ChatGPT Updates & Release Notes

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.

The new ChatGPT desktop app brings Chat, Work, and Codex together

The new ChatGPT desktop app is available globally for macOS and Windows. It combines Chat for questions and conversation, Work for research and finished deliverables, and Codex for software development in one app.

On desktop, Work can use local files and desktop apps with your permission. The built-in browser lets ChatGPT gather information from websites and work with supported web-based tools and files. Codex also adds inline editing within diffs, pull-request review in the side panel, faster computer use, and support for multiple repositories in one project.

If you already use the Codex app, update it as usual to move to the new ChatGPT desktop app. If you use the previous ChatGPT desktop app, follow the prompt in the app to download the new version. The previous app may remain installed as ChatGPT Classic. ChatGPT Classic continues to receive model updates, bug fixes, security patches, and support for its existing Enterprise capabilities, while new agent features such as Work and Codex are available in the new app.

Learn more about moving to the new ChatGPT desktop app.

Introducing ChatGPT Sites in public beta

ChatGPT Sites lets you turn your work or ideas into an interactive website or lightweight app without leaving ChatGPT. You can create dashboards, project trackers, launch calendars, prototypes, internal portals, and reports, then preview and refine the result with ChatGPT before sharing it.

Business and Enterprise customers already have access to Sites. Starting today, they can also publish Sites publicly and share them with anyone through a URL, expanding Sites beyond people in their workspace.

To create a Site, start in ChatGPT Work on the web or in Work or Codex in the ChatGPT desktop app. Describe what you want to build, add any relevant content, files, data, links, or constraints, and review the private preview before publishing.

In Enterprise workspaces, public publishing is off by default and must be enabled by an admin. Sites is also rolling out in public beta to Pro, Pro Lite, and Edu users, with Plus users following over the coming days. Sites is not available on Free or Go plans. Public publishing and the expanded beta rollout are not available in the EEA, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom at launch.

Learn more about creating and managing ChatGPT Sites.

Retiring group chats in ChatGPT

Beginning July 9, users on web, iOS, and Android will no longer be able to create new group chats, turn existing conversations into group chats, or join a group chat through an invite link.

Existing group chats will remain available and can continue to be used for now. When an existing group chat becomes read-only, users will retain access to the messages, files, and images already shared there. Individual ChatGPT conversations are unaffected.

Retiring Atlas

We’re deprecating Atlas as we bring browser-based agentic capabilities into ChatGPT and Codex. Atlas is scheduled to stop working on August 9, 2026.

We want to make this transition as easy as possible. Before then, move any Atlas data you want to keep. Atlas browser data, including bookmarks, open tabs, and browser history, will not transfer automatically. You can export your cookies and passwords to the ChatGPT desktop app and your bookmarks to Chrome. Be sure to save any important pages or URLs from your open tabs and browser history before August 9.

Your ChatGPT conversation history is separate and will remain available in ChatGPT, subject to your plan, workspace settings, and account access.

We’re building on what we learned from Atlas to bring a more capable browser experience to ChatGPT, including multiple tabs, downloads, improved navigation, and account login support where available. For deeper browser-based agentic work, try the ChatGPT desktop app. For help while browsing in Chrome, try the ChatGPT Chrome extension or sidebar, where available.

You can learn more about moving off Atlas in our Help Center article.

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.

As of June 12, 2026, GPT-5.2 models are no longer available in ChatGPT.

This applies to GPT-5.2 Instant, GPT-5.2 Thinking, and GPT-5.2 Pro. Existing conversations that used GPT-5.2 will automatically continue on the corresponding GPT-5.5 model. GPT-5.5 models remain available in ChatGPT.

This retirement was previously announced with the release of GPT-5.3 Instant. Models will generally remain available in ChatGPT for 90 days after a successor is released.

Additional controls for memory summary

You can now delete the memories shown on your memory summary page and turn memory off by selecting “Delete and turn off memory” from the three-dot menu. This does not delete your past chats. If you turn memory back on later, ChatGPT may create new memories from chats that remain in your chat history. This control is available to all ChatGPT users on the web and rolling out on mobile soon.

