Desktop app: custom sidebar session groupings vanished after update (sessions intact, grouping gone)

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Activity 2 comments · opened Jul 19, 2026

Environment: Claude for Mac, version 1.22209.3 (babe11), macOS (Darwin 23.6.0).

Summary: After a recent app update, my two custom sidebar session groupings — "Travel Sites" and "Tungsten Sites" — no longer appear. All sessions are still present and openable, but they're now flattened into a single ungrouped list.

This is not a rename. The grouping feature did not move to "Folders" or "Projects." There are no folder chips and no group headers — the grouping is simply gone from the UI.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Have custom session groups in the sidebar.
  2. Update the desktop app to 1.22209.3.
  3. Open the sidebar — previously-created session groups are absent.

Expected: Custom session groupings persist across app updates.

Actual: Groupings are gone; 50+ sessions are now unorganized in a flat list.

Impact: Loss of organization across a large number of active sessions. Underlying session data appears intact (all sessions still open and run normally) — this is a UI / persisted-grouping regression, not data loss.

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