The feature will provide a summary button within chats, groups, and channels for quick message overviews.
Message processing will use Meta's Private Processing architecture, ensuring content remains confidential.
It will not be available in chats with Advanced Chat Privacy enabled.
WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature that will allow users to privately summarise the messages in chats, groups, and channels. The new feature aims to offer a quick catch-up on the unread messages without scrolling through the lengthy conversations. According to a WaBetaInfo report, the message summarisation feature was previously announced for Android and is currently being developed for iOS. It is currently available with the latest WhatsApp beta for iOS 25.15.10.73 update.
This feature, as per the reports, will be powered by Meta AI and processed via Meta’s Private Processing infrastructure. It will offer users accurate overviews of new messages in any type of conversation. The users can access the feature via a dedicated summary button within the chat interface, which appears whenever there are unread messages.
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As per the report, Meta has designed the feature with privacy at its core, leveraging secure computation methods and end-to-end encryption, which means it may not raise privacy concerns.
The message summarisation can be helpful to the users, especially useful for users who are a part of active group chats or busy channels. This will offer a quick way to catch up without manually scrolling through the big conversations.
However, WhatsApp has not confirmed the development, rollout timeline, and other details about the feature at the moment. But the report stated that the feature will not work with Advanced Chat Privacy enabled, respecting the choice of users who prefer not to use AI-powered features.
Since the feature is already in beta, it could make its debut with the upcoming stable updates within the coming weeks. Till then, stay tuned with Digit to know about the interesting features that are in the pipeline.
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