ChatGPT iOS App Adds Codex Task Management Inside Conversations
CodexOpenAI updated the ChatGPT iOS app (version 1.2026.181) to let users create, search, open, fork, and manage Codex tasks directly from within a chat conversation, closing the gap between everyday ChatGPT use and Codex's coding workflows. The release also adds diff filters, transcript-to-composer support, richer attachment handling, and SSH host connection shortcuts, rounding out the mobile Codex experience introduced earlier in 2026. Together these changes make it possible to start, steer, and review Codex work without ever leaving an ongoing ChatGPT thread.
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Codex Tasks, Now Native to ChatGPT Conversations
The July 6 update to ChatGPT for iOS (1.2026.181) introduces the ability to create, search, open, fork, and manage Codex tasks directly from a conversation. Rather than switching into a separate Codex surface, users can spin up a coding task, branch it into a new variant, or pull up an existing task's status from wherever they already are in ChatGPT. This continues OpenAI's push, first signaled in early June, to fold more Codex functionality into the core ChatGPT app rather than keeping it siloed.
Reviewing and Comparing Changes
The update adds filters for staged, unstaged, branch, and last-turn changes, along with controls for comparing branches — bringing a more git-native review experience to the mobile app. Users reviewing a Codex task's output can now narrow down exactly which changes they're looking at instead of scrolling through an undifferentiated diff.
Composer and Attachment Improvements
ChatGPT iOS now supports pulling selected transcript text directly into the composer, useful for referencing earlier output when steering a task. The app also adds previews for image and file attachments before sending, along with inline Photos and Camera pickers in the attachment menu, smoothing out a previously clunky part of the mobile workflow.
Remote Work via SSH
A new connection shortcut adds support for SSH hosts using private keys or no credentials, extending the app's reach beyond the existing Mac/Windows remote-control pairing (which reached general availability across all ChatGPT plans in late June). Usage limits and credit details are now also visible directly in the task menu, giving users better visibility into consumption without leaving the task view.
Smaller Fixes
The release rounds out with a set of quality-of-life improvements: clearer task terminology and delegated task titles, a new "Needs input" status, faster initial task loading, autocomplete that auto-selects the first result, model/reasoning settings that stay scoped to the current task, and fixes for stuck thread lists, stale images, and microphone permission alerts.