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India Today
08-05-2025
- India Today
WhatsApp will soon summarise your chats privately, thanks to Meta AI
Meta introduced Meta AI to WhatsApp in April 2024. Since then, the company has been actively working to bring new features on board. These features aim to make WhatsApp more user-friendly and efficient. Adding on to the list, Meta's messaging app is currently working on to introduce a message summarisation feature. Powered by MetaAI, the feature is designed to summerise your chats in personal conversations, groups, and channels. This will not only help you understand the crux of the message, but will also save you time. According to the WABeta report, this feature has already been rolled out for the WhatsApp Beta version. advertisementWhatsApp message summarisation featureWhatsApp is working on a new feature that will let you catch up on long conversations more easily by offering private summaries of unread messages, powered by Meta AI. This function is particularly useful for group chats and busy channels, where staying on top of new messages can be overwhelming. How will it work? According to the WABeta report, when a conversation has a high volume of unread messages, a button will appear prompting you to generate a summary. If you choose to use it, your request will be securely handled using Meta's Private Processing technology, an infrastructure specifically designed to protect message content. The entire process is carried out in a secure environment, ensuring that neither WhatsApp, Meta, nor any third party has access to your messages. The summary is delivered directly back to your device without any of the message content being stored or Despite the strong privacy safeguards in place — with many parts of the Private Processing system even being open-sourced for scrutiny by security researchers — the feature will not be available in chats where Advanced Chat Privacy is turned on. This is not due to concerns about the technology's security, but rather to respect users who prefer not to use AI-based tools in certain summarisation option will appear in chats, groups, and channels, giving users a quick way to regain context without trawling through every message — all while upholding end-to-end encryption. The feature is expected to be included in a future Advanced Chat Privacy featureMeta has introduced a new Advanced Chat Privacy setting on WhatsApp, offering users even greater control over their conversations—particularly useful in group chats where not all participants are personally familiar with one latest feature builds on WhatsApp's existing privacy toolkit, which already includes disappearing messages and chat locks. Now, you can go a step further by disabling chat exports, stopping media from being saved automatically, and blocking the use of your messages with external AI activated, Advanced Chat Privacy applies to everyone in the chat. To enable it, simply open the chat or group, tap the name at the top, and choose the new privacy option. Meta says this setting is designed with sensitive discussions in mind—especially in cases where people may be discussing personal matters but aren't closely goal is to give users more peace of mind, knowing that their content remains within the app and under their control.
India Today
27-04-2025
- India Today
WhatsApp may soon let you react to messages with stickers, know how it will work
WhatsApp introduced emoji reactions in December 2024, which allows users to react to a text using emojis. However, this is apparently not enough. The Meta-owned messaging platform is now working to bring a feature that will let users use stickers as reactions to texts. This is not just an add-on to the existing feature, but also aims to enhance the user-experience. That said, this feature is not new to the Meta-verse. Instagram has already introduced the same feature, but only for iOS. Now, according to the WABeta report, this WhatsApp feature will come to both Android and iOS. advertisementWhatsApp sticker reaction: How will it work?WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature that will allow users to react to messages with stickers, broadening the current set of reaction options. While emojis provide a quick and easy way to respond, they can often fall short when it comes to fully expressing more specific emotions or nuances. With this forthcoming update, WhatsApp intends to give users far greater creative freedom by enabling sticker-based reactions to both messages and media, and here is how it will work. The update will allow users to pick any sticker from the sticker keyboard, including those downloaded from WhatsApp's official Sticker Store. Third-party stickers imported through external apps, as well as previously saved stickers, will also be supported. This new functionality could prove particularly handy in situations where a sticker conveys a specific feeling or tone better than a simple emoji. For instance, responding to a humorous voice note or meme with a tailored animated sticker — such as one showing a character laughing uncontrollably — could add a more personal and entertaining touch to group chats. It's expected that this will significantly enhance the expressiveness and enjoyment of The sticker reaction feature is currently under development and is expected to be introduced in a future WhatsApp Advanced Chat Privacy feature WhatsApp has recently introduced a new advanced chat privacy feature. The feature aims at offering users greater protection by restricting how information can be shared beyond the app itself. Building on the foundation of its existing end-to-end encryption — which already ensures that only the sender and receiver can access the content — this additional privacy layer is designed to give users even more control over their conversations. With this feature activated, users can stop others within a chat or group from exporting conversation histories, automatically saving shared media to their devices, or using messages within AI-driven interactions. Essentially, it creates a more contained environment where sensitive material is less likely to be taken out of context or instance, if someone shares a confidential image or personal message in a group protected by this new setting, other members will be unable to export the chat or save the media automatically. Furthermore, any messages shared in these secure chats will be excluded from reference by Meta's AI tools, providing an extra safeguard against unintended data notes that this feature will be especially valuable in group chats where participants may not know each other particularly well — such as those organised for local community activities or sensitive discussions about health matters. By limiting what can be done with shared content, users can engage more freely and securely, confident that their private communications will remain just that.
