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Connect your AI assistant to Apple iMessage

Yes, your AI assistant can read your Messages, both iMessage and text conversations. Pomeroy connects your AI assistant to Messages on your Mac, so it can find a conversation, search your message history, and read a thread when you ask. Pomeroy cannot send messages or replies, and it never asks for Full Disk Access; it only reads.

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What can you ask your assistant to do in Apple iMessage?

  • “Find the message with the door code.”
  • “What did Sam say about the weekend?”
  • “Read me my latest messages from Mum.”
  • “Who has messaged me this week?”
  • “Find the address Alex texted me last month.”
  • “What was the name of the restaurant in my messages with Jo?”

What your assistant can do in Apple iMessage

  • List recent conversations and who is in them.
  • Search the text of every message.
  • Read one conversation's recent messages.

What Pomeroy will not do in Apple iMessage

  • Send a message or a reply.
  • Delete anything.
  • Ask for Full Disk Access. It never does.

How to connect your AI assistant to Apple iMessage

The same four steps whichever assistant you use. Each assistant also has its own page for Apple iMessage, below, with what Set up does there and how to check it worked.

  1. 1

    Download Pomeroy.

    Open the download, drag Pomeroy into Applications, and open it. Pomeroy adds an icon to your menu bar and opens a setup window listing every app it can connect. They all start switched off.

  2. 2

    Switch on Messages.

    There is no macOS prompt for Messages. Instead, a file dialog opens and you hand Pomeroy the one file Messages keeps your conversations in. Pomeroy keeps a read-only bookmark to it and never asks for Full Disk Access.

  3. 3

    Choose your AI assistant.

    Pomeroy lists the AI assistants it finds on this Mac. Press Set up beside yours: most take one click, and the rest take a configuration Pomeroy copies for you.

  4. 4

    Ask your assistant.

    Try “Find the message with the door code.” and a real answer comes back.

Connect a specific assistant to Apple iMessage

Not here: claude.ai, ChatGPT and Grok on the web. Why.

Can my AI assistant read my Messages?

Yes. Once you switch Messages on in Pomeroy, your assistant can list your recent conversations, search the text of every message, and read one conversation's recent messages.

Can my AI assistant reply to a message?

No. Pomeroy cannot send messages, so it cannot either. It can draft a reply for you to copy into Messages and send yourself.

How does Pomeroy get access to Messages?

You hand it the one file Messages keeps your conversations in, through a normal macOS file dialog. Pomeroy keeps a read-only bookmark to that file and never asks for Full Disk Access. Switch Messages off and the bookmark is all it loses.

Is it safe to give an AI assistant access to iMessage?

It is as safe as pasting the same messages into your assistant yourself. Pomeroy reads only the one file you picked, keeps a read-only bookmark to it, and has no tool that can send, so it cannot reply as you or be talked into it. What your assistant reads becomes part of your conversation with your assistant, the same as text you paste in, so ask about the messages you would be happy to paste.

Is this the same as Anthropic's iMessage plugin?

No. Anthropic's iMessage plugin is for Claude Code: it reads the Messages database directly, needs Full Disk Access for your Terminal, and sends replies through Messages so you can text your assistant from your phone. Pomeroy is a separate app, made by Joe Saunderson and not by Anthropic. It reads only the one file you pick, never asks for Full Disk Access, and cannot send anything.

How does Pomeroy compare with other tools?

Other apps also connect an AI assistant to Apple iMessage, and some are free. Pomeroy is the read-mostly one, and the comparison pages set out price, coverage and maintenance for each, with the date the facts were checked: Pomeroy vs iMCP, Pomeroy vs Macuse, Pomeroy vs LMCP, apple-mcp is archived. What should you use instead?.

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