There are a number of methods to make use of ChatGPT, with cellular apps for iOS and Android, desktop apps for macOS and Home windows, and an online app that you could entry in a browser. Nonetheless, not each platform has entry to the identical set of options. Should you primarily follow utilizing one platform, there could also be some options you are lacking out on.

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Customized GPTs (Browser Solely)

ChatGPT permits you to create your own custom GPTs to do particular jobs. For instance, you possibly can create a customized GPT that will help you construct PowerPoint shows, provide you with artistic writing prompts, clarify the principles of a sophisticated board recreation, or provide help to enhance your coding expertise. Making a customized GPT is pretty simple; you merely clarify to ChatGPT what you need the GPT to do, and it’ll create the GPT for you, which you’ll refine with additional prompts.

There may be additionally a library of GPTs which have been created by different folks so that you simply need not reinvent the wheel. You’ll be able to entry this assortment of GPTs on all ChatGPT platforms.

If you wish to create your personal customized GPT, nevertheless, then you definately’ll solely have the opportunity to take action utilizing ChatGPT in a browser. It isn’t potential to construct your personal GPT on cellular or desktop.

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ChatGPT Duties (Internet App for Full Performance)

Duties is a reasonably new function in ChatGPT that indicators step one in ChatGPT’s journey to turning into an agentic AI. Earlier than the discharge of the Duties function, ChatGPT would solely ever generate a response instantly after you entered a immediate. With Duties, nevertheless, you possibly can get ChatGPT to produce responses on a schedule, even when you do not have the app open on the time.

For instance, you possibly can ask ChatGPT to provide you a climate forecast at 8 am each morning, to create an amusing satirical cartoon each Sunday afternoon, or to remind you to place the rubbish out the night time earlier than it is resulting from be collected. You’ll be able to create scheduled duties in any of the ChatGPT platforms simply by asking ChatGPT to do a particular job at a set time. ChatGPT will then generate the scheduled job for you.

You’ll be able to create ChatGPT duties on any platform, in addition to pause them, change the directions, and reschedule them. Nonetheless, you possibly can solely entry the complete modifying options on the net app. For instance, it isn’t potential to utterly delete a scheduled job by asking ChatGPT on cellular or desktop; you possibly can solely delete it within the web app.

That is extra necessary than it sounds. Should you ask ChatGPT to delete a scheduled job on cellular or desktop, it will not delete it, it would merely pause it. The issue with that is that you simply’re solely allowed a most of 10 scheduled duties, and paused duties rely towards that whole. Except you delete a job within the internet app, your paused duties will shortly replenish your slots.

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ChatGPT Tasks (Internet App for Full Performance)

Projects is another relatively new feature of ChatGPT . Tasks provides you the flexibility to do one thing that many individuals who use ChatGPT usually have been wanting for a while: the flexibility to group your chats into folders.

Greater than that, nevertheless, you may also create your personal customized directions for every challenge, in addition to add recordsdata which might be accessible by any chats throughout the challenge. This successfully permits you to use Tasks to create a number of totally different customized variations of ChatGPT that you need to use for various duties.

As soon as you have created a challenge, you possibly can entry it from any platform. Initially, it was solely potential to create new initiatives on the net app, however now you can create initiatives on cellular and desktop, too.

Nonetheless, there’s a important limitation on these platforms: when you can create a challenge and add customized directions, it isn’t potential so as to add recordsdata to your Tasks on cellular or desktop. The one means you possibly can add recordsdata is utilizing the net app. It appears like a wierd limitation, as you possibly can add recordsdata to particular person chats inside a challenge on cellular and desktop however to not the challenge as an entire.

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Superior Voice Options (Cellular App for Full Performance)

Superior Voice is without doubt one of the options of ChatGPT that also impresses me essentially the most. ChatGPT is not simply capable of reply quick sufficient that it appears like a pure dialog. It additionally has extremely lifelike voice choices that use such spectacular intonation and rhythm that you could virtually consider you are speaking to an actual individual.

