For Claude Desktop on macOS 15 or later
Connect Claude to Messages
Yes, Claude can read your Messages. Pomeroy connects Claude to Messages on your Mac, so Claude can find a conversation, search your message history, and read a thread when you ask. Pomeroy cannot send messages or replies; it only reads.
Free for 50 actions a week. No account, no card.
What can you ask Claude to do in Messages?
- “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 Messages
- 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 Messages
- Send a message or a reply.
- Delete anything.
- Ask for Full Disk Access. It never does.
How to connect Claude to Messages
Pomeroy works inside Anthropic’s Claude Desktop, which is free. Get Claude Desktop first if you do not have it yet.
- 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
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
Set up the Claude extension.
Press Set up Claude extension and Claude Desktop asks to install it, with no file to find.
- 4
Ask Claude.
Try “Find the message with the door code.” and a real answer comes back.
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 Claude 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.
Try Claude with Messages.
Get 50 actions every week. No Pomeroy account or payment card required. Requires macOS 15 or later.