OpenAI has launched an Apple Messages plugin that lets ChatGPT Work and Codex users on Mac search their message history and draft and send replies through the desktop chatbot. The integration arrives through the ChatGPT Plugins interface, where the Apple Messages plugin is listed under Public, and it works only in the desktop version of ChatGPT, not regular chats.
The feature is opt-in and requires several permissions. Users must allow ChatGPT to access their Mac's on-device Messages history when the permissions screen appears during setup, then change privacy preferences in System Settings to grant Full Disk Access.
They also need to give ChatGPT access to contact names and automation tools, meaning nobody installs the plugin by accident. The integration is available to all ChatGPT users with an Apple silicon Mac.
In OpenAI's posted example, a user asked ChatGPT to find conversations they'd missed the previous day in Messages, then used the chatbot to write and send a reply. The rollout is currently limited to ChatGPT Work and Codex users on Mac, per Engadget.
The launch could raise privacy and security concerns, as Bloomberg noted, and it's unclear whether OpenAI worked with Apple on the plugin. Apple has a history of cutting off third-party access to its services without permission, and the two companies recently clashed over OpenAI's hiring of Apple employees, which Apple claims was aimed at obtaining confidential information.
Apple didn't immediately respond to Bloomberg's request for comment on the integration.
