ChatGPT app UI update is set to make OpenAI's mobile assistant a little easier to live with every day.
An APK teardown of ChatGPT app version 1.2026.090 suggests OpenAI is working on a custom share sheet, a redesigned file picker and richer tools for handling images.
The ChatGPT app UI update replaces the current one-step system share panel with an in-app sheet that appears as soon as users tap the share icon under a response. Hard-coded shortcuts line the top row, covering popular apps such as Google and Samsung Messages, Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo Mail, Signal, Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp and Telegram for one-tap sharing.
Below that, the familiar Copy link and Share buttons remain, with the latter handing off to Android's system share sheet for any app not on the ChatGPT app UI update shortlist. It is a small change on paper, but one that trims friction for people who routinely pass AI-generated text or links into messaging threads or email.
The teardown also points to an Uploaded files section that gathers documents and images used in a conversation under a new Files in this chat screen. Early internal builds reportedly showed around 30 recent items, along with an Upload files button that opens the standard Android picker, hinting at closer alignment with the Files Library experience OpenAI has begun rolling out on desktop and web.
Photo attachments are getting attention too, with the ChatGPT app UI update exposing options labelled Clean up image, Remove the background and Draw and annotate when a picture is added to the input field. Annotation already works in the current mobile editor, while background removal and image cleanup appear as prompts that ChatGPT Images can act on, building on OpenAI's recent push into more precise image editing and object removal.
For now, these changes live only in app resources uncovered by Android Authority and are not switched on for regular users of the ChatGPT app. OpenAI has not announced a release window, and features seen in teardowns do sometimes change or disappear before shipping. Even so, the ChatGPT app UI update sketched out here fits a broader pattern: OpenAI is steadily turning its mobile client into a more complete workspace, where sharing, file management and quick image edits feel less like add-ons and more like part of the core tool.