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Alex Blake

ChatGPT update brings a big multitasking boost to Macs – but getting it can prove confusing

A MacBook on a table showing the ChatGPT Mac app.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot runs in your web browser, but the company has also launched a macOS desktop version of its artificial intelligence (AI) helper. Now, thanks to a newly released version of the ChatGPT Mac app, OpenAI has made it easier to multitask with the popular AI chatbot.

With the latest update, OpenAI has changed how ChatGPT works when you have other apps open. Previously, you could press the Option-Space keyboard shortcut to open ChatGPT’s Spotlight-like search box on your Mac. After you’d typed your request and pressed Return, ChatGPT’s main window would come to the front, even if it had previously been hidden behind a different app’s window.

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