With the second beta version of iOS 18.2 available to developers since last night, Apple has refined the integration of ChatGPT in Siri. In the Settings app, there is now a section that displays the ChatGPT daily limit and provides an option to upgrade to the paid ChatGPT Plus subscription.
ChatGPT is limited on iOS
Contrary to what Apple announced last June, using ChatGPT via Siri is not completely free. Beyond a certain limit, you will have to upgrade to the “Plus” subscription. It is this information that we find since the beta 2 version of iOS 18.2. In the ChatGPT plugin settings, an “Advanced Capabilities” section includes a “Daily Limit” field that displays as “Under Limit” without a paid ChatGPT plan. Users have access to a small number of queries that use ChatGPT’s more advanced capabilities, and queries are downgraded to a basic version of ChatGPT after that.
OpenAI has long limited access to ChatGPT’s most advanced feature set to a paid Plus plan. But recently, even free accounts have the right to around ten interactions with the GPT-o engine, which is found here in access to ChatGPT via Siri.
The “Plus” upgrade
There is an option to upgrade to ChatGPT Plus, priced at €22.99 per month in France. ChatGPT Plus provides 5x more messages on the latest version of ChatGPT, GPT-4o. It also allows higher limits for photo and file uploads, image generation via DALL-E and web browsing, as well as an option to chat with ChatGPT using advanced voice mode.
Of course, if you already have an active ChatGPT Plus subscription you can log in to your account. Others can subscribe directly through the Settings app (which opens an in-app browser where users can subscribe directly with OpenAI).
If you don’t want to pay, free access to ChatGPT-4o resets every 24 hours, and when the limited number of requests is exhausted, Siri switches to a more economical version of ChatGPT (GPT-3). Imaging with DALL-E 3 is capped at two images per day.
