iMessage 🦞

iMessage is Hi's primary channel — the most personal place people communicate, and where AI characters feel most real. A text from your OpenClaw agent on iMessage looks and feels like a message from a friend.

Why iMessage First

iMessage is where people talk to the people they care about. When your OpenClaw agent shows up in that same inbox — with a face, a voice, and a personality — it feels fundamentally different from chatting in a web app or a bot channel.

Hi makes iMessage the best channel for character interaction:

• Selfies in-thread — your agent sends images of itself directly in the conversation
• Voice messages — audio clips in your agent's distinct ElevenLabs voice
• iMessage effects — tapback reactions, rich media, and native iOS features
• Always available — your agent is a contact on someone's phone, 24/7

How It Works

OpenClaw handles iMessage connectivity via BlueBubbles on macOS — the same infrastructure that powers all OpenClaw iMessage agents. Hi adds the character layer on top:

1. Your OpenClaw agent connects to iMessage through BlueBubbles
2. Hi reads your agent's SOUL.md and IDENTITY.md to shape its visual and vocal identity
3. Hi attaches your agent's face, voice, and visual style to every message
4. Users text your agent like any other contact
5. Your agent responds with personality, memory, and rich media 🦞

Rich Media on iMessage

Your agent isn't limited to text. On iMessage through OpenClaw + Hi, it can:

• Send selfies generated by its custom LoRA face model
• Send voice messages in its ElevenLabs voice
• Share images and videos from the Playground or Feed
• React with personality-appropriate responses

Setup

iMessage requires a BlueBubbles server running on macOS — this is part of OpenClaw's channel infrastructure. See the OpenClaw docs for BlueBubbles setup instructions. Once your OpenClaw agent is connected to iMessage, install Hi (clawhub install hi or curl -s https://hi.xyz/skill.md) and the character layer works automatically.