ChatGPT Can Be Used as Default Safari Search Engine With New Extension

[MacRumors]

OpenAI today updated the ChatGPT app to add a new Safari Extension that allows ChatGPT to be used as the default search engine for searches made through the Safari search bar.

After updating to the latest version of the ChatGPT app, the ChatGPT Search Extension can be enabled in the Safari section of the Settings app. Turning it on directs all queries typed in to the Safari search bar to ChatGPT Search instead of Google or whatever your default search engine is set to.

Turning on this extension will direct queries you type into the Safari search bar to ChatGPT Search, making ChatGPT Search your default search engine in Safari. The same policies that govern your use of ChatGPT apply.

The extension needs permission to access Google.com or the site for your default search engine, but when granted, any search you type in is redirected to ChatGPT's search feature rather than going through the default in your Safari settings.

You can now use ChatGPT search as your default search engine in Safari on iOS by updating to the latest version of ChatGPT and enabling the Safari extension! pic.twitter.com/yvyINPN9yv

— Aaron (@aaronp613) February 25, 2025

There is no option to set ChatGPT as a preferred search engine, but the extension serves as a workaround.

Article Link: ChatGPT Can Be Used as Default Safari Search Engine With New Extension

 

[xxFoxtail]

Can’t seem to get it to work.

Edit: Tried it on both my iPad and iPhone. Doesn’t work for me. Is it because DuckDuckGo is my regular search engine?

 

[infinitedreams]

OpenAI: We launched a Safari extension to set ChatGPT as your default search engine!

Also OpenAI: Just some minor tweaks and bug fixes, nothing noteworthy. Have a nice day

 

[jz0309]

No Thank You!
Well, if you give me $500 - nah, no thank you

 

[iPhoneFan5349]

No Thank You!
Well, if you give me $500 - nah, no thank you

Why?

 

[Chiromac81]

This seems like a privacy boondoggle wearing to happen

 

[bmark]

Doesn’t this defeat the purpose of having AI on the device?

 

[Jmausmuc]

Why would anyone want this?

What is the benefit to using safari instead of the ChatGPT app?

 

[Astuces iOS]

If I want to use chatgpt search I open the chatgpt app, if I want google I use safari... so this is USELESS BOOM

 

[jz0309]

Why?

Cause I don’t want anything to do with “artificial intelligence” and even less with that company.

 

[klasma]

Doesn’t this defeat the purpose of having AI on the device?

It would if the AI on the device were any good.

 

[Astuces iOS]

Cause I don’t want anything to do with “artificial intelligence” and even less with that company.

Are you scared by AI?

 

[jz0309]

Are you scared by AI?

It adds zero value to my life.

 

[Astuces iOS]

It adds zero value to my life.

Well if you want to edit photos, AI can help... making videos, AI can help, searching something you can't find , AI can help, priority notifications could be useful....

 

[jz0309]

Are you scared by AI?

Why is it that when someone doesn’t want “AI” one has to be scared of it?
If I don’t use Siri, does that imply I’m scared of Siri?
If I don’t use the staffed with humans checkout lane in the grocery store - does that mean I’m scared of humans?

 

[Astuces iOS]

Why is it that when someone doesn’t want “AI” one has to be scared of it?
If I don’t use Siri, does that imply I’m scared of Siri?
If I don’t use the staffed with humans checkout lane in the grocery store - does that mean I’m scared of humans?

No I just ask because I know people scared by AI.

 

[jz0309]

Well if you want to edit photos, AI can help... making videos, AI can help, searching something you can't find , AI can help, priority notifications could be useful....

I’ve edited photos way before there was “AI”, same with videos. I don’t need prioritized notifications.
I find everything I look for via google search.
I don’t need “AI” to write for me

Keep going

 

[klasma]

Why would anyone want this?

What is the benefit to using safari instead of the ChatGPT app?

The extension is for ChatGPT Search, which is a bit different from regular ChatGPT:

 

[Astuces iOS]

I’ve edited photos way before there was “AI”, same with videos. I don’t need prioritized notifications.
I find everything I look for via google search.
I don’t need “AI” to write for me

Keep going

AI for games

AI for coding

AI do create images (could be logos)

 

[Astuces iOS]

The extension is for ChatGPT Search, which is a bit different from regular ChatGPT:

You can use chatgpt app for this... extension useless

 

[klasma]

You can use chatgpt app for this... extension useless

When you use this often while browsing, it saves you from having to switch apps.

 

[Aaronp613]

OpenAI: We launched a Safari extension to set ChatGPT as your default search engine!

Also OpenAI: Just some minor tweaks and bug fixes, nothing noteworthy. Have a nice day

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We only found the feature by looking through the app's code lol

 

[Astuces iOS]

When you use this often while browsing, it saves you from having to switch apps.

Switch between apps takes me 0.5 seconds... + How I use google now?

 

[klasma]

Switch between apps takes me 0.5 seconds... + How I use google now?

You bookmark it. Takes only 0.5 seconds to select the bookmark… or switch to the Google app.

 

[Astuces iOS]

You bookmark it. Takes only 0.5 seconds to select the bookmark…

I hate chatgpt website... I prefer the GPT app which has extra features like vibration !