OpenAI has introduced an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT that lets users read and search conversations, prepare messages, and send them through the Messages app on a Mac. It supports iMessage, SMS, and RCS chats.
Users can install the plugin from Plugins > Public and grant the required macOS permissions before ChatGPT can access Messages. Once installed, it can find, summarize, draft, or send messages, including tasks such as:
- Checking the calendar and replying to a contact with available times for dinner.
- Suggesting follow-ups from the previous day in Messages.
- Finding birthdays mentioned in messages and adding them to the calendar.
- Finding potential spam messages that users can delete.
Sending messages
By default, ChatGPT requires users to approve both the message and its recipients before sending. Users can choose Allow once to approve a single send or Always allow sending to this chat to let ChatGPT send future messages to that particular Messages chat without another approval.
OpenAI notes that persistent approval removes the final opportunity to review a message before ChatGPT sends it on the user’s behalf. To restore per-send approval, users can go to Settings > Computer use, select Manage next to Messages, and remove the relevant chat from Always allowed to send.
There is a known issue where Apple Messages may be unable to display the required send confirmation when a task is set to Full access or otherwise disables approval prompts. In such cases, OpenAI recommends switching to Ask for approval or Approve for me and trying again.
Availability
The Apple Messages plugin is available on all plans in the ChatGPT desktop app for macOS and works with ChatGPT Work and Codex. For this release, it is available only in the Apple Silicon (arm64) build, so Intel-based Macs are not supported.
The plugin runs through Messages on the Mac and is not available in ChatGPT on the web or mobile, Codex CLI, or the IDE extension. It also does not allow users to interact with ChatGPT remotely through Messages and does not work in regular ChatGPT chats.
In managed workspaces, administrators can disable Apple Messages through the existing Computer Use control.