Can you text an AI for homework help?

Yes, but the list is shorter than you would expect. ChatGPT, the AI most students use, does not take text messages, and in January Meta pushed outside AI bots off WhatsApp.

Why texting an AI is different from opening an app

The obvious reason is that your messages are already open. The bigger one is that an AI in your texts can message you first. An app waits for you to remember it. A text can show up the night before something is due.

What you can text right now

On iPhones with Apple Intelligence, Siri can also pass a question to ChatGPT. That is handy for a quick answer, but it is a voice assistant, not a thread you can come back to.

What to look for in a homework AI you text

• It knows what is due. If you have to type every assignment in yourself, you are still your own planner. Look for one that reads Google Classroom.
• It works where the assignment lives. An answer in a chat bubble still has to get into your Doc or your slides. The useful ones put the work in the file.
• It reads photos. Plenty of homework is still a worksheet on paper. Being able to send a picture of it matters more than any feature list.
• It asks before it acts. Anything that touches your schoolwork should check with you first.

Apollo: the one we are building for this

Apollo is the AI inside Write It’s Chrome extension and website, and it is coming to iMessage. Connect Google Classroom and it texts you before things are due. Send it a photo of a worksheet, a file or a voice memo and it reads it. Say yes and it gets the work done in Docs, Slides or Canva, with realistic typing and our humanizer built in. It is the same Apollo, with the same memory, as in the extension.