WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Get Meta AI-Powered Wallpapers From Users: Here's How
WhatsApp chats will soon get the ability to to have AI wallpapers thanks to Meta and the update should be there in the coming months.
WhatsApp has used the power of Meta AI to offer a slew of features for its users and soon we could see another interesting use of AI to personalise chats. Yes, Meta AI will have the option to create AI wallpapers for the chat interface with your friends and family. You can simply use text prompt to get a new AI wallpaper generated and use it as the background wallpaper for your chats.
WhatsApp AI Wallpapers For Chat: How It Works
The details about this feature come via WaBetaInfo in a post this week, where the tipster says the new tool should be available in the coming months. If you are bored with the green or black coloured chat background, the Meta AI feature upgrade will surely get you excited.
The good thing about AI wallpapers is that you can create anything using text prompts and even modify them later with new colours, objects or even animals in the background.
For all these years, WhatsApp has limited the wallpaper options to the regular colours which eventually changed to more themes and bubble colours last year. Now, it has Meta AI to build on these features and give people more options to personalise the chats for all contacts or their close friends.
Meta AI has branched out into a standalone app which not only supports all these features but also lets you talk to the AI chatbot similar to ChatGPT 4o voice mode and Gemini Live.
Having said that, WhatsApp is extremely popular across the globe and more AI features will only make it more appealing to more users. The platform is also looking to secure all the AI tools with private computing like Apple AI which could include these features in the near future.
This means the platform will allow you to create the group and gradually add people by sharing the group link or invite with them. While this may not sound like a big deal, the messaging app is clearly making it easy to make groups and eventually bring members to them.
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May 07, 2025, 08:35 IST
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