OpenAI updated its iPhone and Android ChatGPT apps, bringing a Background Conversation setting that needs your attention.
ChatGPT went down early on Tuesday morning, but the outage seems to be fixed, as OpenAI has figured out what caused the new ChatGPT service disruption. I say new because ChatGPT went out for several hours just a few days ago. Hopefully, this won’t become routine for OpenAI’s popular chatbot, especially if it becomes a part of the AI services Apple built into iOS 18.
But there’s an actually interesting development from ChatGPT this week. It appears OpenAI has rolled out a new setting for the voice chats you might have with the chatbot on iPhone and Android. There’s a new Background Conversations setting that you should inspect right away.
Depending on how you use voice with ChatGPT, you’ll want to enable or disable the privacy feature.
OpenAI rolled out support for voice conversations in its mobile apps last November, well before the amazing GPT-4o multimodal upgrade that ChatGPT got in May. I’ve already shown you how to use ChatGPT on iPhone, saying that’s what I wanted from Siri.
