ChatGPT Updates & Release Notes

ChatGPT desktop app experience updates

We’ve updated the ChatGPT desktop app to make it easier to choose between Chat and Work, find your conversations and Projects, and continue Work across devices. These updates are now live for all plans on macOS and Windows.

macOS and Windows

• A clearer desktop layout: A global switcher lets you choose between ChatGPT and Codex. In ChatGPT, choose Chat for quick questions and conversational help, or Work to complete tasks end to end.
• Unified Recents: Chat and Work conversations now appear together in Recents, where you can sort, filter, and pin them.
• Projects in the desktop app: Your existing ChatGPT Projects now appear in the app. You can start a Chat conversation inside a Project or begin a Work thread using Project context.
• Continue Work across devices: Cloud Work conversations now sync across web, mobile, and desktop, so you can start on one surface and continue on another. Local conversations stay on your computer.
• Codex remains unchanged: As part of this update, Codex remains a separate view, and its workflows and history are unchanged. Quick Chats remain available for fast conversations.

Search across chats, projects, and files is now supercharged.

We’ve rolled out a new way to search your chats, projects, images, and documents in ChatGPT on web, iOS, and Android. You can quickly find past chats, projects, images, and documents from one place.

Start searching from the ChatGPT sidebar to find what you need across everything, or use filters to narrow results by content type. Select a result to open the chat, project, or file directly in ChatGPT.

Available on all ChatGPT plans globally.

ChatGPT is available again on WhatsApp in the European Economic Area (EEA).

You can get started without a ChatGPT account by messaging the verified 1-800-CHATGPT contact at +1-800-242-8478.

On WhatsApp, you can message ChatGPT, upload images, send voice notes, create images, and use ChatGPT in many languages. Linking your ChatGPT account is optional and provides higher usage limits.

Availability is based on the country code associated with your WhatsApp number and may roll out gradually. Usage limits apply.

ChatGPT is also available on Kakao in South Korea and Viber in supported markets.

Introducing ChatGPT Work

ChatGPT Work is an agent for longer, more involved tasks. It can research and analyze information, work across connected apps and files, and create finished documents, spreadsheets, presentations, reports, and Sites. You can follow its progress, answer questions, change direction, and approve important actions as it works.

Work can also keep projects moving through Scheduled Tasks that run once, repeat on a schedule or trigger, or monitor for changes.

On web and mobile, Work is rolling out to paid plans except Free and Go. Pro, Pro Lite, Enterprise, and Edu users receive access first; Plus and Business users will follow over the coming days. Work is available in all supported regions.

On web and mobile, Enterprise and Edu workspaces have a two-week preview period. Work is off by default during the preview, and admins can opt out before it turns on automatically at the end of the preview.

We’re also replacing the App Directory with the Plugin Directory. Existing app connections are unaffected. Plugins can package skills, apps, and app templates for specific workflows, and are available from ChatGPT on web and desktop, including Work and Codex.

Learn more about ChatGPT Work and Codex.

Learn more about plugins and the new plugin directory.

We’re rolling out a new ChatGPT Voice experience. ChatGPT Voice is now powered by GPT-Live-1 for paid users and GPT-Live-1 mini for Free users. Both models can listen and speak at the same time, making turn-taking and interruptions feel more natural.

GPT-Live-1 works inside a ChatGPT chat, with spoken responses appearing alongside streamed text. It can use web search and memory, show visual results through supported widgets, and work with text and images in the same conversation.

GPT-Live-1 is rolling out across consumer plans, including Free, on chatgpt.com and the ChatGPT iOS and Android apps in supported regions. It is not available in ChatGPT Business, Enterprise, or Edu workspaces at launch. GPT-Live-1 does not support video or screen sharing at this time; eligible subscribers can continue using those capabilities with Advanced Voice Mode.

GPT-5.5 Instant Mini in ChatGPT

We’re rolling out GPT-5.5 Instant Mini in ChatGPT. It replaces GPT-5.3 Instant Mini as the fallback model users reach after hitting their GPT-5.5 Instant or Auto rate limits. Because it serves as a fallback, it won’t appear in the model picker. This update does not affect the API or Codex.

Compared with GPT-5.3 Instant Mini, GPT-5.5 Instant Mini better tracks evolving user intent, calibrates tone, and avoids repetitive or overly structured responses. Testing also showed stronger personalization and fewer factual issues.

Codex Remote GA and DigitalOcean plugin

Codex Remote is now generally available on all ChatGPT plans. From the ChatGPT mobile app, users can start or continue work on a connected Mac or Windows host, review progress, and approve actions from their phone. Remote Control now uses authenticated one-to-one QR pairing between each supported mobile device and each host. Connections used since June 8 remain paired; older inactive connections need to pair again. Signing out turns off Remote Control without removing existing pairings.

