OpenAI has released a plug-in that connects ChatGPT to Apple Messages, extending the assistant into one of the most personal corners of a user's digital life, TechCrunch reports. Once a user links their Messages inbox, ChatGPT can search old conversations to dig up buried details, sort and analyze threads, and suggest follow-ups based on messages a person has received. It can also act on the user's behalf — drafting, sending, and even deleting texts.
The integration is aimed at professional workflows as well as personal ones. The plug-in works with Codex, OpenAI's coding agent, and with ChatGPT Work, the company's workplace offering, letting the assistant fold messaging context into business tasks.
OpenAI has emphasized how the system handles personal data. The plug-in runs locally on the user's machine, and the company said in a statement to Bloomberg that it does not create an index of all of a person's messages.
The launch comes with deliberate guardrails around sending. Users approve each outgoing text before it goes out, and OpenAI discourages switching on persistent approval, warning that the setting "removes your final chance to review a message before ChatGPT sends it as you." The company encourages people to keep an eye on what the assistant is doing whenever it is composing and sending messages.
For OpenAI, founded in 2015 and the maker of ChatGPT — which grew into one of the most widely used consumer applications in the world after its 2022 debut — the plug-in continues a steady push to move the assistant beyond the chat window and into the software people already use every day. Messaging is among the highest-frequency activities on any device, and wiring ChatGPT into Apple's default texting app puts the assistant directly inside those daily routines.