ChatGPT has become a widely used tool on both computers and mobile phones. Its official Android app is not perfect, but it still offers the access to this artificial intelligence from your own app. And beyond mobile, there are those who have even brought ChatGPT to more devices, such as smart watches with Wear OS.
The ChatGPT app allows you to ask questions and chat with the chatbot so that the AI, either in its version based on GPT-3.5 or in its GPT-4 version (which is accessed by subscription). Until now, to use the app it was obviously necessary to access the app. But its latest update adds a really useful and fast shortcut.
How to configure quick access to ChatGPT on Android phones
A recent update to the ChatGPT app for Android, available directly from Google Play StoreIt allows add a button to access ChatGPT directly from the quick settings panel of mobile, as shared by Mishaal Rahman on X (Twitter).
This means that to access ChatGPT you will only need to swipe down from the top of the screen and press the small button with the ChatGPT logo, no matter what screen you are on.
It is even possible access ChatGPT while in another app like YouTube, Telegram or any other.
Activating quick access is quite simple. On Samsung Galaxy phones, follow these steps:
- Swipe down from the top of the screen twice to access the quick settings panel.
- Press the button shaped like pencil.
- Press the buttons Edit on each screen, and configure the ChatGPT option to appear both among the most used options (with a single swipe) and in the quick settings panel (which appears with a double swipe). It is only necesary slide the ChatGPT icon to the position you want.
The result will look like the image below, depending on the position you set the button. Now, when accessing the mobile’s quick settings there is the button to start ChatGPT with the push of a button.
On mobile phones like the Google Pixel, the process is very similar:
- Access quick settings panel by swiping down twice from the top of the screen.
- Press the button shaped like pencil.
- Find the ChatGPT button among the available options and drag it to the options that are part of the quick settings, in the position you want the button to be.
And that’s it. On any Android mobile, when you start ChatGPT from the quick settings panel, you can chat and ask questions with the AI through a floating animated window that appears on the screen of the application in which we are. For a more detailed record of our activity and responses in text, we can access the app by pressing the small button in the lower right corner.
Since I activated this option, I confess that I am using ChatGPT more frequently on my Android mobile, even to ask random questions such as in which movies I could have seen a supporting actor from the Succession seriessomething I would normally search on Google and get
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