ChatGPT is OpenAI’s extraordinarily helpful chatbot for answering questions. Here is the right way to use the generative AI device in Apple’s Notes app in macOS.
Apple Intelligence is now built-in with OpenAi’s ChatGPT in macOS, advert properly as iOS and iPadOS. Many options of ChatGPT are built-in with Apple apps beginning in macOS Sequoia 15.1, and iOS and iPadOS 18.2.
Whereas Apple has said assist for Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT are evolving and nonetheless in progress, some options are working and included in Apple’s working methods. Anticipate an additional phased rollout of Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT within the close to future.
For an entire assessment of recent Apple Intelligence iOS and iPadOS options, see our article iOS 18.1 & iPadOS 18.1 assessment: child steps with Apple Intelligence.
With a purpose to use ChatGPT in Notes, it’s a must to have a subscription to ChatGPT Plus ($20/month), Professional, Enterprise, Workforce, or Academic. OpenAI has said assist for ChatGPT free tier integration in macOS might be coming later in 2025.
OpenAI has a pricing web page, and at $20/month, the Plus tier is pretty affordable. Plus or larger additionally offers you entry to o1 and o1-mini fashions.
If you have already got Apple Intelligence and the ChatGPT extension enabled, skip to the final part “Utilizing ChatGPT in Notes”. Even so, the subsequent part beneath has some helpful information on the place ChatGPT is out there in Apple apps.
What’s included
Within the above variations of Apple’s working methods, Apple states Apple Intelligence is built-in into Notes, Images, Siri, Safari, and different apps with Writing Instruments. ChatGPT can be built-in into among the apps.
For instance, now you can use ChatGPT prompts in Siri for lookups. Apple Intelligence Writing Instruments work wherever there’s a textual content subject.
Writing Instruments embrace summarizing textual content, rewriting textual content, proofreading, and even composing textual content. Apple additionally offers summaries within the type of Notification summaries, internet web page summaries, and others.
Summaries for internet pages in browsers are notably helpful. Some third-party browsers equivalent to Firefox additionally assist summaries.
You may flip off Notification summaries individually in System Settings->Notifications->Summarize Notifications.
Apple guarantees that utilizing Apple Intelligence doesn’t ship your knowledge to Apple (though some components of Siri can nonetheless require this).
Turning on Apple Intelligence
Earlier than you need to use ChatGPT in Apple’s apps you have to first activate Apple Intelligence within the System Settings app (or the Settings app in iOS).
To take action, open System Settings within the /Functions folder in your Startup Disk (or from the Apple menu), then scroll down and click on on Apple Intelligence & Siri on the left.
Subsequent, on the correct, click on Get Apple Intelligence to start the setup course of. After clicking the button it will likely be changed with textual content studying “In Progress…” whereas the extra software program is downloaded and put in.
This may occasionally take some time (as much as an hour or extra on some Macs).
Watch for Apple Intelligence to put in and arrange.
As soon as that’s accomplished, you will get a notification that your Mac is able to use Apple Intelligence. The System Settings button will reappear, however this time it reads Set Up Apple Intelligence.
Clicking that button shows a sheet that walks you thru establishing every function of Apple Intelligence. This isn’t not like the sheets that seem if you arrange a brand new Mac.
Step one is selecting which apps use summaries. You may skip this half by clicking Set Up Later if you don’t need summaries.
Click on “Set Up Apple Intelligence” to get began.
Subsequent, you will step by way of Siri setup, however thoughts that there is no option to opt-out on the sheet at this level. The setup notifies you that Siri might ship a few of your knowledge to Apple (together with audio), however that the info isn’t tied to your Apple account.
Click on Proceed, then choose a Siri Voice from the listing supplied. Click on Proceed once more.
Now the sheet offers you an opportunity to decide out of sending your knowledge to Apple if you need. Click on Not now to opt-out, then click on Proceed.
Apple Intelligence and Siri are actually totally enabled and you may flip both off or again on through the use of the 2 sliders that seem in System Settings. Additionally now enabled on the backside of the Apple Intelligence & Siri pane is an Extensions part, considered one of which is for ChatGPT:
Apple Intelligence put in and enabled in macOS Sequoia.
Turning on ChatGPT
Go forward and click on ChatGPT beneath Extensions to arrange ChatGPT. There’s additionally a slider for figuring out if you wish to enable Siri to suggest utilizing ChatGPT in some cases.
Subsequent, click on the Set Up… button subsequent to Use ChatGPT.
