Technical explanation:
iOS apps cannot add systemwide actions in context menus, like for text selection. At best, they can create a sharing extension to have their app shown in the share sheet (page where you select who you send something to) and potentially add an action for easier discovery.
The only place they can add a systemwide actions is in their own app, hence why only the ChatGPT app has the Ask ChatGPT action.
You guys are actually using chat GPT?
Yeah, but why are you asking like you wonder?
have you tried looking up anything recently? the internet sucks, and it’s only getting worse.
If I ask the lying machine, I’ll at least get an answer. There’s a not insignificant chance that the answer will be wrong, but at least it’s an answer.
Bwahahahahaha a wrong answer is not an answer. Thats how misinformation spreads. SMH
laugh all you want. This is the reality we live in. It sucks and I hate it, but there’s not much I can do about it.
Just wait for the bubble to pop. In the meantime learn to use your brain while others are giving themselves brain atrophy.
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Is this some sort of iPhone thing I’m not getting, or what?
When you select text, you get options like Cut/Copy/Paste, Look Up, etc. Text things.
Apps can add their own actions next to these, such as the ChatGPT app adding the Ask ChatGPT action.
The thing is, iOS does not allow custom actions to be used outside the app which added them. So the Ask ChatGPT action only appears in the ChatGPT app and nowhere else where one would benefit from a quick shortcut like that.
The action is now mostly useless if it can’t serve the purpose of being a shortcut to ChatGPT from any text selection anywhere, because once you’re in the ChatGPT app, you could just ask - shortcut not needed.
The context menu can be controlled by the app, which is why you see “Ask ChatGPT” only within their app. Everywhere else, the context menu is the default one of Apple. Apple’s AI tanked, which I believe is a reason you do not have it in the context menu.
Or how about you think for yourself. Don’t plop your brain in a jar and outsource your own mental processes.
