Apple parted with OpenAI to bring AI technology to Apple devices. The new combination will be released with iOS 18. Until then you can now interact in different ways. OpenAI has the ChatGPT app and since last year iPhone and iPad users can access it too. With the app, users can get help from the chatbox with text and voice. With the latest ChatGPT 4.0 update now users can upload photos and images to the app. but there are some limitations for this version. As per the OpenAI, chatGPT can help you with the following features.
- Answers for questions: you can get answers to your questions and do the moderation as you want. try to input the right prompt then you don’t have to change the answers.
- Give advice: it can work as your personal adviser, it can guide you on different paths and give you the plans you want and you can customize them.
- For Creative works: it can give ideas for songs, event decorations, essays, poems, etc.
- For Professional works: you can make summarization, make reports, and analyze data with ChatGPT.
- Learning assistance: give help to learn new languages and subjects. You can ask questions related to the topics and clarify your doubts.
History is synced and you can see the history from your account. One of the latest and biggest features is the background conversation feature. With this ChatGPT can answer your questions even if the app is not open. You can do your other tasks and switch between apps without a problem. To do this,
- First, Download the ChatGPT app.
- Open the app and log in to your account. If you are a new one create a new account.
- After you can see the main screen. in here there is a headphone icon on the bottom-right corner. Tap on it and you will enter the Voice Mode.
- Then give access to ChatGPT to connect to voice. After that, you can do your things with the chatgpt and, can do the pause, resume, and exit manually. Then when you want to do another task swap out the app and it will start the background conversation mode.
When you do that, ChatGPT starts to listen to you in the background. You can speak to chatgpt while you doing other work. If your iPhone has a dynamic island feature you can see the microphone and ChatGPT symbol on the screen.
This mode is active even when you lock your iPhone. The live chat keeps going and you can see an activity card telling you the chat is going. This means as long as you are near to your phone you can do the work with ChatGPT while managing other works. OpenAI says they introduced this background conversation feature to reduce battery usage and remove the unnecessary impact on battery life.
Voice Change
The Voice chat is coming with different voice actors. You can change the voice if your current voice can’t make you feel good. To do that,
In the ChatGPT window tap on the sidebar icon. You can see it in the left-right corner.
To go to Settings tap on your profile.
Navigate to the Voice Mode section and tap on Voice.
Here you can choose the voice you want. you can listen to the sample voice when you tap it.
Once you get the voice you want, tap on confirm button. It will confirm your choice.
Assign ChatGPT voice mode to iPhone Action Button
The latest iPhones come with an Action Button, like the iPhone 15. If your iPhone has the Action button you can assign ChatGPT voice mode to it and get quick access. To do that,
- First, open the Settings app.
- Then tap on the action button.
- Navigate to the Shortcut option and tap on the action selector.
- Here search ChatGPT and select Start voice conversation shortcut.
After this, you can begin any conversation with ChatGPT by simply using the Action button.
If you didn’t like this background conversation feature and you want to use ChatGPT without it, now ChatGPT gives you access to switch off this mode in your app. Go to Settings and turn off the toggle in the Voice Mode section. When it is off, you can’t see the orange dot indicating the mic on the top-right corner of your screen.
OpenAI says that they are working on giving a better experience to the users with the voice settings. As the news, they are going to add controls to make emotional tones to give a good interaction to users. Also, they say in the near future developers will get access to a huge range of APIs to get the voice interactions they want. with this, they can use ChatGPT for customer services and there will be support for different accents. With these updates, using ChatGPT will make your life simpler and easier than before.