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- The latest ChatGPT beta now lets you set ChatGPT as the default assistant on Android.
- This will let you invoke ChatGPT with buttons and gestures.
- Invoking ChatGPT through this launches the assistant’s voice mode.
Thanks to Android’s open nature, there is no dearth of digital assistants on Android flagships. However, one limitation many of these digital assistants face is that they cannot be set as the default assistant app on Android. So, when comparing Google’s Gemini to ChatGPT on Android, Gemini has an advantage in that users can easily trigger the digital assistant. This is changing, as you can now set ChatGPT as the default assistant app on Android.
With its v1.2025.070 beta on Android, users can now set ChatGPT as their device’s default assistant app. This lets them trigger ChatGPT using all the buttons and gestures they previously used to trigger Gemini.