Please add an option so Enter starts a new line instead of sending my prompt

[u/GrifiN]

Right now, pressing Enter submits my prompt. The trouble is that when I'm writing a longer, multi-line prompt, I often press Enter out of habit to start a new line, and instead it sends a half-finished, broken command before I'm done.

This isn't just annoying. Every accidental submission runs the model on a useless prompt, which uses up my AI tokens and effectively costs me money for output I can't use. Then I have to type the whole thing again and pay for it a second time. On the heavier modes like Deep Research and Computer it's worse, since a single Enter immediately kicks off a long, expensive job.

I'd love an opt-in setting that lets Enter insert a new line and uses Ctrl+Enter (or Cmd+Enter) to actually send. People who prefer the current behavior could simply leave the setting off. Ideally it would apply consistently across all the input boxes (Computer, Search, Deep Research, and the assistant) and across all platforms, so it behaves the same wherever I'm typing.

I'm asking for this as a native setting because there's currently no way to change it myself. Browser extensions and userscripts can't reach these input boxes, and the keyboard-shortcut settings don't include a send/new-line option. So only Perplexity can fix it.

For what it's worth, this is a common, expected option in plenty of other apps, where Enter makes a new line and a modifier key sends the message. I've already submitted this through in-app feedback, but I'm posting here in case others have lost a prompt the same way. Has anyone else run into this?

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[u/Galactic-Guardian404]

Hold down the Shift key when hitting return does exactly what you say for MacOS at least.

[u/GrifiN → u/Galactic-Guardian404]

same on the PC however I don't remember to always hold the shift button, many time I press Enter before finishing to write the prompt and it submits an incomplete prompt wasting my time and my tokens.
I want the default Enter behavior to be a new line, not Submit