OpenAI has added a new Apple Messages integration to ChatGPT for Mac, giving the AI access to conversations stored in the Messages app. The integration can read, search, analyze, prepare, and send messages, making it possible to interact with iMessage, SMS, and RCS conversations directly through ChatGPT on a Mac.
The feature is available across all ChatGPT plans and is available with both ChatGPT Work and Codex on Apple silicon Macs, as Intel-based Macs are not supported.
With the Messages integration enabled, ChatGPT can search through conversations on your Mac and use the information in those conversations when completing tasks. It can also prepare messages and send them through Apple’s Messages app.
This makes the integration more useful than simply asking ChatGPT to draft a text. For example, you could ask it to find a previous conversation, identify information from a message, summarize what someone has discussed with you, or prepare a response based on the existing conversation.
Sending messages is still controlled by the user by default. ChatGPT will ask for approval before sending a message and confirming its recipients. Users should be careful when granting persistent approval, as this removes some of those confirmation steps.
Everyday conversations just got easier with the new Apple Messages plugin.
Search messages, catch up on conversations, draft and send replies—all with ChatGPT on your Mac.
Now available in ChatGPT Work and Codex on desktop. pic.twitter.com/nicfZMuxZc
— ChatGPT (@ChatGPT) August 20, 2026
The integration supports the following actions:
- iMessage conversations
- SMS messages
- RCS conversations
- Searching and reading existing conversations
- Analyzing message history
- Preparing messages
- Sending messages through the Messages app
You can also try prompts such as:
- Check my calendar and reply to [name] with a few times I’m free for dinner next week
- Suggest follow ups from yesterday in messages
- Find birthdays in @ messages and add them to my calendar
- Find potential spam messages I can delete
The integration also does not work in regular ChatGPT chats and is currently focused on ChatGPT Work and Codex.
The privacy implications are probably the most important part of this update. Giving an AI access to personal conversations is significantly different from using ChatGPT to write an email or summarize a document. Messages can contain personal conversations, phone numbers, photos, addresses, financial information, and other sensitive details.
Users should therefore pay attention to which permissions they grant and avoid enabling persistent approval unless they are comfortable with ChatGPT acting on their behalf. Access can be revoked if users no longer want ChatGPT to interact with their Messages data.
The Messages integration is part of a broader update to ChatGPT for Mac. OpenAI has also added synchronization for pinned chats between the Mac and iPhone apps, allowing important conversations to remain accessible across devices. The update also introduces shared, read-only snapshots for local Codex threads, improvements to collaborative Sites, and additional availability for the optional Computer History feature in some regions.
For Apple users, however, the Messages integration is easily the most interesting addition. Apple has been gradually adding more AI capabilities across its operating systems, but this feature comes from the other direction. Instead of Apple expanding its own AI to understand more of your data, ChatGPT is gaining access to another important part of the Mac experience.
