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Policy2026-08-21 · source-backed
Shipped August 20 across iMessage, SMS and RCS, available on every tier including free, working inside ChatGPT Work and Codex modes, Apple silicon only. Sending requires per-message approval, but enabling it requires Full Disk Access plus contacts and automation permissions. r/ChatGPT That's the entire local message archive handed to a cloud model, and the per-message send approval is doing very little work against the read path. The r/ChatGPT thread ran 214 upvotes with privacy front and center.
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