OpenAI added an Apple Messages plugin to the ChatGPT desktop app. It can search your texts, catch you up on a group chat and draft a reply. It sends a text only after you approve it. Here's the setup on a Mac, and the access you're agreeing to.
You need a Mac with Apple silicon and the ChatGPT desktop app. OpenAI lists the plugin on all plans. It works in Work chats and in Codex, and it doesn't work in regular chats.
Find the restaurant address someone texted me last week. Tell me who sent it and when. Summarize the family group chat from the last 7 days. What did we decide, and is there anything I need to do?
When ChatGPT drafts a text, it shows you the message and who it's going to. Choose Allow once to send that one text. Skip Always allow sending to this chat: it lets ChatGPT text that chat as you with no final check. If the approval never appears, your chat may be set to Full access. Switch it to Ask for approval and try again.
Yes, on a Mac, through the Apple Messages plugin in the ChatGPT desktop app. It can search your iMessage, SMS and RCS texts, catch you up on a group chat and draft a reply. It works in Work chats and in Codex, and it doesn't work in regular chats, on the web or on your phone.
Yes, and it asks before it sends. ChatGPT shows you the draft and who it's going to, and you choose Allow once to send that one text. Skip Always allow sending to this chat, because it lets ChatGPT text that chat as you with no final check.
Install the Apple Messages plugin in the ChatGPT desktop app on a Mac with Apple silicon. Select Customize, then Plugins, in the left sidebar, find Apple Messages and select the plus button. Start a new chat, switch the toggle above the message box to Work, then type @ and choose Apple Messages.
It gives ChatGPT a lot of access, so use it only on a personal Mac that only you use. ChatGPT asks for Full Disk Access, which Apple says lets an app read data from Mail, Messages, Safari and Home, plus Time Machine backups. Choose Allow once for every send, and switch the permissions off in System Settings when you're done.
No, the plugin runs in the ChatGPT desktop app on a Mac. It isn't in ChatGPT on the web or on your phone, and you can't text ChatGPT through it. Your iPhone texts reach the Mac through Text Message Forwarding, and Messages in iCloud brings your older history along.
Five Apple Messages prompts for the texts you lose track of, plus a checklist for before you grant access and for switching it off when you're done.
1. Find every text from the last 30 days where someone sent me an address, a booking confirmation or a phone number. List who sent it, the date and the exact message. 2. Which chats have I left without a reply in the last 7 days? List each person, their last message and the date. 3. Summarize my texts with [name] since [date]. What did we agree, and what did I say I would do? 4. Find the text where [name] mentioned [topic]. Quote the exact message and give me the date. If you can't find it, say so. 5. Draft a reply to [name]'s last message. Keep it [short and warm]. Show me the draft and don't send it.
Prompts, step-by-step guides and checklists you can put to work today.