The new DigitalOcean Droplet Workspace plugin lets Codex provision a DigitalOcean Droplet, configure SSH access, and connect it to the Codex app as a remote workspace. Users should update the ChatGPT mobile app and Codex app to the latest versions before connecting.

GPT-5.5 Instant Update

We’re updating GPT-5.5 Instant, our most-used model in ChatGPT, to improve conversational quality—especially when users are making a decision, asking for advice, planning something, researching options, or shopping.

The model is better at identifying the underlying goal behind a question and carrying context across multiple turns. It also follows complex instructions more reliably: when a request includes several constraints or requirements, responses are more likely to address all of them and clearly explain why a recommendation is a good fit.

When users add constraints, clarify what they mean, or push back on an answer, the model should adapt more effectively instead of repeating its original approach.

Shopping and local business queries should also feel more useful. The model makes better use of location context to surface relevant nearby options and can bring together product recommendations, business information, and images more coherently when those elements are helpful.

Overall, responses should feel more tasteful and cohesive. Formatting is less templated and more intentionally designed, with greater creativity alongside better restraint.

Large pastes are now handled as attachments for more plans

Starting today for ChatGPT Free and Go users, long pastes are handled differently in ChatGPT.

If you paste more than 10k characters into the composer, ChatGPT will automatically convert the content into an attachment instead of inserting it directly into the text field. This keeps the composer cleaner and helps prevent large pastes from consuming your entire context window.

You can still move the content back into the message at any time by clicking on Show in text field to convert the attachment back to a direct paste.

This is already available to ChatGPT Plus, Pro, and Business users. Previously if you sent more than 5k characters it was sent as an attachment. The threshold has now also been raised to 10k characters.

ChatGPT app experience updates

ChatGPT now has more ways to help with common questions, from pronunciation guidance to World Cup updates. It’s also smoother to use, with easier chat organization and sharing, more control over connected apps, and faster photo uploads on iOS, and more.

Web, iOS, and Android

• Help with pronunciations: ChatGPT can now include text and audio pronunciation guidance for words in more than 60 languages. Ask how to pronounce a word and ChatGPT can explain it with both audio and text in the conversation.
• World Cup updates: ChatGPT can now help you follow the tournament in a more conversational way. Ask about schedules, matchups, teams and players, country storylines, predictions, and what different match outcomes mean. Get started at chatgpt.com/football.
• App permission controls: You can now choose when ChatGPT asks before using connected apps. Set ChatGPT to always ask, ask before making changes, or only ask before important changes. Manage preferences in Settings > Apps.

Web

• Easier pinning and sidebar organization: It’s now easier to keep important work close in ChatGPT. You can pin chats and projects directly from the sidebar, and your Pinned section now includes both chats and projects. You can also organize Recents as one combined list, or group chats by project so related work stays together.
• Easier conversation sharing: Sharing a conversation is now faster, with a one-click flow that no longer opens a separate pop-up.
• Create a note from a response: Highlight text in a ChatGPT response and choose ‘Start writing’ to keep working on it, or save it to your Library to come back to later.

iOS

• Improved camera and photo uploads: Taking and uploading photos in ChatGPT on iOS is now faster and smoother, making it easier to add images to your conversations.

Android

• Long-press send to choose a model: Android users on paid plans can now long-press the send button to choose a model for a one-off message without changing their default model.
• Updated composer and tools menu: The composer in Android now has inline mentions, and an updated menu for Plugins.

Record & Replay in Codex

Record & Replay is a new Codex app feature for macOS that lets eligible users demonstrate a workflow once and turn it into a reusable skill. It is useful for repetitive workflows or tasks that are easier to show than describe, such as creating a configured issue, publishing a video, or downloading a recurring report.

Record & Replay requires Computer Use to be available and enabled, and initial availability excludes the European Union, UK and Switzerland. Learn more in the Record & Replay guide.

Scheduled tasks in ChatGPT

With scheduled tasks, users can ask ChatGPT to send reminders, handle recurring work, or monitor things for them. This update makes tasks easier to find and manage, faster and more reliable, with more useful notifications.

What’s changing

• A new Scheduled page, discoverable in the sidebar, gives users one place to view active tasks, see when they’ll run next, and pause, resume, edit, or delete them.
• All tasks are faster and more reliable.
• Users can schedule work for specific times or broader windows, such as morning, afternoon, or evening.
• Monitoring tasks can search the web and check connected apps for changes and notify users only when there is something worth reporting.

Availability and limits

• Rolling out to Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users.
• Active task limits vary by tier.
• Tasks cannot run more than once per hour, and unattended tasks may automatically pause after a period of inactivity.

Update on Pulse

Pulse is being sunset as proactive updates move into scheduled tasks. Pro users will continue to have access for 14 days from today. To keep receiving daily updates, you can ask ChatGPT to schedule a daily briefing based on your interests and past chats.