# Connect Grok Bot to iMessage: Read, Triage, Reply | SealGate Yes, Grok bot can use iMessage. Connect it with SealGate's MCP connector, and Grok reads your texts, flags what needs an answer and drafts replies you approve. 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Part of the [iMessage setup guide](https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage) , which covers every agent and how the connection works under the hood. iMessage Inbox 3 chats need a reply CRM Syncer Logged 4 new contacts Research Bot Competitor summary ready Outreach Bot Drafted 12 follow-ups QA Bot No blockers today iMessage Inbox Catch me up on iMessage and draft replies. Don't send anything yet. SealGate list_chats, read_messages 3 chats need you. Maya asked if Friday still works, your landlord wants the meter reading, and Sam shared the deck. I drafted replies to Maya and your landlord. SealGate send_message held Your SealGate policy holds sends until you approve. Approve both drafts? + Message iMessage Inbox Paste this into your coding agent, or run it yourself in a terminal. Agent prompt easier Terminal faster ## Set up Grokbot for iMessage, step by step - 1 ### Create your SealGate account from this link If you do not already have a SealGate account, sign up at the link below. Starting from it pre-approves the Beeper connector for your new account, so after you install there is nothing to approve by hand. Already have an account? Skip ahead and you will approve Beeper once in the dashboard (last step). https://dashboard.sealgate.ai/start/personal-messaging?utm_source=sealgate.ai&utm_campaign=seo-connect&utm_content=imessage-grokbot - 2 ### Install the messaging connector Run the one-line installer for your OS (macOS or Windows). It installs sealgate-stdiod and the Beeper connector, which bridges your messaging accounts through the Beeper desktop app on your own logins, and connects it to your SealGate account. If you signed up through the link above it is approved automatically; otherwise it waits for a one-time approval in your dashboard. macOS / Linux Windows (PowerShell) curl -fsSL https://sealgate.ai/install-beeper.sh | SEALGATE_UTM_CAMPAIGN=seo-connect SEALGATE_UTM_CONTENT=imessage-grokbot bash $env:SEALGATE_UTM_CAMPAIGN='seo-connect'; $env:SEALGATE_UTM_CONTENT='imessage-grokbot'; powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "irm https://sealgate.ai/install-beeper.ps1 | iex" - 3 ### Get your MCP URL for Grokbot In the SealGate dashboard, open Settings, click Get MCP URL and pick Grokbot. You get https://mcp.sealgate.ai/mcp/ followed by your personal API key and ?client=grokbot, which SealGate needs to recognize Grokbot. The gateway address is public, but this full URL carries your key, so treat it like a password. - 4 ### Add SealGate as a custom connector in Grokbot Open Grokbot's Connectors / MCP settings and add a custom MCP server. Set the transport to Streamable HTTP, paste the URL from the previous step as the server URL, set authentication to None and save. Grokbot is an xAI beta on Grok's paid plans. - 5 ### Approve the connector if you skipped the signup link If you created your account through the signup link above, Beeper is already approved, so you are done. Otherwise, open the SealGate dashboard and approve the Beeper connector once. Either way every call the agent makes is policy-checked and logged, and you can keep it read-only until you want the agent to reply on your behalf. - 6 ### Ask Grokbot Start a conversation and say what you need. Every call goes through SealGate, where it is policy-checked and logged, and sends can require your approval. Summarize my unread messages and draft replies for me to approve. Please help me connect iMessage to Grokbot through SealGate on my machine. If I do not already have a SealGate account, have me sign up at https://dashboard.sealgate.ai/start/personal-messaging?utm_source=sealgate.ai&utm_campaign=seo-connect&utm_content=imessage-grokbot first, since starting there pre-approves the Beeper connector. Then follow the setup steps at https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage/grokbot.md and stop whenever I need to act myself: approving this device in the browser when the installer asks, and, only if I already had an account, approving the Beeper connector in the SealGate dashboard. Requires macOS or Windows (Linux is experimental) with the Beeper desktop app installed. ## Connecting Grokbot Grokbot adds the SealGate gateway as a custom MCP connector over its public gateway URL, so xAI's cloud agent can work on your messages without you running an agent on your own machine. See the [Grokbot setup guide](https://sealgate.ai/docs/connect-clients/grokbot) for the exact steps. ## What Grokbot can do with iMessage - Triage unread texts and draft replies in your own voice for you to send. - Summarize a long thread so you catch up in seconds. - Find that address, link, or photo someone texted you weeks ago. - Turn a text conversation into a task or calendar note. Ready to let Grokbot handle your iMessage? Paste the setup prompt into your coding agent and you are connected in a couple of minutes. Copy setup prompt [New to SealGate? Create your account first](https://dashboard.sealgate.ai/start/personal-messaging?utm_source=sealgate.ai&utm_campaign=seo-connect&utm_content=imessage-grokbot) ## What Grok does with your iMessage Point Grok at iMessage