Use the settings panel to personalize the app and manage everyday preferences. Open Settings from the app menu or press
Cmd+, on macOS or Ctrl+, on Windows.
General
Require Cmd+Enter for multiline prompts, or turn on Prevent sleep while running so local tasks can continue while you step away. Under Follow-up behavior, choose whether a message sent while ChatGPT works should steer the current run or wait for the next run.
Profile
Use Profile to review activity insights, lifetime tokens, peak tokens, streaks, your longest task, and token activity. You can also update your profile details, such as your picture, display name, and username, and save a profile card with usage highlights. Sharing profile cards is available on consumer ChatGPT plans.
Eligible users can also send Codex invitations from the profile menu. Choose Invite a friend on an eligible personal plan or Invite a coworker in an eligible Business workspace. See Invite friends and coworkers for current rewards, limits, and eligibility.
Keyboard shortcuts
Open Keyboard Shortcuts to review commands, change bindings, or reset custom shortcuts to their defaults. Use the search field to find shortcuts by command name, or switch to keystroke search and press a key combination to find the command that uses it.
Notifications
Choose when turn completion notifications appear, and whether the app should prompt for notification permissions.
Appearance
In Settings, you can change the app appearance by choosing a base theme, adjusting accent, background, and foreground colors, and changing the UI and code fonts. You can also share your custom theme with friends.
Pets
Pets are optional animated companions for the app. In Settings > Pets,
choose a built-in or custom pet, then use /pet, Wake Pet, or
Tuck Away Pet to control the floating overlay.
See Pets to understand pet status, follow activity across tasks, or create your own pet.
Browser
Use these settings to install or enable the bundled Browser plugin, set up the Chrome extension, and manage allowed and blocked websites. ChatGPT asks before using a website unless you’ve allowed it. Removing a blocked site lets ChatGPT ask again before using it in the browser.
See Built-in browser for browser preview, comment, and Computer Use workflows.
Computer Use
Check your Computer Use settings to review desktop-app access and related preferences after setup. On macOS, revoke system-level access by updating Screen Recording or Accessibility permissions in macOS Privacy & Security settings.
Personalization
Choose Friendly, Pragmatic, or None as your default personality. Use None to disable personality instructions. You can update this at any time.
You can also add your own custom instructions. Editing custom instructions updates your
personal instructions in AGENTS.md.
Suggested prompts
Use context-aware suggestions to surface follow-ups and tasks you may want to resume when you start or return to ChatGPT.
Memories
Enable Memories, where available, to let ChatGPT carry useful context from past chats and tasks into future work. See Memories for setup, storage, and controls for individual chats and tasks.
Archived tasks
The Archived tasks section lists archived tasks with dates and project context. Use Unarchive to restore a task.
Keep a task near your work
In the ChatGPT desktop app, pop out an active task into a separate window and place it next to your browser, editor, or design preview. Turn on Always on top when you want the task to remain visible while you work in another app.
