Cannot search for / open a previous session from within the Claude Code app
Open 💬 0 comments Opened Jun 22, 2026 by benjilash
What I expected
From the Claude Code app I should be able to search my past sessions (by title or content) and open the matching one directly.
What happens
There's no user-facing way to search for and open a previous session in the app. The underlying capability clearly exists - when I asked the assistant to find a past chat, it located the exact session by full-text search and returned its title, ID, and a snippet - but as a user I can't run that search myself, and the assistant has no tool to switch/open the session in the UI. I'm left to scroll the sessions list and find it by eye.
Suggested fix
- A session search box in the app (full-text across session transcripts + title).
- Click a result to open/switch to that session.
Environment
- Platform: Windows 11, Claude Code desktop app
- Model: Opus 4.8