ChatGPT has become a widely used tool on both computers and mobile phones. While the official Android app isn’t perfect, it still offers: access this AI from your own app. Beyond mobile devices, there are even those bringing ChatGPT to more devices, like smartwatches with Wear OS.

The ChatGPT app allows you to ask questions and chat with the chatbot for AI in its GPT 3.5-based version or GPT-4 version (available with subscription). By now it was clear that access to the app was required to use it. But its latest update adds a really useful and quick shortcut.

How to configure quick access to ChatGPT on Android phones

A new update to the ChatGPT app for Android, available directly on the Google Play Store, Add a button to access ChatGPT directly from the quick settings panel Mobile as shared by Mishaal Rahman on X (Twitter).

This means that to access ChatGPT, no matter what screen you’re on, you just need to swipe down from the top of the screen and press the little button with the ChatGPT logo.

It’s even possible Access ChatGPT while in another app Like YouTube, Telegram or any other.

Enabling quick access is quite simple. For Samsung Galaxy phones, follow these steps:

• Swipe down twice from the top of the screen to access quick settings panel.
• Press the button shaped like pen.
• Press buttons To organise On each screen, configure the ChatGPT option to appear both among the most used options (visible with a single swipe) and in the quick settings panel (visible with a double swipe). just necessary Slide the ChatGPT icon to your desired location.

The result will look like the image below, depending on the position you set the button in. There is now a button to launch ChatGPT with one click when accessing the quick settings of the mobile phone.

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 pen.
• Find the ChatGPT button among the available options and drag Go to the options that are part of the quick settings, to the location where you want the button to be.

And that’s it. On any Android mobile phone, when you launch ChatGPT from the quick settings panel, you can chat with the AI ​​and ask questions through the floating animated window that appears on the screen of the application we are in. For a more detailed record of our activity and responses in text form, We can access the application by pressing the small button in the lower right corner..

Since enabling this option, I admit to using ChatGPT more often on my Android mobile, even to ask random questions like which movies I might see a supporting actor from the Succession series in, something one would normally Google and this would send me to some suggested results like Wikipedia, but in most cases ChatGPT gives me faster and more dynamic response in such situations.

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