You may now get one other sheet telling you what ChatGPT can do: combine with Siri, compose textual content in Writing Instruments, and work with a ChatGPT account. Click on Subsequent – which leads you to a different sheet informing you that the Mac works with ChatGPT in a method that preserves your privateness:
- You resolve what will get shared with ChatGPT
- You may flip ChatGPT off in System Settings any time
- You should utilize ChatGPT with an account, or use it anonymously
If you wish to use ChatGPT with an account, click on the Use ChatGPT with an Account button. In any other case, click on the Allow ChatGPT button to make use of it anonymously.
Click on “Set Up…” to start the setup of the ChatGPT extension.
There’s additionally a privateness notice button that provides you a textual content abstract of Apple’s and OpenAI’s coverage on ChatGPT privateness within the extension. In order for you, you’ll be able to Choose All (Command-A) on the textual content, copy it by Management-clicking, then paste it right into a file in TextEdit or one other editor for later assessment.
Of specific notice are these paragraphs:
“If there isn’t any specific request to make use of ChatGPT, your request is analyzed to find out whether or not ChatGPT might need helpful outcomes. If it does, Siri will ask whether or not you wish to use ChatGPT. When you select, Siri will ship your request to ChatGPT and current the reply immediately. You can also select to disable Siri asking you to substantiate whether or not Siri ought to ship a request to ChatGPT by going to Settings > Apple Intelligence & Siri > ChatGPT, and tapping to show off Verify ChatGPT Requests.
Once you use Writing Instruments and visible intelligence with the Digicam Management, it is possible for you to to decide on whether or not you wish to use the ChatGPT extension for every of those options individually.”
The notice then goes on to elucidate that, in nameless mode, it’s OpenAI’s official coverage that it should not retailer requests, or their outcomes (except required by regulation), and it should not use requests to coach its fashions. Connected paperwork are additionally not saved in nameless mode.
In nameless mode, OpenAI doesn’t obtain any information about your Apple account, and your IP deal with is hidden from OpenAI servers. Common location data is nevertheless despatched for the needs of “enabling ChatGPT to stop fraud and adjust to relevant regulation”.
You may flip off ChatGPT and its interplay with Apple Intelligence within the Extensions pane at any time, in the identical method that you simply turned it on. You too can go away Apple Intelligence and/or Siri turned on, even for those who flip the ChatGPT extension off.
After you have learn and understood the Privateness assertion, return to the Extension pane, and click on Allow ChatGPT. As soon as ChatGPT is enabled in System Settings, you’ll be able to later click on the Signal In button, and switch it off completely utilizing the slider.
OpenAI “Superior Capabilities” are free as much as a sure restrict, then primary ChatGPT performance is out there till twenty-four hours have elapsed.
There’s additionally a slider for confirming Siri requests.
This completes the arrange of each Apple Intelligence and the ChatGPT extension.
Utilizing ChatGPT in Notes
As soon as Apple Intelligence and ChatGPT have been enabled, now you can use them in Writing Instruments in any app that helps textual content enhancing – together with the Notes app.
Presently to make use of ChatGPT/Notes integration it’s a must to be signed right into a ChatGPT account as a result of OpenAI has to confirm your paid pricing tier. When you’re not signed in, return to the Extension pane in System Settings for ChatGPT and click on the Signal In button.
You may additionally have to go to the Settings web page on your ChatGPT account, allow the Works With Apps setting, then click on Handle Apps to pick out which apps you need to enable ChatGPT to work with.
To make use of ChatGPT in Notes, open the Notes app, choose any notice on the left, then press Possibility+Shift+1 in your keyboard. This brings up the ChatGPT immediate in which you’ll be able to kind a query to get a solution for the data contained within the chosen notice.
If, for some cause, the Notice cannot be processed, ChatGPT servers cannot be reached, otherwise you’re not signed in to ChatGPT, you will hear the macOS system sound.
There’s additionally a voice mode you’ll be able to allow to manage ChatGPT.
What’s subsequent?
ChatGPT integration with Apple apps is thrilling as a result of it guarantees to take automation to an entire new degree. This consists of lookups, summaries, enhancing, condensing, composing, and extra.
What would actually be cool can be for Apple to offer another automation options from a UI standpoint (very similar to AppleScript does right this moment). For instance, one may think about telling ChatGPT to pick out all notes with sure titles or content material, after which merging them, condensing their content material, eradicating components of content material, or sending them someplace else.
Voice management mixed with UI interplay may very well be actually highly effective.
Think about having 100 notes within the Notes app and telling ChatGPT to “Merge all notes containing Apple-related content material”. That might save hours.
The probabilities could also be infinite.
