[nativeit]

Question from a relatively uninformed sysadmin/freelance I.T. provider—will these new iMessage functions allow for 3rd-party applications (ie—CRMs, client support platforms, etc.) to read and/or work with incoming iMessages from my iCloud account? The only thing I really miss since coming from Android was my ability to consolidate all of my client communications, many of whom send text messages first and foremost (which I prefer).

[css]

Apple provides Messages for Business [0], but if you have a machine that can read the iMessages as they come in, you could use the library [1] that powers `imessage-exporter` as a bridge.

[0]: https://register.apple.com/messages

[1]: https://docs.rs/imessage-database/latest/

[bengarney]

I have a product that does exactly this. E-mail me at ben AT theengine DOT co, I'd love to show it to you and see if it would help.

[setr]

Don’t know if it helps, but I know iMessage stores message data on MacBooks inside a SQLite file; I was scanning through it previously because I was trying to do a bulk search