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OpenAI enhances ChatGPT app with this hidden feature

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Why This Matters

OpenAI's latest updates to the ChatGPT app introduce a hidden gesture for quick adjustment of prompt effort levels and a new table of contents feature for easier navigation of lengthy conversations. These enhancements improve user experience by offering more control and streamlined access to information, which can boost productivity and engagement for both consumers and developers. As AI tools become more intuitive, these features exemplify how user-centric design can drive broader adoption and innovation in the tech industry.

Key Takeaways

OpenAI recently added a new feature to the ChatGPT app: a hidden gesture that lets you instantly set the effort level of a prompt. ChatGPT also introduced a new way to easily navigate longer conversations. Meanwhile, the default model used by ChatGPT has changed since arriving last month.

Long-press gesture to set intelligence level

First up is a new gesture for assigning the intelligence level of a prompt before pressing send.

Long-pressing the send arrow icon on a message in the ChatGPT app on mobile will invoke the intelligence level picker.

This is basically a way to set how much effort ChatGPT should spend on a prompt before serving up the response.

For example, you can choose between Instant, Thinking, and Extended before sending a message to ChatGPT.

Thinking and Extended can be useful when the Instant response doesn’t give you the results you expected. Intelligence level options will depend on OpenAI subscription level.

This new gesture is a natural and fluid alternative to tapping through menus to switch Intelligence levels, especially as OpenAI pushes the automatic model picker.

You can now long press send on ChatGPT to pick a different model for just that message without switching your default!

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