--- title: ChatGPT for iPhone now grabs your recent photos with a... description: ChatGPT for iPhone now lets users long press the plus button to instantly surface their four most recently taken photos for attaching to a chat, shipped in... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-for-iphone-now-grabs-your-recent-photos-with-a-long-press-u5qxtyswd twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ChatGPT for iPhone now grabs your recent photos with a long press | daily.dev og:description: ChatGPT for iPhone now lets users long press the plus button to instantly surface their four most recently taken photos for attaching to a chat, shipped in... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-for-iphone-now-grabs-your-recent-photos-with-a-long-press-u5qxtyswd og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/U5QXtYswD.png og:image:alt: ChatGPT for iPhone now grabs your recent photos with a long press og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ChatGPT for iPhone now grabs your recent photos with a long press **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary ChatGPT for iPhone now lets users long press the plus button to instantly surface their four most recently taken photos for attaching to a chat, shipped in OpenAI's 21 August weekly update alongside better time handling and faster loading for long web conversations. The feature quietly fills a gap left by Apple, whose Siri Camera mode and expanded Visual Intelligence remain unavailable on iPhone and iPad in the EU due to an unresolved Digital Markets Act dispute over interoperability requirements, leaving roughly 450 million Europeans without a native visual assistant. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I quickly attach a recent photo in ChatGPT on iPhone? Long press the plus button beside the prompt box in ChatGPT for iPhone to instantly surface your four most recently taken photos, ready to attach. This replaces the older path of opening the plus menu, choosing Photos, and searching through a large camera roll. OpenAI shipped it in its 21 August weekly update, calling it a power-user feature. _Developers tracking ChatGPT's iPhone feature drops can follow release notes like this on daily.dev._ ### Why doesn't Apple's Siri Camera assistant work on iPhone in the EU? Apple has no timeline for bringing Siri AI camera and Visual Intelligence features to iPhone or iPad in the EU, despite launching them on Mac and Vision Pro. The holdup stems from a Digital Markets Act dispute: Apple says the European Commission's interoperability rules would force it to give rival assistants the same system access as Siri, and regulators rejected both Apple's Trusted System Agent proposal and its requested 18-month phased rollout, leaving about 450 million EU iPhone owners without a native visual assistant. _Anyone weighing EU platform regulation against product rollouts can follow DMA developments on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [ChatGPT is Apple’s most downloaded app of 2025 in the US](https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-is-apple-s-most-downloaded-app-of-2025-in-the-us-sdegz3scf) · TechCrunch · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [CarPlay’s ChatGPT integration is way more useful than I expected](https://daily.dev/posts/carplay-s-chatgpt-integration-is-way-more-useful-than-i-expected-jjypsslv5) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#apple](https://daily.dev/tags/apple), [#ios](https://daily.dev/tags/ios), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-for-iphone-now-grabs-your-recent-photos-with-a-long-press-u5qxtyswd) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"ChatGPT for iPhone now grabs your recent photos with a long press","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-for-iphone-now-grabs-your-recent-photos-with-a-long-press-u5qxtyswd","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-for-iphone-now-grabs-your-recent-photos-with-a-long-press-u5qxtyswd"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:01:16.967Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:02:19.023Z","description":"ChatGPT for iPhone now lets users long press the plus button to instantly surface their four most recently taken photos for attaching to a chat, shipped in...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/e6fb41404012b8899e2960bc967f0c58?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/e6fb41404012b8899e2960bc967f0c58?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"The Next Web","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"The Next Web","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/tnw","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-for-iphone-now-grabs-your-recent-photos-with-a-long-press-u5qxtyswd","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"apple,ios,openai,chatgpt","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Next Web","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/tnw"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"ChatGPT for iPhone now grabs your recent photos with a long press"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"FAQPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-for-iphone-now-grabs-your-recent-photos-with-a-long-press-u5qxtyswd#faq","mainEntity":[{"@type":"Question","name":"How do I quickly attach a recent photo in ChatGPT on iPhone?","acceptedAnswer":{"@type":"Answer","text":"Long press the plus button beside the prompt box in ChatGPT for iPhone to instantly surface your four most recently taken photos, ready to attach. 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