ChatGPT's Mac App Can Now Read, Search and Send Your iMessages, and It Wants Full Disk Access
r/ChatGPT (corroborated by 9to5Mac, MacRumors)·medium signal
OpenAI shipped an Apple Messages plugin for the macOS ChatGPT app on August 20 that reads, searches, summarizes and sends across iMessage, SMS and RCS without copy-paste. It is available on every tier including free, works inside ChatGPT Work and Codex modes, and is Apple silicon only. Sending requires per-message approval, but enabling it requires granting Full Disk Access plus contacts and automation permissions, which is the whole local message archive handed to a cloud model. The r/ChatGPT thread ran 214 upvotes with the privacy objection front and center.