A new shortcut aims to take the OpenAI ChatGPT chatbot and bring it to the forefront on the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch via the power of Apple. Shortcuts app.
There are plenty of ways to use ChatGPT on your Apple devices, from dedicated apps to the OpenAI website, but Federico Viticci has taken matters into his own hands and created what might just be his best shortcut. nowadays.
Enter S-GPT, an advanced shortcut that not only lets you talk to ChatGPT, but also integrates it into your own shortcuts.
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MacStories and Viticci in particular have been into shortcuts and what they can do for a long time, so it was no surprise when he was the one who released S-GPT. And the results are just as impressive as you might have expected.
“At a high level, S-GPT is a shortcut that lets you ask ChatGPT questions from an input box on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac; the answers are returned by ChatGPT and displayed in an alert on your devices. “, said the MacStories (opens in a new tab) post explains. “You can ask whatever you want, wait a few seconds, and get an answer from the assistant.”
But while you can only ask ChatGPT questions and give it basic commands on the web, things are different here because S-GPT can connect to other apps. An example includes sharing a web page with S-GPT via the share sheet and summarizing its content. You can even have S-GPT check your schedule in the Calendar app and then tell you how busy you’ll be.
There is more too. You want ChatGPT to create a Apple Music playlist? “Try asking, ‘Create me a playlist with 10 emo songs from the late 2000s’ or ‘I want a playlist with the best 15 songs by Boygenius members,’ suggests Viticci.
All of this is of course far beyond anything Siri can do, whether you use the best iphone lot or an aging iPhone 6s. And that’s pretty amazing before you even consider integrating S-GPT into your own workflows, making it another great way to replace Siri with ChatGPT.
You can download the S-GPT shortcut for free, but unfortunately you will need to register and agree to pay OpenAI for your API access. Luckily, it shouldn’t cost too much – Viticci said he’s been using S-GPT heavily for a month and only spent $1.50.