Can you transfer a chat between Copilot and ChatGPT?
Not the chat itself. Microsoft Copilot (copilot.microsoft.com) and ChatGPT are separate products, with separate accounts and histories. What you can carry is what the chat holds: the goal, what's decided, the rules, and where you stopped. That fits in a short first message for the other AI.
Why pasting the whole chat rarely works
A long chat is dozens of turns: drafts, corrections, ideas you dropped. Pasted raw into the other AI, nothing tells it what still counts, and it may build on something you'd already abandoned. Give it the conclusions, not the transcript.
Move it by hand
- The goal, in one or two sentences.
- What's decided, the choices you don't want reopened.
- The rules: tone, format, length, what to avoid.
- Where you are, and the next step.
- Send it first in a new chat in the other AI.
You're continuing work I started with another AI. Here's what you need to pick it up. GOAL: [what we're making or deciding] DECIDED (don't reopen): - [decision 1] - [decision 2] RULES: - [rule 1] - [rule 2] WHERE WE ARE: [current state] NEXT: [the next step] Confirm you've understood, then help me with the next step.
What doesn't come along.
Files you uploaded, images, and what one AI remembers about you stay behind. Add them again in the new chat if you need them.
The faster way: Handoff, in Uncook
Uncook's Handoff writes that opening message for you, addressed to the AI you're moving to. Open the chat in Copilot, click the Uncook icon, pick Handoff, turn on Switch to another AI and choose ChatGPT, or Gemini, or Claude. You get the decisions, the reasons you gave and the questions still open. Copy it into the other AI, or click Continue in the AI you chose to open a new chat there, with the prompt in it on sites where you've allowed Uncook, or copied for you to paste.
It works the other way too: open a ChatGPT chat, pick Handoff, turn on Switch to another AI and choose Copilot.
Questions people ask
My Copilot chat reached its limit. Is this the same thing? Close. If you want to stay in Copilot, start a new Copilot chat with a handoff: what to do when Copilot says the conversation reached its limit.
Will ChatGPT answer the way Copilot did? Not exactly. Each AI has its own style. Put the tone and format you want in the rules.
Does it work on my phone? The Uncook extension runs in Chrome on a computer. On a phone, write the message by hand with the template above.
Start fresh,
without starting over.
Add to Chrome
We don't keep the conversations you bring. When you click Send to Uncook in the extension window, the extension sends the chat from your tab to our servers, encrypted, for up to 30 minutes, and we delete it as soon as your Uncook page opens it. What Uncook makes from it is kept as a task, for as long as our Privacy page says. Neither your chats nor your tasks are used to train AI models.