{"id":147288,"date":"2026-08-21T13:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/147288\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T13:32:08","slug":"apple-faces-privacy-questions-as-openais-chatgpt-gains-control-of-imessage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/147288\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple faces privacy questions as OpenAI&#8217;s ChatGPT gains control of iMessage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/macdailynews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/240830_open_ai.png?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/240830_open_ai.png\" alt=\"OpenAI\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-276320\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>OpenAI has introduced a new capability that lets ChatGPT take control of Apple\u2019s iMessage service, a development that could heighten privacy concerns for the Cupertino colossus, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-08-20\/chatgpt-can-now-control-imessage-potentially-raising-apple-privacy-concerns\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg News\u2019 Mark Gurman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The feature, which rolled out Thursday and is available in ChatGPT on the Mac, enables the AI system to read, write, and send text messages. It can also search message history, generate summaries, and pull other information from conversations in the Apple Messages app.<\/p>\n<p>While the integration offers greater convenience for users who want AI assistance with their communications, it raises questions about how much access third-party systems should have to personal messaging data on Apple devices. Apple has long positioned privacy as a core strength of its ecosystem, making the expansion of ChatGPT\u2019s reach into iMessage a notable development.<\/p>\n<p>MacDailyNews Take: Ay yi yi.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<br \/>Please help support MacDailyNews \u2014 and enjoy subscriber-only articles, comments, chat, and more \u2014 by subscribing to our Substack: <a href=\"https:\/\/macdailynews.substack.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">macdailynews.substack.com<\/a>. Thank you!<\/p>\n<p>Support MacDailyNews at no extra cost to you by <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4bU0sHZ\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">using this link to shop at Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI has introduced a new capability that lets ChatGPT take control of Apple\u2019s iMessage service, a development that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":147289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[580,36208,157,508,314],"class_list":["post-147288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-chatgpt","tag-imessage","tag-openai","tag-privacy","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}