To make changes to your memory summary, you can:

• Type what you want changed into the text box at the bottom of the memory summary, and it will update accordingly.
• Highlight any text in the memory summary to make a specific correction.

If you don’t want information from a chat to be used to personalize responses, you can turn off memory or use Temporary Chat. Temporary Chats don’t use existing memories or create new memories.

Memory updates, including memory summary, are still rolling out across ChatGPT plans and countries. You’ll be notified in ChatGPT when memory updates are available to you.

We’ve made several Codex updates, including:

• Eligible Plus and Pro users now have rate-limit reset banking, including one free reset at launch and the ability to send referral invitations from within the Codex app. When an eligible recipient sends their first Codex message, both people receive a banked rate-limit reset. Banked resets are usable for 30 days after they are granted.
• This release also adds Developer mode for Browser use in Chrome and the Codex in-app browser. Developer mode gives Codex controlled Chrome DevTools Protocol access so it can profile JavaScript, inspect console output and network traffic, review page state such as the DOM and applied styles, and diagnose live browser issues. The feature is off by default - users can toggle the feature from Codex app settings.

Other changes in this release include the /init command for generating an AGENTS.md project-instructions scaffold, customizable macOS Dock icons, an Unread chats section in the command menu, and clearer usage-limit errors with plan and workspace guidance, including reset timing when available.

Simplified controls in the model picker

We’re updating the model picker to make it easier to choose the balance of speed and reasoning effort that works best for your task.

The model picker now has the following simplified options:

• Instant
• Medium
• High
• Extra High [Pro plans only]
• Pro Standard [Pro plans only]
• Pro Extended [Pro plans only]

On iOS and Android, you can find the picker at the top of the conversation. On web, it appears directly in the message composer.

Users have the ability to decide whether Instant auto-switches to Medium for higher reasoning when required. You can turn this on or off in General > Settings.

What changed from the previous model picker:

Thinking Standard is now Medium, Thinking Extended is now High, and Thinking Heavy is now Extra High. Pro Standard and Pro Extended remain available under Pro. Thinking Light is no longer available.

Availability

These model picker updates are rolling out to Plus and Pro users on web, iOS, and Android globally today.

Improvement to charts, table of contents and full-screen writing. Also fixes long-standing issues around editing messages with attachments, and various other bug fixes.

Web, iOS, and Android updates include:

• Interactive charts in answers: ChatGPT can now turn some answers into rich and interactive bar, line, pie, and scatter charts directly in the conversation. Ask for a chart, or ChatGPT may include one when it helps make trends and comparisons easier to understand.

Web:

• Table of contents in longer conversations: Conversations longer than five responses can now include a table of contents, so you can scan sections and jump to the part you need.
• Full-screen writing blocks for longer-form work: Writing blocks now cover long-form writing use cases, including essays, PRDs, reports, blog posts, notes, and other document work. Longer writing can now open in a focused full-screen editor. You can save your document to the Library, so you can find, reuse, or edit documents later. The experience also adds a wider document layout, cleaner titles, a table of contents for long documents, download support, undo and redo fixes, improved save behavior, and clearer loading states.
• Send an email directly from within a chat: If you’ve connected Gmail or Outlook, you can now ask ChatGPT to draft and send emails directly from the same conversation. ChatGPT will create a draft and you can choose to send it without leaving ChatGPT. Sending emails is available on the web for users on Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans with Gmail or Outlook connected.

iOS:

• Edit messages with attachments: You can now edit messages that include attachments, so you can revise your prompt without starting over.
• Long-press send to choose a model: 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.
• Autocorrection applies before sending: Last-second auto-corrections now automatically apply as before your message is sent to avoid typos.
• Immediate image previews after sending: When you upload an image on iOS, ChatGPT used to show a grey box after you sent your message. Now it shows the preview right away so that it’s clear which photo you sent.
• Cleaned up logged-out mobile web experience: Logged-out users now see a composer in the middle of the screen to avoid being blocked by popups. The sidebar has also been simplified.

Android:

• Cleaner edit-message flow: Android now makes it clearer when you’re editing a previous message.