Apple Intelligence has been around for a while now. The Cupertino giant’s suite of AI-powered features added new usability to its mobile devices. At launch, Apple announced that the platform would be integrated with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Now, it’s about to get a whole lot smarter. The firm has confirmed that with the release of iPhone’s iOS 26, its ChatGPT integration will be upgraded to use OpenAI’s latest and most powerful model, GPT-5.
This upcoming move will give Apple Intelligence a boost in capabilities. The current system taps into the powerful GPT-4o model. However, the new GPT-5 is a “frontier model” that brings enhanced reasoning, better coding tools, and improved voice and video perception. This means when Siri reaches out to ChatGPT for a task Apple’s own systems can’t handle, the answer will be more accurate, comprehensive, and helpful than ever before.
OpenAI’s GPT-5 will reach your iPhone with Apple Intelligence in iOS 26
The ChatGPT integration is a key part of Apple’s strategy, but it’s important to remember that it’s completely optional. If you choose to enable it, you can use it for a variety of tasks, including web searches, document queries, and Apple’s Google Lens-like Visual Intelligence feature on the iPhone 15 Pro and later models.
But, as reported by 9to5Mac, the GPT-5 upgrade isn’t the only big thing coming with iOS 26. Apple is also adding several new features to the platform. One of the most exciting is Live Translation, which will be able to interpret conversations in real time across apps like FaceTime and Messages. This is an impressive feature that will make cross-language communication effortless.
For those concerned about privacy—a core part of Apple’s ethos—the company has a clear plan. When Apple Intelligence communicates with ChatGPT, it obscures your IP address and prevents OpenAI from storing your requests. You can also link your own OpenAI account for subscription benefits, in which case OpenAI’s own data policy would apply.
GPT-5 had a bumpy start
It’s noteworthy that GPT-5 hasn’t had the best of starts. Following its rollout, the new AI model received a lot of user backlash. People reported that GPT-5 responded much more robotically than before. It’s as if the chatbot had lost the “personality” it had before. Furthermore, while the model outperforms its predecessors on multiple tasks, there are also some examples of GPT-5 giving inexplicably erroneous responses.
What made matters worse was the removal of the other GPT models from the list. OpenAI launched GPT-5 as an integrated model that would always automatically fall back to the best one. However, following the criticism, OpenAI announced the return of the GPT-5 model—at least for “Plus” subscribers. Hopefully, the company won’t take too long to fix the reported issues so that GPT-5 is what it should have been from its launch.
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