ChatGPT can now surface information from a user’s entire chat history more reliably, addressing one of the platform’s long-standing usability issues, following a new system update rolled out to Plus and Pro subscribers.
With the update, subscribers can ask questions that reference any past conversation, including chats dating back to when their account was first created. While ChatGPT has always stored user chat history and offered a basic search function, the feature has often proved inconsistent in practice, particularly for users with dozens or hundreds of similar threads accumulated over months or years.
The update, internally referred to as PersonalContextAgentTool, improves how the platform retrieves and applies information from earlier conversations. Rather than…