Texting Coco from your phone

You do not have to open the app to use Coco. With iMessage connected, Coco can text you your brief, nudge you when something needs a reply, and let you respond in a normal text conversation — all on your own number, the way you would text anyone else.

What texting Coco feels like

Once it is set up, Coco shows up as a normal conversation. It can send you the morning brief as a message, and you can text back the way you would a person: "reply to Sam that Friday works," "what's on my calendar today," "add lunch with Alex Thursday at noon." Coco does the work and texts you back. The same rule holds over text as everywhere else — Coco drafts and confirms, and nothing is sent or scheduled without your okay.

The one-time setup

Texting runs through iMessage on a Mac tied to your number, so the setup is a one-time connection between Coco and that Mac. The full step-by-step lives in the project's setup guide rather than here, because it depends on your own machine — once it is connected, you will not have to touch it again.

A note on how it is delivered today

Texting currently runs over iMessage, which means it relies on a Mac being available to relay messages. Plain SMS that works without a Mac left running is on the roadmap, but is not here yet. If you do not use a Mac, you can still use Coco fully in the app and chat — texting is an add-on, not a requirement.

If texts stop arriving

Because iMessage depends on that Mac, the usual reason texts go quiet is that the Mac went to sleep, lost its connection, or signed out of Messages. Check that it is awake and online. For anything Coco-side, the same troubleshooting applies as elsewhere — see when the daily sync hangs — and you can always fall back to the in-app chat.