{
  "id": 2247803,
  "title": "ChatGPT Can Now Read and Send iMessages on Mac",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/chatgpt-can-now-read-and-send-imessages-on-mac",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-20T23:12:55.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "MacRumors",
    "slug": "macrumors",
    "url": "https://www.macrumors.com/2026/08/20/chatgpt-imessages-mac/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "OpenAI has unveiled a new Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, enabling Mac users to utilize the AI to search, draft, analyze, and send messages. Users can install the plugin from the ChatGPT Plugins interface, which falls under the Public category. OpenAI recommends beginning with prompts such as checking calendars and replying to contacts with available dinner times, suggesting follow-ups from previous conversations, finding birthdays in messages and adding them to calendars, and identifying potential spam messages for deletion. ChatGPT can access iMessages, SMS messages, and RCS messages, but sending a message requires user approval by default. Users should refrain from granting persistent approval, as OpenAI advises against it. For the Messages integration to function, ChatGPT needs Full Disk Access in System Settings, along with access to contact names and automation tools. While the article does not explicitly mention Apple's involvement in the plugin's development, it notes that the plugin utilizes AppleScript and Accessibility settings to operate on a Mac. The development of the Messages integration involves Apple and OpenAI, who are currently embroiled in a legal dispute over trade secret theft. The Messages integration is currently available in ChatGPT Work and Codex on the desktop version of ChatGPT, but not in regular ChatGPT chats. It is accessible to all ChatGPT users with an Apple silicon Mac.",
  "summary": "OpenAI today said there's a new Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, allowing ChatGPT on Mac to search messages, draft messages, analyze conversations, and send replies to people. The Apple Messages plugin can be installed from the ChatGPT Plugins interface, and it is listed under Public. OpenAI suggests users try these prompts: Check my calendar and reply to [name] with a few times I'm free for…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Digital Trends",
        "title": "ChatGPT can now read your Apple Messages chats on Mac",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/chatgpt-can-now-read-your-apple-messages-chats-on-mac",
        "published": "2026-08-20T21:36:44.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}