Feature Request: Option to Copy Text as RTF in ChatGPT iPad App

ChatGPT Feature requests
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I am a frequent user of the ChatGPT iPad app, and I greatly appreciate the functionality and convenience it provides. However, I have encountered a challenge when copying text from the app to other applications, such as Microsoft Teams on the iPad.

Currently, when I copy text from the ChatGPT app, it is copied in Markdown format. This causes formatting issues, particularly with bold text and bullet points, which are converted to asterisks and hyphens, respectively, when pasted into Teams. It is quite time-consuming to manually reformat the text in Teams to restore the original formatting.

To improve the user experience, I would like to suggest an enhancement: providing an option to copy text as Rich Text Format (RTF) instead of Markdown. This feature would allow users to preserve text formatting when copying and pasting between different applications, saving time and effort.

I believe this enhancement would be beneficial to many users who rely on ChatGPT for their daily tasks and communications. Thank you for considering my suggestion. I look forward to any future updates that might address this issue.

Cheers,
Roman

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I agree with this. The current Copy function in ChatGPT output changes Bold font lines of text into ugly **** Text **** in the clipboard, and after copying the clipboard contents into another file, I have to manually change back the lines back into Bold font. Makes using chatGPT output cumbersome.

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I completely agree with this issue. I have not tried using Safari and ChatGPT to see if it’s the same issue and only a result of using the app. Have you?

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I did test on Safari browser on my iPad Pro and while the copy feature created the same issue I highlighted and selected the text, The front characteristics carried over when I pasted.

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Actually - the latest version of chatgtp for ipad seems to completely remove the markdown format and keep a totally unformatted text.

If we can’t have RTF directly, I would prefer the markdown version, as I use a shortcut that directly converts “MD to Rich Text Format” and does what I believe we all want…

Now I need to use the browser to copy to clipboard and then run the shortcut