You’ll be able to even get ChatGPT to vary its voice. Earlier than the official ChatGPT Santa voice was launched over Christmas, I used to be capable of get a really realistic-sounding Santa through the use of the British male voice Arbor after which asking it to speak like Santa. The impression was on a par with the official Santa voice.

You need to use Superior Voice to speak to ChatGPT on all platforms, together with on desktop and web, however some key options are at present solely obtainable on cellular. On cellular, you possibly can add photos, take images, or share your telephone display screen after which focus on the photographs with ChatGPT utilizing voice. For instance, you possibly can take a photograph of a dying plant and ask for tips about convey it again to full well being.

Much more spectacular is the live video feature on cellular. You’ll be able to flip in your telephone digital camera and the dwell feed will seem within the ChatGPT Superior Voice window. You’ll be able to then ask ChatGPT about something that is seen. For instance, you possibly can level your telephone at your bookshelf, transfer the digital camera alongside the row of books, after which ask ChatGPT the place a particular e-book is positioned on the shelf.

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Connecting to Cloud Storage (Internet App Solely)

ChatGPT’s skill to investigate recordsdata and paperwork might be very helpful, however to take action, you should get the recordsdata into ChatGPT first. If in case you have recordsdata in cloud storage, you possibly can obtain them after which add them into ChatGPT, and for those who’re utilizing ChatGPT on cellular or desktop, that is your solely possibility.

On the net app, nevertheless, you could have the choice to hook up with Google Drive or Microsoft OneDrive if you click on the “+” (plus) icon so as to add a file to a chat. As soon as linked, you possibly can browse and choose recordsdata immediately out of your cloud storage accounts while not having to obtain them and reupload them to ChatGPT.

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Work With Apps (macOS Desktop App Solely)

This function is a bit totally different, because it’s one thing that is at present solely obtainable on the macOS desktop app. The Work with Apps function permits you to join suitable Mac apps to ChatGPT in order that ChatGPT can immediately entry the context of these apps.

The only instance is that you could join Apple Notes to ChatGPT. You’ll be able to then ask ChatGPT something you need concerning the observe that is at present open within the Notes app, and ChatGPT will be capable to entry it, with out you needing to repeat and paste it from one app to the opposite.

The function turns into much more helpful if you join code editors and IDEs comparable to XCode, VS Code, WebStorm, and PyCharm. You’ll be able to then use ChatGPT to test by or edit your code with out countless copying and pasting. You’ll be able to even join the Terminal app and get ChatGPT to generate commit messages.

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Taking Screenshots (Desktop App Solely)

One other function that is at present restricted to desktop is the flexibility to take screenshots which might be then uploaded to ChatGPT. Utilizing the net app, you possibly can solely add recordsdata, that means that it’s a must to take a screenshot first, put it aside, after which add it to ChatGPT. The identical is true on cellular.

On desktop, nevertheless, you possibly can take a screenshot immediately from throughout the app. Not solely are you able to seize full screenshots of your complete display screen, however you may also choose a at present open app, which is able to screenshot solely the contents of that app, even when it isn’t the app at present in focus.

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Drag and Drop (iPad Solely)

This one is presumably essentially the most area of interest function of all, as a result of it is at present solely obtainable within the ChatGPT iOS app on an iPad. On an iPad, you possibly can faucet and maintain a response from ChatGPT, and drag it out of the ChatGPT app and into one other app.

Should you’re using your iPad in Split View, for instance, you possibly can shortly and simply drag responses from the ChatGPT app into Notes, into an e-mail, or right into a Phrase doc. You are able to do the identical on different platforms by copying and pasting, however the drag-and-drop function is for some cause unique to the iPad app.

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You need to use ChatGPT on cellular, desktop, or in a browser. Nonetheless, for those who solely follow utilizing one platform, you might be unaware of a number of the options which might be discovered on the others.

It may be a bit irritating that you simply’re not capable of obtain all the pieces you wish to do inside a particular app. Not with the ability to delete scheduled duties besides on the net app is way from ultimate, particularly if you’re not in a position so as to add any new scheduled duties till you have deleted some. Hopefully, a few of these options will discover their means onto different platforms sooner or later.