Be sure to include the US country code at the start of the number to ensure it’s added correctly. You’ll also be prompted to give the new contact a name: “ChatGPT” is the obvious choice here, but you can pick something else if you prefer. You’ll then have a new option in your contacts list, which you can tap to start a chat.
You can connect your ChatGPT account by tapping the ChatGPT label at the top of the conversation, then following the Link your ChatGPT account URL listed onscreen. This isn’t actually necessary to interact with the bot, but it means your WhatsApp conversations with ChatGPT will be synced to your account. If you’re a paying user, it also means you’ll get your higher usage limits and access to smarter models. And if you link your account before the free chatbot access ends in January, your chat history within WhatsApp will be preserved in your ChatGPT account.
From this point on, you can interact with ChatGPT just as you would with any of your other WhatsApp contacts. Tap the contact name at the top of your chat to manage its settings. You’re able to change the wallpaper, mute notifications, choose whether or not images are saved to your phone, and lock the chat to keep it hidden from view, for example.
Switch back to the official ChatGPT apps for the web or mobile, and if you’ve connected your account, you’ll see your WhatsApp chats logged here as well. You can carry on the conversation from the official apps, but anything you say from this point won’t be synced back to the chats in WhatsApp.
What You Can Do in WhatsApp
ChatGPT for WhatsApp includes an image generator.David Nield
A lot of the basic functionality that you get with ChatGPT elsewhere is also available inside WhatsApp. You can ask ChatGPT questions, get it to summarize something you give it, have it translate or tweak text, use it to brainstorm ideas, or even get help with coding if you want to do this inside a WhatsApp chat.
