OpenAI today announced a new Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT, allowing ChatGPT on Mac to search for messages, compose messages, analyze conversations, and send replies to people.
The Apple Messages plugin can be installed from the ChatGPT Plugins interface and it is listed under Public. OpenAI suggests users try these prompts:
- Check my calendar and reply to (name) several times. I’m free for dinner next week.
- Suggest follow-ups from yesterday in messages
- Search for birthdays in @messages and add them to my calendar
- Check for potential spam messages that I can delete
ChatGPT can access iMessages, SMS messages and RCS messages. Sending a message requires user approval by default and OpenAI warns against granting persistent approval. For message integration to work, ChatGPT needs full disk access in system settings, as well as access to contact names and automation tools.
Apple’s involvement in the development of the plugin is unknown, but it uses AppleScript and accessibility settings to work on a Mac. Apple and OpenAI are currently facing off in court after Apple sued OpenAI for stealing trade secrets.
Message embedding is available in ChatGPT Work and Codex in the desktop version of ChatGPT, but it does not work in regular ChatGPT chats. It is available to all ChatGPT users with an Apple Silicon Mac.
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