effect
Workaround:
Sending a one-word prompt and pressing Esc immediately allows reading the response, but this is impractical for normal use.
Screenshots:
[Attach the two screenshots showing the overlay issue]

What Should Happen?

The old prompts should not float over Claudes output and cover most of the screen

Error Messages/Logs

No error log acailable, it is a bug in Desktop GUI

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a long prompt, wait until Claude answers
2. create another long prompt to Claude's answer.
3. try scrolling.

I expwrience it in long working sessions.

Claude Model

None

Is this a regression?

Yes, this worked in a previous version

Last Working Version

bevor 11th of May

Claude Code Version

2.1.119 (Claude Code)

Platform

Anthropic API

Operating System

macOS

Terminal/Shell

Terminal.app (macOS)

Additional Information

_No response_