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203203### Switch view modes
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205View modes control how much detail appears in the chat transcript. Switch modes from the **Transcript view** dropdown next to the send button, or press **Ctrl+O** on macOS or Windows to cycle through them.
205View modes control how much detail appears in the chat transcript. Switch modes from the **Transcript view** dropdown next to the send button, or press **Ctrl+O** on macOS or Windows to cycle through them. The Thinking mode appears in the dropdown only after Claude has produced thinking in the session you're viewing.
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207| Mode | What it shows |
208| ----------- | -------------------------------------------------------------- |
209| **Normal** | Tool calls collapsed into summaries, with full text responses |
210| **Verbose** | Every tool call, file read, and intermediate step Claude takes |
211| **Summary** | Only Claude's final responses and the changes it made |
207| Mode | What it shows |
208| ------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
209| **Normal** | Tool calls collapsed into summaries, with full text responses |
210| **Thinking** | Tool calls collapsed into summaries, plus Claude's thinking |
211| **Verbose** | Every tool call, file read, and intermediate step Claude takes, plus Claude's thinking |
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213Use Verbose when debugging why Claude took a particular action. Use Summary when you're running multiple sessions and want to scan results quickly.
213Use Thinking to follow Claude's reasoning with tool calls still collapsed. Use Verbose when debugging why Claude took a particular action. Claude Desktop versions before 1.46388.1 also list a Summary mode, and a session still set to Summary opens in Normal once you update.
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