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Browse through your ChatGPT chat history on a computer or mobile device
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Do you need to find information from an old ChatGPT conversation? If you have the ChatGPT mobile app, you can use the built-in search feature to search your chat history. Since search isn't available on desktop, you'll need to use third-party extensions. Here's how to search ChatGPT conversations on the web, iPhone, iPad, and Android.
Easy Ways to Search Your ChatGPT History
The ChatGPT mobile app for Android and iOS has a built-in conversation search function in the menu. Enter your search into the search bar. On a computer, install the Echoes extension for Chrome to add a ChatGPT search icon to your browser toolbar. Use the Searchable ChatGPT extension for Chrome to add a Search chat history link to the ChatGPT sidebar.
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Open the ChatGPT mobile app. The official ChatGPT app has a built-in search feature. It's available for iOS in the App Store and for Android in the Google Play Store . [1] X Research source
- If you aren't already logged in, enter your account information to do so now.
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Tap the two horizontal lines icon. This is at the top of the screen.Advertisement
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Select a chat. You'll see a list of recent chats in the left panel.
- If you want to search for an older chat, skip this step.
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Enter your search into the search field. ChatGPT will begin searching your past conversations for the provided words.
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Download the Echoes extension on Google Chrome. Echoes - ChatGPT Conversation History Search is available only for the Google Chrome browser. To add an extension , do the following:
- Visit the Echoes download page .
- Click Add to Chrome at the top.
- Click Add extension to confirm.
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Go to https://chat.openai.com . If you aren't logged in, enter your account information to do so now.
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Click the Echoes extension icon. This will be in the top-right corner. If it isn't visible, click the puzzle piece icon to toggle it on.
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Enter a keyword in the search bar. Matching results from your ChatGPT conversations will load as you type, along with an at-a-glance summary of each result.
- Click a search result to open it in a pop-up window.
- Use the left and right arrows to navigate between newer and older searches.
- If you want to favorite a search, click the heart icon.
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Download the Searchable ChatGPT Extension on Google Chrome. Searchable ChatGPT is available only for the Google Chrome browser. To add it as an extension, do the following:
- Visit the Searchable ChatGPT download page .
- Click Add to Chrome at the top.
- Click Add extension to confirm.
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Go to https://chat.openai.com/ . If you aren't already logged in to ChatGPT , enter your account information to do so now.
- If you have a lot of data, it may take a moment to fully sync with the extension. You can see its progress in the sidebar.
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Click Search chat history . Now that you've added the extension, you'll find this in the left sidebar.
- You can also open the ChatGPT search tool with the keyboard shortcut: CTRL / CMD + Shift + P .
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Enter your search into the field. Suggestions from your ChatGPT conversations will appear as you type. Click one to load its results. Or, to search for the entered words exactly, click the box for Exact match .
- You'll see conversations with the included search words from newest to oldest.
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Download the GPT Search extension on Google Chrome. GPT Search is also available for Edge and Firefox. To add an extension , do the following:
- Visit the download page .
- Click Add to Chrome at the top.
- Click Add extension to confirm.
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Go to https://chat.openai.com . If you aren't logged in, enter your account information to do so now.
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Enter a keyword in the search bar. Matching results from your ChatGPT conversations will load as you type, along with an at-a-glance summary of each result.
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Download the GPT Search extension on Microsoft Edge. GPT Search is also available for Chrome and Firefox. To add an extension , do the following:
- Visit the download page .
- Click Get at the top.
- Click Add extension to confirm.
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Go to https://chat.openai.com . If you aren't logged in, enter your account information to do so now.
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Enter a keyword in the search bar. Matching results from your ChatGPT conversations will load as you type, along with an at-a-glance summary of each result.
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Download the GPT Search extension on Mozilla Firefox. GPT Search is also available for Chrome and Edge. To add an extension , do the following:
- Visit the download page .
- Click Add to Firefox .
- Click Add to confirm.
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Go to https://chat.openai.com . If you aren't logged in, enter your account information to do so now.
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While on https://chat.openai.com , enable Always allow on chat.openai.com :
- After enabling the permission, reload your ChatGPT tab.
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Enter a keyword in the search bar. Matching results from your ChatGPT conversations will load as you type, along with an at-a-glance summary of each result.
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- As long as you use the same ChatGPT account on your computer and in the mobile app, the same conversations will show up in both places. So, you can use the mobile app to search for chats you had with the bot on your computer.
- ChatGPT Keeper is another Chrome extension that can search past conversations in ChatGPT. It can also search by bookmarks, images, date range, and category.
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