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How to use ChatGPT dots
Set up your first ChatGPT dot on desktop or in the mobile app, connect apps, assign a first task, and understand approvals and plan eligibility.
TAG
Dots
Browse published guides and troubleshooting notes collected under this tag.
Quick Start
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Guides
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Setup
How to create a ChatGPT dot on mobile
You can now create a ChatGPT dot in the iOS and Android app. Steps, what you can set up on your phone, who is eligible, and what still needs a computer.
Workflow
Dots Voice Notes to App Prototype: Build a Reviewable First Version
Turn a spoken idea into a scoped app brief, compare candidate approaches, and review a prototype with explicit checks and approval boundaries.
Product
How ChatGPT dots works with Chat, Work and Codex
How a ChatGPT dot starts work in Codex, continues existing threads, uses ChatGPT and Codex context, and reviews or edits Scheduled Tasks in ChatGPT Work.
Case study
How Sam Altman Uses Dots: Two Workflows Worth Testing
An attributed reading of Sam Altman’s Every interview, with practical starting points for morning briefing, email triage, and voice-to-prototype work.
Workflow
OpenAI Dots Morning Briefing and Email Triage: A Practical Guide
Build a reviewable morning summary and urgent-message policy with named sources, quiet hours, copyable prompts, and manual checks.
Access
Why ChatGPT dots isn't showing for you
Not seeing ChatGPT dots? Check plan, age, region and rollout, update the mobile app, and learn which OpenAI pages are newer after the Oct 9 update.
Control
ChatGPT Dots Auto-review: How Action Approvals Work
Understand how ChatGPT dots Auto-review checks planned actions, uses existing approval, and handles blocked steps and required confirmations.
Workspace
ChatGPT Dots Cloud Computer: Access and Permissions
Learn how a ChatGPT dot’s cloud computer, browser, optional local-computer access, and plugin permissions work, based on OpenAI’s documentation.
Control
ChatGPT Dots Controls: Custom Rules and Approvals
Understand ChatGPT dots Activity View, Custom Rules, approvals, and sensitive actions that require you to take over, using OpenAI’s published guidance.
Access
Is ChatGPT dots free? Pricing and availability
Who can get ChatGPT dots: Pro, Business Premium and Enterprise beta, 18+, region limits, the first-month usage note, and whether Plus is included.
Safety
Safety, sign-in, and data
OpenAI describes GPT-6 Astra’s scope, secure sign-in, training controls, and read-only proactive research.
Organizations
Specialist dots for organizations
OpenAI describes specialist dots as organization-owned agents in focused enterprise pilots, plus work with Microsoft on Agent 365.
Channels
Where ChatGPT dots works
Desktop app, desktop web, iOS and Android apps, Slack and Teams: where you can create and use a ChatGPT dot after the October 2026 mobile update.