Last week, OpenAI announced a new feature for ChatGPT named location sharing. This allows you to share your precise location with ChatGPT, so ChatGPT can give you more localized and near me results.
OpenAI wrote:
Users can now choose to share their device location so ChatGPT can provide more relevant information, such as local recommendations, news, and weather. Sharing your device location is completely optional and off until you choose to enable it. You can update device location sharing in Settings > Data Controls at any time.
As Glenn Gabe put it on X, "Let's call this the "Near Me ChatGPT Update."
By enabling location sharing, it will allow ChatGPT more precisely reply to queries like “what are the best coffee shops near me?”, "ChatGPT can use your precise location to provide more relevant nearby results. On mobile devices, you can choose to toggle off precise location separately while keeping approximate device location sharing on for additional control."
This is rolling out to all ChatGPT consumers plans on iOS and web today with Android is coming soon.
I shared about the "Near Me ChatGPT Update" the other day and just let ChatGPT use my device location. This is supposed to enhance results for local queries. I just asked for the "best steakhouses near me" and several of the restaurants are ~45 minutes away. Both restaurants… pic.twitter.com/gRkMeuzMQt
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) March 30, 2026
Forum discussion at X.
