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Terminal UI issues on macOS — page 2

Issues the maintainers labelled both platform:macos and area:tui.

3,716 issues · 517 open · 3,199 resolved (86%) · first seen Mar 4, 2025

Is this getting better or worse?

This class of problem is converging. 559 new reports in the last 90 days vs 1065 in the 90 before — -48%. The open backlog peaked at 517 in 2026-10 and sits at 517 today.

0 129 259 388 517 2025-032025-092026-042026-10
2025-03 — First reports2026-04 — Most new reports (519)2026-10 — Peak backlog (517 open)

Derived by counting each matching issue from its creation date until it closed. First-party computation over the anthropics/claude-code tracker — the trend is not published anywhere upstream.

Which builds report this

2,239 of these reports name the Claude Code build they were running, spanning 228 releases. Heaviest reporters:

Report volume, not a defect count: an issue can mention a build without that build having caused the failure. Versions come from the version string in the bug-report template, matched against real published tags.

Do these get fixed?

Median time to close is 33 days across 3,199 closures. Of the 3,199 closures with a recorded reason, 30% were closed as completed and 2,255 as not-planned or duplicate. The most recent completed fix landed in 2026-10.

Workarounds reported by the community

745 of these issues post a workaround someone says worked. The highest-engagement ones:

Terminal Scrolling Uncontrollably During Claude Code Interaction
…terminal, and that issue may be inside library itself. For workaround I've been writing my prompts in scratch file in IDE and pasting them into claude. Than it goes crazy if prompt was too big, but proceeds.
Found in the thread of #3648 · resolved
Allow viewing and editing content of “pasted text” blocks before submission
…y for users who rely on assistive technologies. The current workaround of saving to files and referencing them breaks the natural flow of voice-driven workflows. Similar issues: 143 (Better ergonomics for long text)
Found in the description of #3412 · resolved
[BUG] IME input causes performance issues and duplicate conversion candidates
…ing in a separate system window while typing Japanese text. Workaround Currently, switching to English input temporarily resolves the performance issue, but this is not a viable long-term solution for Japanese developers…
Found in the description of #1547 · still open
Terminal keeps scrolling to top when conversation gets long
…u can read what the agent did...or you can fight the scroll in the meantime and still not be able to read anything..
Found in the thread of #36582 · still open
[FEAT] Add support for custom terminal themes beyond built-in options
…legible diff with bright colors on dark background]( 3. The workaround: Manual theme switching - After manually switching Claude Code's theme, the same diff becomes readable: \![Same diff after manually switching Claude…
Found in the thread of #1302 · resolved

Excerpts are quoted from the linked issue so you can judge relevance before opening it. Threads that only ask for a workaround, or report that there is none, are excluded. These are community suggestions, not official guidance from Anthropic — read the full thread before applying one.

Matching issues 101–200

Ranked by community engagement (reactions weighted over comments). Listing the top 300 of 3,716 matches; the statistics above cover all 3,716.

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