Why IDA is not refreshing local after changing type for variable?

[bukowa]

I changed a1 to wchar_t * but Locals won’t pickup the change.

[igor]

Possibly you need to step so that IDA queries the updated information from the decompiler. During debugging, IDA minimizes refreshes to avoid slowdowns.

If you still see stale info after stepping, please submit a ticket with a sample + reproduction steps on support.hex-rays.com.