ChatGPT Updates & Release Notes

We’ve upgraded memory so ChatGPT can better keep your context up to date, helping responses stay more relevant. This makes memory more useful by reducing stale or contradictory saved memories and helps ChatGPT better understand your preferences, goals, and ongoing work. You can review the memories that ChatGPT may use to personalize responses through sources or in your memory summary.

Memories are now updated automatically, with ChatGPT keeping track of the details it determines are most important so it can continue building on the context you’ve already shared. If you prefer to revert to the legacy saved memories system, go to Settings > Memory > Saved memories.

This update is rolling this out to Plus and Pro users in the US today. To access it on iOS or Android, update your ChatGPT app to the latest version. We’ll expand to Free and Go plans and additional countries over the next few weeks. Users will receive an in-product notice when the update becomes available to them. For Plus and Pro users, ChatGPT can also remember more useful context, with twice as much memory capacity.

Lockdown Mode is now available to all logged-in users across account types and workspaces. It is an optional opt-in advanced security setting that limits access to the web and external services to help reduce the risk of data exfiltration from prompt injection attacks.

When Lockdown Mode is on, ChatGPT restricts network-enabled capabilities such as live web browsing, deep research, agent mode, file downloads, and some web-derived image support. Personal users can turn it on from Settings > Security. Workspace admins can configure access for members through workspace settings and role-based access controls.

Learn more: Lockdown Mode

Active account session controls

We’re rolling out Active sessions, a new security feature in ChatGPT that helps users review sessions associated with their account and sign out of sessions they don’t recognize.

Users can now:

• Review first-party OpenAI sessions from Settings > Security > Active sessions, with available details such as device, app, approximate location, sign-in time, trusted-device status, and whether it is the current session
• Log out of individual sessions or all sessions from Active sessions

Active sessions shows sessions known through session management, including ChatGPT, Codex, and API Platform sessions where available. It does not manage third-party app sessions, connected apps, Sign in with ChatGPT sessions used only for third-party services, or Codex CLI sessions.

Learn more: Managing active sessions in ChatGPT

Find live jobs and format your resume in ChatGPT

ChatGPT can now help with more of the job search process, from finding relevant live roles to tailoring a resume for a specific opportunity.

When you search for jobs, ChatGPT can surface live listings and freelance opportunities from sources like Indeed, Upwork, Appcast, and across the web. Results are personalized using your experience, skills, and goals to highlight roles that may be a strong fit. You can follow links to apply directly on the source sites.

You can now also upload or create a resume in ChatGPT, tailor it to a specific role, and download it in a polished, professional format.

Availability:

• Job search: Available to users in the U.S. on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans
• Resume formatting: Available in English globally on the web for all plans

Codex now supports Computer Use on Windows in the Codex app, so eligible users can ask Codex to see, click, and type in Windows applications while they test, debug, and refine what they are building. Users can start work on a Windows machine and use ChatGPT on iOS or Android, or Codex on Mac, to check progress, continue the thread, respond to prompts, and steer work while away from the desk; the Windows machine remains the host for project files, shell, app server, and local context.

This release also includes infrastructure updates that improve responsiveness and in-app browser speed, stability, and web compatibility, plus Codex Profiles for eligible users to see their Codex identity, activity over time, profile details, usage stats, and token activity. Computer Use on Windows is unavailable in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland at launch.

Learn more: Computer Use, Remote control, Profiles.

We’re updating GPT-5.5 Instant in ChatGPT and the API to improve response style and quality. It’s now easier to read, more natural in everyday conversations, and better paced in practical help tasks, with fewer overly long or bullet-heavy responses.

With this update, canvas will no longer be available in GPT-5.5 Instant or GPT-5.5 Thinking. Writing and coding functionality is now supported directly in chat responses through writing blocks and code blocks. Paid users can continue using canvas for a limited time through legacy models until those models are sunset.

Codex now has more ways to understand your work context and keep longer tasks moving:

• Appshots in the Codex app on macOS let you attach an app window to a Codex thread with a hotkey, including a screenshot and available text, so Codex can understand what you are looking at without a long setup prompt.
• Goal mode is generally available across the Codex app, IDE extension, and CLI, so you can define an outcome and success criteria and let Codex keep working toward it.
• In-app browser annotations support more precise styling feedback for browser-based and frontend work.
• Locked computer use lets eligible Mac Computer Use users keep Codex working remotely and securely after the Mac locks, subject to existing Computer Use regional constraints.
• Browser use improvements include advanced annotation mode, faster asset extraction, read-only JavaScript context, tab grouping usability, less Chrome extension tab clutter, and reliability improvements.

Learn more: Appshots, Goal mode, locked computer use, in-app browser annotations, and config reference.

We’re starting to roll out a new personal finance experience in ChatGPT. Pro users in the United States can securely connect supported financial accounts, see a dashboard of where their money is going, and ask questions grounded in their financial context.

