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Apple's built-in messaging app for iOS and macOS, supporting iMessage, SMS and RCS texting between users and businesses.
DoorDash is running its AI ordering agent inside Apple's Messages app for 20,000 US pilot users on iOS, with checkout handled in the text thread. For now the channel is a bet on convenience and on DoorDash keeping its customer file, since it has released no basket figures for the pilot.
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OpenAI's new Apple Messages plugin reads, searches and sends iMessage, SMS and RCS threads from a Mac. Sending is approval-gated by default, which makes persistent approval an admin decision.
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The @messages connector turned up at the bottom of Connected Apps in version 1.116.5.889 of the Mac app. It can send plain text to any contact and search the local conversation history, under five documented limits.
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Apple's Messages app now handles in-line replies and reactions in RCS threads the way it handles them in iMessage. 9to5mac reports both belong to RCS 2.7, a standard whose edit and unsend features have yet to appear.
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Apple shipped iOS 27 this week and MacRumors counts 50 new features in what it calls a refinement year. Five of the seven features it details use Apple Intelligence, and the Wallet pass redesign is the one asking developers for work.
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MacRumors' iOS 27 guide describes one-tap suggestions that turn a thread into photos, calendar events and reminders. Every destination it names belongs to Apple.
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OpenAI's assurances about local processing describe what the vendor does with your texts. They say nothing about who agreed to supply them.
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