[BUG] Desktop app: clicking a notification focuses the main window instead of the window where the session is open
Status Open
Reported on v2.1.212
Maintainer reply None cached
Activity 0 comments · opened Aug 13, 2026
Environment
- Claude Code: 2.1.212 (desktop app)
- OS: macOS 26.5.2 (Build 25F84)
Description
When running sessions in multiple windows of the Claude Code desktop app, clicking a desktop notification (e.g. a task-complete notification) always brings the original/main window (the one with the menu) to the foreground — not the window that actually hosts the session the notification came from.
Steps to reproduce
- Open the Claude Code desktop app (main window).
- Open a session in a separate window. (The bug reproduces regardless of how the second window is opened.)
- Start a task in the session running in the separate window and switch to another app.
- When the notification for that session arrives, click it.
Expected behavior
Clicking the notification focuses the window that hosts the session the notification belongs to.
Actual behavior
The main/original window is brought to the foreground instead. The user then has to manually locate the window where the session is actually open.
Related issues
- #62447 (notification focus stealing — related but different: this issue is about focus going to the wrong window on click, not about unsolicited focus stealing)
- #62324 (dock icon focuses/spawns the wrong window on macOS)