Connect SMS to Claude

• Catch you up

  Ask what you missed and Claude reads your unread SMS chats, then gives you the short version: who needs an answer, what was decided, what can wait.

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• Find any message

  The address someone sent last month, the price a client agreed to, the link from a group chat. Claude searches your SMS history and quotes the message.

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• Draft replies

  Claude writes the reply in your tone, in the chat's language, with the context of the whole thread. You read it, edit it, and send it.

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• Send with your OK

  When you approve a draft, ConnectChats sends it from your own SMS account and confirms delivery. Auto-send only runs in chats where you switch it on.

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  What did I miss in my SMS chats today?

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  Summarize the family group on SMS since Friday.

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  Who asked me a question on SMS that I haven't answered?

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  Find the address my sister sent me on SMS.

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  Draft a reply to Alex on SMS saying I can make it Saturday.

1. 1

   Add ConnectChats to Claude

   • In Claude on the web or desktop, go to Customize, then Connectors.
   • Click + Add, then Add custom connector. Name it ConnectChats, paste https://api.connectchats.com/mcp as the URL and click Continue.
   • Keep the detected sign-in settings, click Add, then connect. Sign in with your passkey and allow access.
   • In a chat, click + at the lower left, choose Connectors and make sure ConnectChats is on.
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   Link your SMS account

   • Open https://connectchats.com/app and choose Link a chat app, then SMS.
   • On Android, open Google Messages, tap your profile picture, then Device pairing, and scan the QR code shown in ConnectChats.
   • On iPhone, install the ConnectChats relay on a Mac signed in to Messages, and turn on Text Message Forwarding for that Mac on your iPhone.
   • Your chats then appear in the dashboard, where you choose which ones your AI app can see.
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   Pick the chats Claude can see

   Every chat is listed in your ConnectChats dashboard. Share all of them or only the ones you choose. Claude never sees the rest.

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   Ask Claude about your SMS

   Open a new conversation in Claude and ask about your chats. Claude calls ConnectChats when it needs your messages.

• SMS in ConnectChats

  SMS and MMS are supported on both phones, and RCS chats on Android. The phone, or the Mac on iPhone, has to stay on and online, because it is the device that actually sends and receives the texts. When a chat is linked, it starts with its last 200 messages, then everything new. Texts are sent from your own number, after you approve them.

• ConnectChats in Claude

  Claude supports remote MCP servers as custom connectors. Add ConnectChats once, sign in with your passkey, and switch it on in any conversation where you want Claude to see your chats. Custom connectors work on every Claude plan, including Free, which allows one custom connector. On Team and Enterprise plans, members cannot add connectors themselves. An owner adds ConnectChats in Organization settings, then each member connects their own account. Add the connector on the web or desktop. It then works in the Claude iPhone and Android apps too. Claude connects from Anthropic's cloud, not from your computer, so nothing needs to stay running on your side.

• You pick the chats

  Claude only sees the SMS chats you share. Unshare a chat and it disappears from every AI app at once.

• Drafts by default

  Claude prepares replies. You approve each one before it reaches SMS, unless you turn on auto-send for that chat.

• Stored messages are encrypted

  Stored messages are encrypted with a key that only your passkey can unlock. We never train models on your messages.

How we protect your messages