Openai movements have been successful and for weeks ago he released the advanced voice mode even for free chatgpt users, and just yesterday announced the arrival of Operator, his AI agent who performs web tasks automatically for the user. Now a new version of Chatgpt In Android it allows to invoke chatbot with buttons and gestures.
This experience has been available on Android for months, although a third -party app to configure ChatgPT such as the Default assistant From the settings and thus be able to invoke it with a long touch in the ignition button, as is done with Gemini in a Samsung Galaxy S25 ultra or other Android mobile.
Herein Titans struggle between Google and Openai A new sand has just been established in which Chatgpt can now compete directly against Gemini, since by default the OpenAi chatbot could not be used as the assistant, but with the last update to the beta it can already be configured from the settings.
And it is a new sand or space because until now Gemini had played with advantage In an Android mobile to be able to be easily invoked by the user. Yes, perplexity for a few weeks had been updated to be able to configure it as the assistant, but with Chatgpt the experience had been more complicated to achieve.
In the Version 1.2025.070 Chatgpt beta on Android can already be put to OpenAi chatbot as the assistant. So all the buttons and gestures that have previously been used with Gemini will now be worth chatgpt. Which means that when making a long touch on the ignition button, the advanced chatgpt voice mode will begin or when making the gesture up from the bottom of the screen.
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To round the experience, the chatgpt app has an adjustment that is basic for the use of its advanced voice mode on an Android mobile: background conversations. What he does is that if this voice mode begins, even if the screen is turned off or in another application you can continue with the conversation with OpenAi’s AI.
This adjustment is in “configuration” in Chatgpt, precisely in the “voice” section and appears under the option to choose the “voice” for OpenAi AI. It is activated, and you can even have conversations With the screen off of the mobile to greatly expand the experience.
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With this update, according to Android AuthorityChatgpt puts at the same height as Gemini on an Android mobile and thus chatbot users can invoke it in a simple way with a advanced voice mode which has shown that it is well ahead that Google’s Gemini Live himself that, although he has progressed a lot in recent months, costs him a little more the natural conversation that does occur with Chatgpt.
