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TL;DR
- OpenAI is testing direct messaging features in ChatGPT’s mobile app, along with group chats.
- Hints for the DM function were spotted in the code for ChatGPT’s Android app.
- Sora, OpenAI’s video generation and sharing app, already allows users to have public profiles and send DMs to others.
Update: Oct 16, 2025 (09:15 AM ET): We were able to reverse engineer the latest beta build to get a glimpse of how DMs in ChatGPT could work. While it’s not functional at the moment, we can see that ChatGPT lets you share individual responses as well as the entire chat with others. We also see the option to block other users.
Take a look: