WhatsApp Launches AI Writing Assistant to Help Users Edit and Rewrite Messages
WhatsApp unveiled a new AI-powered Writing Help feature on August 27, allowing users to enhance, rewrite, or adjust the tone of their messages. This functionality helps users improve grammar, refine phrasing, and modify tone before sending communications.
The feature utilizes Meta’s Private Processing technology, ensuring AI-generated suggestions are provided without Meta or WhatsApp accessing original messages or proposed changes. This maintains message privacy even when users engage the new capability. The system processes message requests through encrypted, anonymous channels that cannot be traced to specific users or origins.
Writing Help provides AI-generated suggestions to reframe communications in various styles including professional, humorous, supportive, and additional formats. WhatsApp demonstrated the feature through a product example showing an original message: “Please don’t leave dirty socks on the sofa.”
The AI then provides “funny” alternatives like “Breaking news: Socks found chilling on the couch” and “Please don’t turn the sofa into a sock graveyard.” Move them, sock ninja, since the laundry basket is that way! This launch suggests WhatsApp’s intention for users to utilize its integrated technology instead of external tools like ChatGPT.
According to WhatsApp, users activate the feature by tapping a new pencil icon that appears during message composition. WhatsApp emphasizes that it doesn’t store information or related content, and AI suggestions only appear when users choose to engage Writing Help. When activated, the interface displays a small pen icon replacing the sticker icon after users type several words of their intended message.
WhatsApp stresses that Writing Help remains optional and disabled by default. The feature operates exclusively on selected messages rather than entire conversations, and never sends AI-generated content without explicit user approval.
