ChatGPT Can Now Send Your Texts for You

OpenAI rolled out a plug-in that lets ChatGPT peek into your Apple Messages inbox. Instead of typing every reply yourself, you can ask the AI to draft, edit, or even send texts on your behalf. A demo shows the AI suggesting follow-ups based on yesterday’s messages. It also lets you search old chats or delete messages without opening the Messages app. The feature is designed for both personal and work use through Codex and ChatGPT Work.

Privacy is the big question mark. OpenAI says your messages stay local on your device and aren’t saved to its servers unless you choose to save the chat. The company claims it doesn’t build a full index of your messages. To make this work, you’ll need to grant ‘Full Disk Access,’ which gives the app broad file permissions. OpenAI warns against turning on ‘persistent approval,’ which could let the AI send messages without your final review.

Setting it up requires a few taps and trust. You must explicitly ask ChatGPT to read or act on your messages each time. The AI stores conversations on your computer by default, and cloud-saved chats follow the same retention policies as other saved content. OpenAI’s guidance suggests using this feature carefully to avoid accidental or tone-deaf auto-replies.

The plug-in is another step toward AI handling more of your digital tasks, but it’s not set-and-forget. You’ll still need to double-check what the AI proposes before it hits send, especially in work chats where one wrong message can cause real trouble.