With the news that OpenAI’s ChatGPT Voice feature is now available to all users for free, you can ditch Siri as the main voice assistant on your iPhone — well, specifically on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max. Apple’s latest smartphones support the ability to configure the new Action button, which replaces the iPhone’s existing mute button since its debut. Through the new settings menu, users can turn the button on for other uses beyond silencing the ringer.
Depending on your personal preference, you can bind the action button to any number of tasks — it can open the camera, turn on the flashlight, record a voice memo, open the Magnifier app, allow you to quickly use the accessibility feature, or, launch an app shortcut.
The latter is the option you want to use to turn the button into a trigger for ChatGPT.
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Prior to Wednesday’s announcement that made voice access free for all ChatGPT users, associating this iOS shortcut with an action button would only throw an error, as voice access required ChatGPT+ subscription. Now, that’s no longer an issue, meaning anyone can ditch Siri in favor of ChatGPT by configuring their action button to trigger ChatGPT’s voice access feature.
To do this, you’ll need to swipe down to the Action Button menu in the iOS Settings screen, then swipe to the Shortcut option near the end. You’ll then click the blue “Choose Shortcut” button and then scroll down through the alphabetical list of supported apps to click “ChatGPT.” On the next screen, simply tap on the shortcut on “Start Voice Chat” to associate that specific action with the button.
Note that you will need to obtain Abbreviations The downloaded app on your iPhone, if it isn’t already downloaded.
Once configured, you can press and hold the action button to start a ChatGPT audio session. Users can choose from 5 different and diverse voices for their ChatGPT assistant – Ember, Sky, Breeze, Juniper, and Cove. You can then simply ask your questions directly to ChatGPT and hear their answers – like Siri but smarter.
It should be noted that ChatGPT is not the only app that supports the new feature on the iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max. You can also use this button for other common tasks, such as setting your favorites Starbucks Order a coffee, start a workout, listen to a song, call a favorite person, create a new note, and more.
A number of third-party apps have also adopted action button shortcut features, including music apps such as Air scrolling, Albums, Endel, Long play, Track music, MusicsharepurAnd The tape is; Recipes and food apps such as Amber, CaloriesAnd falls apart; Facilities like Cardpointersopal, Sleep cycle for children, Tide guideAnd Water monitor; Productivity apps like do it, Drafts, Focused work, Good links, Look for, Rewind, Strips, Tasks, Things, ideas, put a markAnd timing; Photography applications such as Halide; Workout apps like to lift; Reading apps like Books and Instapaper; Meditation apps like Zenitizer; Entertainment applications such as Film tracker And Sokka; And even other AI tools like Petey and others.
Apple’s first-party apps are also supported.
If none of them fit the bill, you can also configure your own custom shortcuts by tapping the plus sign at the top right of the Shortcuts app home screen, then tapping New Shortcut, Rename (to add your own shortcut )Name), then “Done”.
Next, you’ll tap Add Action to see a list of available action categories, each of which you can tap (such as Mied or Web) to find the action you need and add it to your shortcut. To add another action, swipe up on the search field at the bottom of the screen, then choose an action again. When you’re done, click Done and the new custom shortcut will be added to your collection, where it can be found in the All Shortcuts and My Shortcuts categories. When this process is complete, you can then return to the action button menu and assign your custom shortcut to the button.
But we feel that adding ChatGPT support is among the better options here, given the AI-powered chatbot’s usefulness over a number of daily queries to flag Siri’s lack of capabilities.
Now, if only we could make him the default assistant on the iPhone…