What's changing
On 7 October 2026, OpenAI said it was launching GPT-6 to everyone in ChatGPT, across free and paid plans globally. That includes the 10.5 million Australians, or 45% of those aged 14 and over, who used ChatGPT in an average four weeks in the March quarter of 2026, according to Roy Morgan.
OpenAI's announcement doesn't say what happens to chats you started before. So we won't guess.
Why a clean start makes sense
The model works with the context available for each reply. A chat that's weeks old carries every draft, every dead end and every correction. Starting fresh with a short brief lets you see what the new model does with your project, without all of that in the way.
Move a long chat in four steps
- Write the goal in one line.
- List what's decided, so it isn't reopened.
- Add the rules you kept repeating: tone, format, what to leave out.
- Paste the latest version of the work, and ask it to continue.
The faster way: Handoff, in Uncook
Uncook's Handoff writes that brief for you. On the ChatGPT page, click the Uncook icon and pick Handoff. You get a prompt with your goal, what's decided, the rules you set and where you stopped.
Read it, change what you want, then copy it into a new chat.
Questions people ask
Do I have to start a new chat to use GPT-6? OpenAI's announcement doesn't say. Starting fresh is a choice, not a requirement we know of.
Will my old chat be deleted? Nothing in the announcement says your old chats will be deleted. Check your account's history settings for how chats are kept.
Can I move the chat to another AI instead? Yes. A handoff is plain text, so you can paste it into Claude, Gemini or another AI.
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.