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Evening Standard
Technology
Saqib Shah

You can now use Siri with ChatGPT on iPhones

A handy little update to the official ChatGPT app means you can now use Apple’s Siri to talk to the chatbot.

The useful trick works through an Apple feature called Shortcuts that lets you automate tasks on your iPhone.

Once set up, you can basically ask Siri to fetch answers from ChatGPT. It’s kind of like rewiring Siri’s brain to make the otherwise limited digital assistant a lot smarter. Until Apple gives the voice bot an AI language upgrade, this is the next best thing.

OpenAI launched the free ChatGPT iPhone app in the US last month, and quickly brought it to the UK. Although the app already offers a voice input feature that relies on its Whisper speech-recognition system, linking it to Siri means you can also use it on other Apple devices like a HomePod smart speaker.

Setting up the new feature is a breeze - here’s what you need to do.

How to get Siri to work with ChatGPT

First, make sure to update the OpenAI ChatGPT app on your iPhone.

Now, head to the Shortcuts app, which is available on any iPhone running iOS 12 or later.

Here, you can click the plus icon in the top-right corner and search for ChatGPT to set up the default Shortcut.

However, if you want to customise it, then you should click on the Shortcuts button in the top-left corner, and you should see ChatGPT under “App Shortcuts.”

Now, select “Add to shortcut” and tweak it how you want. For instance, you can set it to react to a specific command, such as “Hey Siri, Ask AI” instead of the standard prompt “Hey Siri, Ask ChatGPT”.

Watch out for ChatGPT clones

Within three weeks of its launch, the OpenAI ChatGPT app was downloaded 5 million times, according to data.ai.

The bot landed in an App Store full of clones and duplicates with similar-sounding names, some of which were using shady tactics to charge users for their services.

Thankfully, you can usually spot these dubious “fleeceware” apps by their low review scores. Google and Apple also removed some of the worst rip-offs after they were contacted by cybersecurity researchers.

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