Mark GurmanAug 21, 2026 – 11.03amLos Angeles | OpenAI rolled out support on Thursday (Friday AEST) for controlling Apple’s iMessage service via ChatGPT, a move with the potential to raise privacy concerns for the iPhone maker.The new feature, available for ChatGPT on the Mac, allows the OpenAI system to take actions such as reading, writing and sending text messages. It also can search through messages and get summaries and other information about conversations from the Apple Messages app.BloombergSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Now ChatGPT can write and control your Apple messages too
The new feature allows the OpenAI system to take actions such as reading, writing and sending text messages, raising privacy concerns for the iPhone maker.
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OpenAI rolled out ChatGPT control of iMessage on Mac, enabling read, write, send, and conversation summaries. The move signals copilots expanding beyond web into device OS, raising privacy and control implications for Apple's locked ecosystem.
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