PulseAugur
EN
LIVE 14:01:09

Claude AI users frustrated by persistent, unclosable "Progress" panel

By PulseAugur Editorial · [1 sources] ·

Users of Anthropic's Claude AI are experiencing an issue where a "Progress" panel defaults to opening in every chat session, hindering usability. This panel, which appears after a recent merge of chat and coworker features, cannot be permanently collapsed or disabled, forcing users to constantly scroll and reducing the visible chat area. Users are seeking a workaround or a persistent setting to keep the panel closed. AI

IMPACT This issue impacts the user experience of Claude AI, potentially affecting productivity and user satisfaction.

RANK_REASON User-reported usability issue with an existing product feature.

Read on r/ClaudeAI →

AI-generated summary · Google Gemini · from 1 sources. How we write summaries →

Claude AI users frustrated by persistent, unclosable "Progress" panel

How we ranked this

Signal score
0 / 100
Composite score across the factors below. Higher = stronger signal that this story matters right now.
Newsworthiness bucket
Tool
User-reported usability issue with an existing product feature.
Source corroboration
Single-source cluster
Only one publisher covered this so far. Single-source stories can still rank when the publisher is high-authority, but they lack cross-source corroboration.
Topics
product
Editorial topic classification. Feeds into how the story surfaces on /topic/<slug> hub pages and into the per-entity coverage mix.
AI-industry relevance
High
Clearly on-topic for AI-industry coverage.
Story freshness
31 days old
Aged out of breaking-news scoring windows; ranking reflects the durable signal from the full source set.

Full methodology in our editorial standards.

COVERAGE [1]

  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/Leto33 ·

    Projects: the "Progress" panel opens by default in every chat and there's no way to turn it off

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Since the Chat/Cowork merge, every time I open a chat in a Project new or old, the right panel is showing &quot;Progress.&quot; I don't need that info unless I ask for it, and it squeezes the chat column narrow enough that I'm scrolling constantl…

RELATED ENTITIES

RELATED TOPICS