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Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 20
OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Apple Messages Plugin, Letting Users Draft and Send Texts
Updated
Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 20

OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Apple Messages Plugin, Letting Users Draft and Send Texts

3 articles · Updated · TechCrunch · Aug 20

Summary

  • OpenAI has released an Apple Messages plugin for ChatGPT that connects a user’s inbox to the chatbot for sorting, analyzing, editing, searching, drafting and sending messages.
  • The company is pitching the tool for both personal and workplace use, saying it also works with Codex and ChatGPT Work; a demo showed ChatGPT suggesting follow-up texts from the previous day’s conversations.
  • OpenAI told Bloomberg the plugin runs locally on a user’s machine and does not create an index of all messages, though the exact privacy boundaries were not immediately clear.
  • For message sending, OpenAI warns users to monitor ChatGPT’s actions and avoid persistent approval, saying that setting removes the final chance to review a text before it is sent.

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