ChatGPT on smart glasses, watches and earbuds: where it works and where it doesn't

Where ChatGPT works on wearables depends on the device. On an iPhone, Apple's Siri can pass questions to it. Rokid offers it on its AI glasses. On Meta's glasses, the Apple Watch and AirPods, the built-in assistants are Meta AI and Siri, and the company pages we read don't list ChatGPT. OpenAI is building its own device, and it told a court that the first one won't ship before the end of February 2027.

This guide is based on Apple's iPhone User Guide, OpenAI's help center, the glasses makers' pages as collected in our product guides and press reports on OpenAI's hardware. We haven't tested any of these combinations, and each section says what the companies don't document.

ChatGPT in Siri on iPhone

Apple's own integration is the route with official documentation. In its iPhone User Guide, Apple says that with Apple Intelligence you "get more in-depth answers from Siri and compose text in Writing Tools when you enable the ChatGPT extension." The guide also covers using Visual Intelligence to ask ChatGPT for information. To turn it on, open Settings, tap Siri, tap ChatGPT and tap Set Up. Signing in to a ChatGPT account is optional, and it's the only way to have your requests saved to your ChatGPT chat history.

Apple's page lists the requirements: iOS 27 or later on an iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max or an iPhone 16 model or later, in a region where ChatGPT is available, and an age of at least 13 or your country's minimum. Usage limits may apply.

Apple says you control when ChatGPT is used and are asked before any of your information is shared, unless you turn off Confirm Requests so that Siri sends requests automatically. Your request, any attachments and limited data such as your time zone, country, device type and language go to ChatGPT. Your IP address is obscured, but your general location is shared, Apple says. If you use the extension without an account, Apple says OpenAI gets nothing tied to your Apple Account, must process your data only to fulfill the request, must not store the request or response unless the law requires it and must not use it to train its models. If you sign in, your ChatGPT account settings and OpenAI's data privacy policies apply instead.

Does it reach Apple Watch or AirPods?

Apple documents the extension in the iPhone guide. The Apple pages we used for our Apple Watch guide, our AirPods Pro 3 guide and our assistant comparison don't mention ChatGPT. They cover Siri AI, which Apple released on Sept. 14, 2026, as the assistant on the watch and on AirPods. A voice request on your wrist or through AirPods is a Siri request, and Apple doesn't say it can be handed to ChatGPT there.

ChatGPT apps for watches

OpenAI's help articles list ChatGPT apps for iOS and Android, the web and a desktop app for macOS and Windows. Its ChatGPT Voice article names the same places. None of the OpenAI pages we read lists an Apple Watch or Wear OS app. On Wear OS the assistant is Gemini, and on Apple Watch it is Siri. If you find a watch app that offers ChatGPT, check who publishes it, because OpenAI's pages don't list one.

Glasses that offer ChatGPT

A few makers outside Meta and Google let you choose ChatGPT or say they support it. The table shows what each company or retailer says.

Rokid is the clearest case. Our Rokid guide has its lineup and specifications, and our guides to Even Realities and Brilliant Labs cover the other two. Google's Android XR glasses, due this fall, use Gemini, as our Gemini on Android XR guide explains.

Using ChatGPT's voice mode through Bluetooth glasses or earbuds

OpenAI describes ChatGPT Voice as a feature of the ChatGPT apps on iOS and Android, the web and the desktop app, and it asks for microphone access. We found no mention of glasses, earbuds or other Bluetooth devices in it. Its newest option, Live, is powered by GPT-Live-1.1 and can listen and speak at the same time. Live doesn't support video or screen sharing, which stay in the Advanced option on iOS and Android. OpenAI limits Live by plan: on Plus it's three hours over a rolling 24 hours.

Meta says its glasses connect to your phone over Bluetooth, and Be My Eyes' FAQ for the glasses says that once paired, "your glasses will act as the audio output device instead of your phone." Our music and podcasts guide covers listening through the glasses. In the pages we read, Meta and OpenAI don't say how ChatGPT Voice behaves over that connection, including whether it uses the glasses' microphones, so treat it as undocumented. The same goes for AirPods, where Apple's pages cover Siri and not the ChatGPT app. The video-sharing section of OpenAI's article doesn't mention a glasses camera as a source.

For developers, Meta's Wearables Device Access Toolkit reached version 1.0 at Connect, letting phone apps use the glasses' camera, voice commands through "Hey Meta" and head motion, Meta's developer recap says. That is the documented way for a third party to build an app for the glasses, ChatGPT-powered or not. OpenAI hasn't announced one in anything we read.

Why Meta's glasses use Meta AI

Meta AI is Meta's own assistant, and the glasses are built around it. You set up and manage them in the Meta AI app and wake the assistant with "Hey Meta." Meta has been rolling out its Muse Spark model behind Meta AI on glasses in the US and Canada since April, and it says its Muse agent comes to the glasses "in the coming months." Our Meta AI guide covers the features, and our Muse guide covers the agent.

Meta hasn't said, in the pages we read, why it doesn't offer ChatGPT. What the pages show is a company building its own assistant and agent while OpenAI builds its own. MacRumors described OpenAI's Dots agents, launched Sept. 29, as a rival to Meta's Muse.

OpenAI's own hardware

OpenAI announced in May 2025 that it was acquiring io, Jony Ive's hardware startup, which Fortune says it bought for $6.5 billion. The io team is now OpenAI's hardware group, with more than 400 employees. What has been reported since comes from court filings and the press.

On Feb. 10, 2026, a filing in a trademark lawsuit from the audio startup iyO said OpenAI's first device won't ship before the end of February 2027, MacRumors reported, citing Wired. OpenAI's original goal had been to ship before the end of 2026. The filing also said it hasn't made packaging or marketing materials and won't use the name "io" for its hardware.

By July 22, Fortune wrote, the device was expected to ship as early as 2027, a source said the design of the first device was finalized, and a lawsuit from Apple accusing OpenAI of trade secret theft had "thrown those plans into chaos."

OpenAI hasn't shown the device, and the reports differ on what it is. MacRumors said earlier filings in the iyO case indicate it apparently won't be an in-ear device or a wearable. Fortune cited a Bloomberg report of a home-speaker-like companion with moving mechanical parts. OpenAI hasn't announced a name, price or date in anything we read. If those reports are right, OpenAI's first device wouldn't be glasses or earbuds, and ChatGPT would keep reaching wearables through other companies' products.

Which route fits you

• On an iPhone, the ChatGPT extension under Settings, Siri is the route Apple documents.
• For ChatGPT on glasses, Rokid is the documented choice, at $699 with a display or $399 without.
• With Ray-Ban Meta or Oakley Meta glasses, Meta AI is the assistant, and ChatGPT Voice on them isn't documented.
• On your wrist or in your ears, Siri and Gemini are the documented assistants, as our comparison shows.