Connect Claude to Apple iMessage

Name: Pomeroy
Price: 19 USD

Yes, Claude can read your Messages, both iMessage and text conversations. Pomeroy connects Claude 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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Free for 50 actions a week. No account, no card. Or get Claude Desktop first.

What can you ask Claude 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 Claude 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 claude to apple imessage

Pomeroy lists the assistants it finds on this Mac, so install Claude Desktop first if it is not there yet.

1
Download Pomeroy and switch on Apple iMessage.
Open the download, drag Pomeroy into Applications, and open it. Pomeroy opens a setup window listing every app it can connect. 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.
2
Press Set up beside Claude Desktop.
Pomeroy opens the Claude extension it ships with, and Claude Desktop shows its own install prompt. Approve it. Nothing is written to Claude's configuration file.
3
Check Claude Desktop.
In Claude Desktop, open Settings › Extensions and Pomeroy is listed. In a new chat, the tools menu under the message box shows Pomeroy's tools, one set for each app you switched on. Quit Claude Desktop and open it again.
4
Ask Claude Desktop something.
Try “Find the message with the door code.” and a real answer comes back.

The configuration, in full

Set up writes it for you. The documentation has the exact text, where it goes, and how to check it worked.

Can Claude read my Messages?

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

Can Claude 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 Claude access to iMessage?

It is as safe as pasting the same messages into Claude 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 Claude reads becomes part of your conversation with Claude, 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 Claude 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.

Claude Desktop does not show Pomeroy's tools.

Quit Claude Desktop completely and open it again; it reads its configuration when it starts. Then press Set up again in Pomeroy, under Settings › Assistants: every way Pomeroy sets an assistant up is safe to run twice. Pomeroy's menu bar shows whether Claude Desktop is connected right now.

Claude with other apps

Apple iMessage with other assistants

Try Claude with Apple iMessage.

Get 50 actions every week. No Pomeroy account or payment card required. Requires macOS 15 or later.