iMessage and Kanvo: Bring Your History In, and Why Live iMessage Isn't Possible Yet

There is no supported way to connect a personal iMessage account to another app. What Kanvo can do is read your Messages history on your own device and import it, read-only, so it sits beside everything else. Here is how, and what Apple Messages for Business is waiting on.

Why there is no live iMessage

Apple offers no supported way for another app to send and receive a person's iMessages. The workarounds need an always-on Mac belonging to you, signed in to your Apple account and relaying messages for you. We have not built that, and we are not going to pretend a logo means we have.

What you can do: import your history

Your Mac keeps your Messages history in a database file on disk. Kanvo can read that file and import it, so years of conversations sit beside the rest of your inbox, searchable, and readable by the agent when you ask about them.

Apple Messages for Business

This is a different product: Apple's channel for customers who message a business from Maps, Safari, Siri or a button the business places. Kanvo's integration is written and tested, and it waits on Apple approving Kanvo as a Messaging Service Provider. That is a business process on Apple's side, not a switch we can fl…

Meanwhile

Your texts can come in through your own Google Messages if you use Android. How personal accounts connect.Your Kanvo number can call any phone. More.

Kanvo Team

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