Available on web and iOS, Finances lets you view spending, bills, subscriptions, net worth, and investment information in one place. You can ask questions directly in ChatGPT or use the Finances page to explore insights, review upcoming payments, track recurring charges, and think through budgets, savings goals, debt payoff, and other financial decisions.

Users can connect accounts through Plaid. This experience is rolling out gradually, so some eligible users may not see it right away.

ChatGPT can help users understand and plan, but it cannot move money, pay bills, place trades, file taxes, or act as a financial, legal, tax, or investment adviser.

Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app

Codex is now available in preview in the ChatGPT mobile app, so you can stay connected to active work from your phone while Codex continues running on the connected Mac host. From mobile, you can start or continue threads, answer questions, change direction, approve actions, review what Codex found, and move across connected hosts without stepping away from the work. That means you can keep an investigation moving, make a decision when Codex reaches a fork, or spin up a new idea before you are back at your desk. You can currently connect your phone to Codex running on macOS.

The mobile experience loads live context from the machine where Codex is operating, including project context, approvals, plugins, screenshots, terminal output, diffs, and test results. Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app is rolling out on iOS and Android across all plans, including Free and Go, in supported regions. To try it, update both the ChatGPT mobile app and the Codex app on macOS. Setup starts in the Codex App on the host and continues in ChatGPT after scanning a QR code; the host must remain awake, online, and running Codex for remote access to continue.

File library is expanding to Free and Go users, including to users in the European Economic Area (EEA) making it easier to find, reuse, and build on files you upload or create in ChatGPT. You can add recent files from the composer, browse saved files in Library, and ask ChatGPT about files you’ve used before, like “What should I know about the document I uploaded yesterday?”

We’re also introducing storage management across plans. Storage includes files you upload and files created in ChatGPT, including documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and images. Limits vary by plan:

• Free: 500 MB
• Go: 4 GB
• Plus and Business: 20 GB
• Pro: 100 GB

Generated images will continue to appear in the Images tab.

Storage management is currently available on web and you can access it from Settings > Storage; you can also delete files directly from Library.

Files remain in your Library until you delete them. Files uploaded in Temporary Chat aren’t saved to Library.

Library and ‘Recent files’ in the composer are supported on web, iOS, and Android.

Learn more about File storage and Library in ChatGPT.

Trusted contact in ChatGPT

Over the coming weeks, we'll be rolling out trusted contact, an optional safety feature for adults with personal ChatGPT accounts.

Trusted contact in ChatGPT helps you connect with a person you trust if you need additional support. You may choose your trusted contact in settings, and ChatGPT will send them an invitation to participate. Once they accept, if automated systems and trained reviewers detect you may be talking about suicide in a way that signals a serious safety concern, ChatGPT may notify your trusted contact and encourage them to check in with you.

Trusted contact is available for eligible users with personal ChatGPT accounts in supported regions. It is not available for Business, Enterprise, or Edu workspaces.

For more information about this feature and eligibility requirements, see

Trusted contact in ChatGPT

and our

blog post

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Memory sources and more personalized responses in ChatGPT

Starting today, we’re rolling out memory improvements to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users that make responses more personalized, useful, and continuous over time. ChatGPT can now better pull in relevant context from your past chats, saved memories, and, where available, files and connected Gmail app, to offer more tailored ideas, recommendations, and next steps. It is also faster at searching past conversations to find the right context, so you don’t have to repeat yourself as often.

We’re also introducing memory sources across all ChatGPT consumer plans, so you can see what information helped personalize a response and make edits if something is no longer relevant. Tap the Sources icon below the response to view relevant saved memories, past chats, and custom instructions. Plus and Pro users may also see files in their library and referenced emails from a connected Gmail account. If something is outdated or no longer relevant, you can correct it, delete it, or mark it as not relevant. Memory sources may not show every factor that shaped a response, and we’ll keep improving this view to make it more comprehensive over time. Memory sources are rolling out on the web and coming to mobile soon.

These updates are designed to make personalization more useful while keeping you in control. Memory sources are only shown within your account experience, and if you share a chat, those sources are not shown in the shared chat. You can delete chats, use temporary chats that do not use or update memory or appear in history, turn off memory, disconnect apps anytime, and manage whether your content is used to help improve our models.

We’re rolling out GPT-5.5 Instant as ChatGPT’s new default model.

It replaces GPT-5.3 Instant for all ChatGPT users and improves everyday answers across accuracy, clarity and conciseness, image understanding, STEM questions, and when ChatGPT decides to search the web.

GPT-5.5 Instant is more factually reliable, especially for prompts where accuracy matters most. It also gives tighter, more direct answers without losing useful details, asks fewer unnecessary follow-up questions, and reduces clutter like overformatting and gratuitous emojis.

For Plus and Pro users using chatgpt on web, GPT-5.5 Instant can more effectively use context from past chats, files, and Gmail, when connected, to make responses more relevant. This can help ChatGPT tailor suggestions, pick up ongoing work, and reduce the need to repeat context across conversations.

GPT-5.5 Instant is rolling out starting today to all ChatGPT users. Paid users can continue using GPT-5.3 Instant for three months through model configuration settings before it is retired.