Unit Conversion to Feet and Inches

If you click the (🔍search) window at the bottom of the iOS screen and enter just this:

1.7m

it will automatically show 5 feet 6.93 inches — as it did on my U.S. iPhone 15 Pro Max with iOS 17.3.1.

I just asked ChatGPT using speech to text in its app:

I’m trying a new one, Perplexity, which seems to be significantly better than ChatGPT and was recommended by a NY Times tech reporter. But for my uses either works well.

I just tried the same test with Wolfram Alpha, and got even a better result (I said “Convert 5 meters to feet and inches”, which it then shortened to what you see). Both ChatGPT and Wolfram Alpha are free apps.

You can also ask Siri:

801mihaf wrote:

No app as such. I was using the basic search function on iPhone which works well for Unit Conversion but somehow doesn’t respond in feet+inch format. It only shows results in decimal format.

Just one more reason to use the metric system..... ;-)

It would help if you told us what app(s) you're using.

And I finally found a use for LLM AI😏

ChatGPT is wonderful when used wisely!

Apologies for the previous version of my post. I didn't read yours carefully enough (at all) and thought you were converting the number the OP had used. So, ChatGPT not wrong, just a silly person.

I'm learning so many neat things!