Text Your ChatGPT Dot

Your dot can now live in your texts. Turn on Texting, and you can message it from iMessage or RCS like a contact, with the same memory and plugins it uses in ChatGPT.

What this helps you do

A dot is ChatGPT's always-on agent. It keeps working on your goals between conversations, on its own cloud computer, and it learns your preferences over time. OpenAI introduced dots in Introducing dots.

Texting means you don't have to open the app to reach it. Send a quick question about a project you already talked through in ChatGPT, and it answers with that context. You can send text, photos, or voice notes. And your dot can text you first when it has a relevant update.

Before you start

• ChatGPT Pro in the U.S. Texting your dot is a beta rolling out to Pro users in the United States. Access is limited, so it may not be on every Pro account yet. It isn't available in Business or Enterprise workspaces.
• A dot already set up. If you haven't made one, follow OpenAI's Getting started with your dot.
• Messaging turned on. iMessage on an iPhone, or RCS on an Android phone.
• The ChatGPT desktop app. OpenAI's help center says to use the desktop app to connect your phone.

Terms to know

• Dot: your personal always-on agent in ChatGPT. It has its own profile, memory, and connected plugins.
• iMessage: Apple's messaging service on iPhone.
• RCS (Rich Communication Services): the modern texting standard on Android phones that supports photos, read receipts, and longer messages.
• Memory: what ChatGPT remembers about you and your past conversations.
• Plugins: connections to your other apps, like mail or calendar, that your dot can use.
• Proactive texts: messages your dot sends you without you texting first.

Step-by-step

1. Turn on iMessage or RCS on your phone. On iPhone, check that iMessage is on in your Messages settings. On Android, check that RCS chats are on in your messaging app's settings.
2. Open the ChatGPT desktop app and go to your dot.
3. Open your dot's profile and select Texting.
4. Connect your phone. Follow the setup prompts to connect your phone number.
5. Send your first text from your phone's messaging app. Use the starter text in the Copy this section. You should get a reply in the same thread.
6. Test the shared memory. Ask about a project you've already discussed with your dot in ChatGPT. It should answer without you repeating the background.
7. Give it something to watch. Tell it what's worth texting you about, so the texts it sends first are useful.

Copy this

Send this as your first text to your dot. Replace each bracketed part.

Hi! From now on, text me about [PROJECT OR TOPIC].

Keep an eye on [WHAT TO WATCH, e.g. replies from a client or a deadline] and text me first only when [CONDITION, e.g. something needs my answer today].

Keep texts under three sentences. Ask me before you send anything to anyone or change anything in my apps.

To check you remember, tell me in one line where we left off on [PROJECT].

Things to know

• Same dot everywhere. Texts use the same memory and plugins as your dot in the ChatGPT app, so the conversation carries over.
• Private by design. Only you can text your dot, and your dot can only text you. Turning on texting doesn't give your dot or OpenAI access to your other text conversations.
• A third party carries the texts. OpenAI uses a provider called Linq to send and receive them. Keep that in mind before you text passwords or very sensitive details.
• Your dot asks before sensitive actions. You can set rules in ChatGPT for what it may do on its own.
• To pause texts, reply STOP. That stops your dot from sending texts.
• Dots themselves are rolling out to Pro and Business Premium users aged 18 and older in eligible markets. Texting is narrower: Pro, U.S. only, for now.

If something goes wrong

• You don't see a Texting option: the beta is limited to Pro users in the U.S. and is still rolling out. Business and Enterprise workspaces don't have it.
• Your texts don't go through: check that iMessage (iPhone) or RCS (Android) is turned on, then rerun the setup in the desktop app.
• Your dot doesn't remember your project: make sure you're texting the same dot you used in ChatGPT, and that memory is on.
• Too many texts: tell your dot exactly what's worth a text, or reply STOP to stop them.

Final check

You pass if you can text your dot from your phone, it replies in the same thread, and it answers a question about an earlier ChatGPT project without you re-explaining it.