Connect SMS to Perplexity

• Catch you up

  Ask what you missed and Perplexity 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. Perplexity searches your SMS history and quotes the message.

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• Draft replies

  Perplexity 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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• Perplexity

  What did I miss in my SMS chats today?

• Perplexity

  Summarize the family group on SMS since Friday.

• Perplexity

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

• Perplexity

  Find the address my sister sent me on SMS.

• Perplexity

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

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   Add ConnectChats to Perplexity

   • In Perplexity, open Settings, then Connectors, and add a custom remote connector.
   • Paste https://api.connectchats.com/mcp as the server URL and choose OAuth sign-in.
   • Perplexity opens the ConnectChats sign-in page, where you sign in with your passkey.
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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 Perplexity can see

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

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   Ask Perplexity about your SMS

   Open a new conversation in Perplexity and ask about your chats. Perplexity 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 Perplexity

  Perplexity adds custom remote connectors on its paid plans, and ConnectChats works as one. Add it once, sign in with your passkey, and Perplexity can search the chats you share alongside the web. Custom remote connectors in Perplexity need a paid plan. On Enterprise, an admin has to allow members to add them. The same ConnectChats account works in every AI app, so the chats you already linked are available in Perplexity without linking them again. ConnectChats only sees the chats you choose to share, and it asks for your approval before any reply is sent.

• You pick the chats

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

• Drafts by default

  Perplexity 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