ChatGPT can now catch up on the text thread you have been avoiding, find what needs an answer and send the reply from your Mac.
OpenAI’s new plugin can search and summarize iMessage, SMS and RCS conversations after the user grants permission. It can then draft messages and deliver them through Apple’s Messages app.
That turns catching up from a reading session into a request. In OpenAI’s demonstration, ChatGPT searched the previous day’s conversations, found an unanswered book-club question and drafted a reply.
The important shift is not that AI can compose a text. It is that ChatGPT can use private conversations as working context, then act in the app where they live.
Who gets the final say
By default, ChatGPT asks the user to approve both the message and its recipients before sending. Users can instead give one conversation continuing permission to send without that last review, then revoke it later. Workspace administrators can disable the plugin.
OpenAI has not specified how much message history the plugin can reach, whether content chosen for a task leaves the Mac for OpenAI’s systems, or how long it is kept.
Apple has announced a Siri update for this fall that will search across messages, email, photos and more, then act across apps. Together, OpenAI’s shipped plugin and Apple’s promised update point to the same next stage for assistants: less copying context into a separate chat box, and more acting from the personal information already inside other apps.
The convenience is obvious. The approval matters because the person at the other end may be receiving words ChatGPT drafted, or sent without one last look.