Instinct brings its group AI agent to iMessage for all users
The feature, announced for early access on October 5th, gives an existing group chat its own assistant and lets people without Instinct accounts participate.
By Ryan Merket · Published
Why it matters
Instinct is moving a personal assistant into conversations with multiple people, where group usefulness depends on keeping shared chat context separate from private accounts and controlling what gets shared when membership changes.

Instinct opened its group-chat assistant to everyone on iMessage on October 27th, putting a shared AI agent inside conversations that can include people who do not have Instinct accounts. Founder Noah Shinn (@noahrshinn) described the expansion in a post on X. The feature first entered early access on October 5th, when Shinn laid out how the shared assistant would work in a separate announcement.…
When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission. This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.