ChatGPT 4.0 is coming to iPhone, iPad, and Mac free with iOS 18 and beyond

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Apple has confirmed that ChatGPT is coming to Mac, iPhone, and iPad later this year, with support for other AI tools also on the way. 

The company announced the new integration at WWDC 2024. With iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS 15, ChatGPT 4o will be available for free to users on all of these platforms. The LLM will work with Siri, and includes integrated writing tools, too. 

ChatGPT on iPhone

The move to bring ChatGPT to iPhone complements Apple Intelligence, Apple's own AI push to expand the utility of iPhone, iPad, and Mac. The integration features a prompt that will ask users "Do you want me to use ChatGPT to do that?" The integration can power features like asking for recipes, Type To Siri, asking questions related to documents, and more. 

ChatGPT 4.0 will be available for free to users on all of these platforms, but it also supports users with paid accounts, too. ChatGPT will be leveraged when iOS, macOS, and iPadOS recognize that you need a heftier large language model with more current, up-to-date, information. The news follows months of a rumored partnership between Apple and Open AI. 

However, it's not an exclusive partnership. Apple has also confirmed that other AI LLMs will be made available on iPhone, iPad, and Mac at some point in the future too. It doesn't specify which ones though, or give a more specific time frame. 

We're covering the WWDC 2024 event as it happens. Follow WWDC 2024 LIVE here. Or check out our roundups for all the latest on the newly announced iOS 18, iPadOS 18, macOS 15, watchOS 11, visionOS 2, and Apple Intelligence.

Stephen Warwick
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Stephen Warwick has written about Apple for five years at iMore and previously elsewhere. He covers all of iMore's latest breaking news regarding all of Apple's products and services, both hardware and software. Stephen has interviewed industry experts in a range of fields including finance, litigation, security, and more. He also specializes in curating and reviewing audio hardware and has experience beyond journalism in sound engineering, production, and design. Before becoming a writer Stephen studied Ancient History at University and also worked at Apple for more than two years. Stephen is also a host on the iMore show, a weekly podcast recorded live that discusses the latest in breaking Apple news, as well as featuring fun trivia about all things Apple. Follow him on Twitter @stephenwarwick9

7 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Bla1ze
    I don't know how I feel about all that integration. It sounds like Apple is doing the right thing by asking me if I want to use ChatGPT before using it, but the fact it's so deeply integrated in the first place leaves me slightly unsettled. It's one thing if I decide to install something from OpenAI and use it myself, but having it interwoven at a system level is something entirely different.
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  • Just_Me_D
    Bla1ze said:
    I don't know how I feel about all that integration. It sounds like Apple is doing the right thing by asking me if I want to use ChatGPT before using it, but the fact it's so deeply integrated in the first place leaves me slightly unsettled. It's one thing if I decide to install something from OpenAI and use it myself, but having it interwoven at a system level is something entirely different.

    I’m with you on this.
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  • EdwinG
    Bla1ze said:
    I don't know how I feel about all that integration. It sounds like Apple is doing the right thing by asking me if I want to use ChatGPT before using it, but the fact it's so deeply integrated in the first place leaves me slightly unsettled. It's one thing if I decide to install something from OpenAI and use it myself, but having it interwoven at a system level is something entirely different.
    I wonder if it would be able to disable system-wide, instead of a prompt by prompt basis.
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  • FFR
    I hope this is opt-in as well.
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  • Annie_M
    I’m also leery about this.
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  • EdwinG
    EdwinG said:
    I wonder if it would be able to disable system-wide, instead of a prompt by prompt basis.
    So, according to Jason Snell on Upgrade (https://overcast.fm/+Fcm_GXYrw/1:18:57), it’s disabled by default.

    A reasonable assumption is that you can disable and enable the feature at will.
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  • Ledsteplin
    I'm pretty sure Apple has studied this at great length, including all security and safety issues. They're not going to give us anything nefarious. This ain't Facebook or Google. It's Apple. And they're doing it right, like they do everything else. I have no reason not to trust this. Actually, I'm mostly interested in the image editing part of Apple Intelligence.
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