I found a hidden ChatGPT setting that changes how hard the AI thinks — and the difference surprised me
Today, I was using the ChatGPT app on my iPhone when I accidentally held my finger down on the send button (the blue upward arrow) a bit too long, and I was suddenly taken to a new options screen I hadn’t realized existed before, which I use all the time now.
The option screen gives you three different intelligence settings for the answer you're going to get back from ChatGPT: High, Medium, or Instant.
What’s going on here is that ChatGPT is asking you to choose between three different flavors of ChatGPT-5.5 that change how long the chatbot thinks before answering. These options are easily visible in the web-interface version of ChatGPT, but the reason why I’d never seen them before in the iOS app is that there’s nothing that indicates they exist, and I bet a lot of you haven’t found them either.
So, fire up ChatGPT and try...
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