2026-08-21 / Signal #5
ChatGPT Plugin Lets It Read and Send Your iMessages on Mac
“ChatGPT can now read your iMessages and text people as you.”
The Story
OpenAI released an Apple Messages plugin for the ChatGPT Mac app that can search, analyze, draft, and send iMessage/SMS/RCS conversations (with user approval). It requires Full Disk Access and is currently limited to ChatGPT Work and Codex users. Sending still needs confirmation by default.
Why It Matters
Your private text history just became queryable context for an AI that can now speak in your name. Identity, intimacy, and the last analog social graph getting an AI co-pilot.
Evidence
MacRumors, OpenAI announcement
Sources
Daily scan: 2026-08-21