If you’re an Android user that’s been waiting for a dedicated ChatGPT app, your wait might finally be over.
OpenAI announced on Friday that the ChatGPT app for Android will officially start rolling out to users next week. If you have an Android phone and are interested in downloading the app, you can also pre-register for it now, and have it downloaded onto your phone when it’s officially ready.
The ChatGPT Android app is free to use and will sync your history across devices. So, if you’re already using ChatGPT on the web or your iPad your history will sync up.
ChatGPT can be used for everything from asking basic questions to writing your resume. It can also summarize articles from the web for you, create recipes, or even write articles you can use as a jumping-off spot for your own blog.
Last week, Open AI also added custom instructions on the platform. With those, you can tell ChatGPT certain details about yourself you’d like for it to remember and keep in mind when it responds to you.
For instance, you might tell the service you’re a third-grade science teacher, so whenever you ask for help writing lesson plans you’re specifically looking for lesson plans that will work for that age group. You could also tell the chatbot where you’re located, or how many people are in your family as a way of getting responses from it that are more tailored to your specific needs.
Like everything else, those custom instructions will sync across devices. That means you can go ahead and input some of those into the web version of the chatbot and they will be there in the Android app when you download it onto your phone.
For now, custom instructions are only available for people who pay for ChatGPT Plus; however, the feature is expected to roll out to other users in the coming weeks.
