The ChatGPT app for iPhone now allows you to chat with ChatGPT while using other apps. This update brings ChatGPT one step closer to becoming the digital assistant on your phone.
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By default, this new ChatGPT multitasking feature is disabled, so you'll need to enable it manually. Here's how:
- Make sure the ChatGPT app is updated to the latest version.
- Open the app settings by tapping your name at the bottom of the sidebar.
- Scroll down and enable background chats.
Once you enable background chats, you can start a voice conversation with ChatGPT, exit the app, and continue talking. This makes it work very much like an assistant, similar to Siri.
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Speaking of Siri, we're just days away from the announcement of an official partnership between Apple and OpenAI to bring ChatGPT-style intelligence to iOS 18 and potentially debut the new and improved Siri.
latest teaser also hinted that a major Siri overhaul is on the horizon. This could mean Siri will gain control of all the app's features and adopt a chat style similar to ChatGPT.
Regardless of what Apple reveals next week about its partnership with OpenAI, the continued improvements to the ChatGPT app, making it more useful on the iPhone, is a positive development, especially for the company.
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Since OpenAI is leasing its AI to Apple, powering Siri with ChatGPT, there must be some exclusive perks for the latter if the company wants iOS users to stick with it and even sign up. Otherwise, it wouldn’t make much sense – why bother downloading and using ChatGPT if Siri has all its features?
Source: phonearena
