WhatsApp brings AI to help summarise the chats you missed

WhatsApp is again leveraging the power of Meta AI for a new feature. This time, the app will be using artificial intelligence to summarise your personal chats. The aim? To easily keep a track and catch up on the messages you might have missed.

Once enabled, this AI-powered feature will generate a summary of all the unread messages in easy-to-read bulleted points. The company says that this feature uses Meta’s Private Processing technology, which means no third-party can snoop on your messages.

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At the time of filing this story, the AI summary feature is only rolling out in English in the US. It will gradually roll out in other countries and support other languages through the year.

How to use AI to summarise WhatsApp chats

This feature is turned off by default, and will need to be enabled from WhatsApp’s Advanced Chat Privacy setting. This is also where users will get to choose which chats will be accessed by AI to summarise.

When enabled, users will be able to tap on the unread banner in the chat window and get a Meta AI pop-up window with a summary of all those messages. It remains to be seen how accurate these summaries will be post a wider roll out.

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AI Summary joins a long list of Meta AI-powered features being rolled out in WhatsApp. We have seen features ranging from the ability to ask Meta AI a question right from within the chat window to generating images in real-time using AI.