and it works through your texts for you. It reads what came in, tells you which threads actually need an answer, and drafts each reply in your voice. Nothing goes out until you approve it. ## You set the rules in plain English You decide what Grok is allowed to do by saying it, not by configuring anything. Tell SealGate the outcome you want and the limits around it, for example: "Let Grok read my texts and draft replies, but never send without my approval, and never touch my family group chat." SealGate turns that sentence into a policy and enforces it on everything Grok does. Grok can triage and draft all day; the moment it tries something outside your rules, SealGate blocks it, and you get a running record of exactly what it did. ## Why connect iMessage through SealGate One setup for every app, works with cloud and mobile agents, fully governed and logged, and your messages are never stored. ### One setup, every network The same command connects your whole unified inbox, so you are not wiring up a separate bridge for each app. ### Works with cloud and mobile agents A local daemon tunnels the connector out, so ChatGPT, Claude, and other cloud agents can use it, not just CLI tools. ### Governed and logged Every tool call runs through SealGate policies and lands in an audit trail that records only metadata, never your message content, so access stays under your control. ### SealGate never stores your messages Message content only passes through in transit to be checked against your policies, and is never stored or read by anyone at SealGate. ## Related guides [ChatGPT on iMessage](https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage/chatgpt) [Connect Claude to iMessage](https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage/claude) [Codex on iMessage](https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage/codex) [iMessage to OpenCode](https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage/opencode) [Use Devin with iMessage](https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage/devin) [Connect GitHub Copilot to iMessage](https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage/copilot) [iMessage to Grok](https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage/grok) [Connect Hermes to iMessage](https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage/hermes) [OpenClaw on iMessage](https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage/openclaw) [iMessage to Lovable](https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage/lovable) [Connect Replit to iMessage](https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage/replit) [Connect Muse to iMessage](https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage/muse) [Connect Town to iMessage](https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage/town) [Connect Grokbot to WhatsApp](https://sealgate.ai/connect/whatsapp/grokbot) [Grokbot on Telegram](https://sealgate.ai/connect/telegram/grokbot) [Connect Grokbot to LinkedIn DMs](https://sealgate.ai/connect/linkedin/grokbot) [Connect Grokbot to Signal](https://sealgate.ai/connect/signal/grokbot) [Use Grokbot with Instagram DMs](https://sealgate.ai/connect/instagram/grokbot) [Messenger to Grokbot](https://sealgate.ai/connect/messenger/grokbot) [Connect Grokbot to X DMs](https://sealgate.ai/connect/x/grokbot) [Connect Grokbot to Discord DMs](https://sealgate.ai/connect/discord/grokbot) [Connect Grokbot to LINE](https://sealgate.ai/connect/line/grokbot) [All iMessage setups](https://sealgate.ai/connect/imessage) [SealGate vs other MCP gateways](https://sealgate.ai/comparison) ## Connecting iMessage to Grokbot: FAQ Can Grok bot connect to iMessage? Yes. Grok bot adds the SealGate gateway as a custom MCP connector and can use your iMessage tools from xAI's cloud. A local daemon tunnels the connector out, so the cloud agent can still reach it. Do I need a Mac? iMessage runs on Apple's network, so connecting it through the Beeper desktop app needs an Apple device signed in to iMessage. Once connected, any agent you point at it can use it. Where do my messages go? Your iMessage history and login are never stored on SealGate's servers. When your agent makes a call, the request and response route through SealGate to be policy checked in memory, and only metadata about the call is logged (which tool ran, when, and which agent ran it). SealGate never stores the message content itself. What does SealGate store about my messages? SealGate routes each tool call to your connector and back, holding the request and response in memory only long enough to apply your policies, then discarding them. That check is automated: the gateway inspects the traffic programmatically to enforce your rules, and no one at SealGate can read your messages. They are never persisted and never used to train any model. SealGate keeps only call metadata (which tool ran, when, and which agent ran it), never the tool-call parameters or results, so your conversations and who you are talking to are never stored on SealGate's servers. Can the agent send texts, or only read them? Both. You decide through SealGate policies whether a given agent can only read, or can also send, and every send is recorded in the audit log as metadata (that it happened, when, and by which agent), never the text of the message itself. Want the full walkthrough? 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