Claude Opus 4.6 has definitely been nerfed in the last few days, especially in the Claude app.

Here's a comparison with Claude Code in Telegram, where I manually set Max reasoning effort.

(I hate that Anthropic does this regularly and keeps pretending it doesn't.)

Also saw some folks suggest switching back to Opus 4.5 and yep, whatever it is they've done to Opus 4.6, the older version isn't affected.
@viticci had to try myself