My Top 5 AI Tips for iPhone Users!
About this video
Jeff Su shares five mobile habits for using AI with far less friction, which he frames as the workflows most users don’t know exist. Habit one, ‘drag to ask’: cross-app drag and drop has long existed on Android and iPhone — long-press an image or text snippet, use a second finger to swipe out, and drop it into another app. He demos dragging a screenshot of a dense graph into ChatGPT, which explains the image and transcribes its tiny text for copy-paste; dragging a contract PDF from the Files app into ChatGPT to ask about its terms while on a negotiation call; and long-pressing a fresh screenshot to drag it over with the instruction to recreate the table and download it as a CSV, skipping the expand-done-copy-delete-paste sequence. Habit two, instant content analysis, covers apps that don’t support drag and drop: put the AI app at the front of the system share sheet. On iPhone, open Share on any file, scroll right, tap More, then Edit, toggle the AI app on, add it to favorites, and drag it next to AirDrop; on Android, long-press the app in the share sheet to pin it. Three workflows follow. Websites: sharing from Safari or Chrome passes only the link, but ChatGPT and Gemini can read public pages, so follow up with ‘summarize this’ or ‘share the key takeaways’. Emails: in Gmail or Apple Mail you must go through Print first (in Apple Mail via Reply, then Print) to share the email as a PDF into a chat. LinkedIn blocks content sharing, so open the post in Chrome, take a full-page screenshot, and share that instead. On commutes he uses the speaker icon to listen to summaries aloud. He also passes on his mentor’s learning principle — discover widely (subscribe to one daily AI news roundup) and learn deeply (30 minutes a week on AI fundamentals). Habit three, the prompt snippet keyboard: save whole prompts as OS text replacements (phrase = the prompt, shortcut = the keyword) and prefix every shortcut with ZZ, placed for easy typing and impossible to trigger accidentally.
Key takeaways
- Drag content straight into the AI app: long-press an image, PDF, or screenshot and drop it into ChatGPT to ask questions or have a table recreated as a CSV.
- Pin your AI app to the front of the system share sheet (iPhone: Share > More > Edit favorites; Android: long-press to pin) so non-drag-and-drop apps still share in one tap.
- Work around share limits deliberately: public web links pass to ChatGPT and Gemini directly, emails go through the Print-to-PDF trick, and LinkedIn content needs a full-page screenshot taken in Chrome.
- Store prompts as text replacements with a never-accidental prefix (his ZZ): ZZANAL for takeaways-plus-summary, ZZIMG for image description and text extraction, ZZLATE for language detection and translation.
- Give the Action Button a voice job — start a ChatGPT dictation chat on one press — and recover Do Not Disturb through a Back Tap double-tap shortcut.
Episode details: published September 9, 2025 · 13:09 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are Jeff Su’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.
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