OpenAI just gave ChatGPT users the ability to search across every conversation, project, image, and document they’ve ever created on the platform. The new sidebar search feature, which rolled out globally on July 14, works across web, iOS, and Android. It’s available to all plan tiers.
What OpenAI actually shipped
The update lets users run unified queries across their entire ChatGPT history. Users can filter results by content type, meaning you can narrow down to just images, just projects, or just conversations. Results link directly to the relevant content rather than dumping you into a vague list.
This builds on the web search tool OpenAI first introduced on October 31, 2024, which let ChatGPT pull real-time information from the internet. That capability reached all logged-in users by December 16, 2024, and became universally available on February 5, 2025.
Just one day earlier, on July 13, OpenAI brought ChatGPT back to WhatsApp across the European Economic Area. That integration includes web search, image generation, voice capabilities, and multilingual support.
