AI tools make it easier to write emails or reframe the tone of your draft to make them sound more professional. This kind of AI integration is especially useful in messaging apps. WhatsApp is getting its own spin on this with Writing Help, a feature designed to add polish to your messages.
Powered by Meta’s Private Processing technology, WhatsApp’s AI can adjust the tone of your text — making it more professional, supportive, or even funny before you hit send. And if you’re worried about privacy, Meta says Private Processing ensures your messages are improved without anyone ever reading them. You can go through Meta’s white paper to get a full technical rundown of how Private Processing works.
Think of Writing Help as Meta’s take on iPhone’s Writing Tools that works within WhatsApp. For now, Meta is rolling out Writing Help for WhatsApp users in the US and “several other countries” with initial support limited to English.
If available for your account, you’ll see a pencil icon in the text input window when you start drafting your message, be it a 1:1 conversation or a group chat. The company will expand support to more regions and languages later this year.
Most Android phones — especially mid-range models — don’t offer iPhone-like Writing Tools. By baking the feature directly into WhatsApp, Meta makes it accessible to millions of users — irrespective of the phone they use.
Do note that Private Processing is turned off by default in WhatsApp. And unless you enable it, you won’t get access to any of the Meta AI-based features.
More Meta AI-powered features could come to WhatsApp
Writing Help is the second major AI-powered feature that Meta has added to WhatsApp in recent months. It rolled out Message Summaries in June this year, enabling Meta AI to summarize unread messages in a group chat. Both features are available in limited languages and countries for now, but Meta should expand them soon.
Given Meta’s push to integrate Meta AI into WhatsApp, you can expect more AI-powered features to make their way into the messaging app in the future.
