Meta Adds AI-Powered Summaries To WhatsApp

Meta’s messaging app WhatsApp announced on Wednesday a new feature called Message Summaries, designed to quickly summarize messages in a chat. The feature is powered by Meta AI and helps users get an overview of the private discussions in group chats or conversations before reading the full messages.

According to WhatsApp’s announcement, the new feature keeps users’ conversations private and has begun to roll out in English in the United States. The messaging company, which recently surpassed 3 billion active users worldwide, said it expects to expand the feature to more regions soon.

“Message Summaries uses Private Processing technology, which allows Meta AI to generate a response without Meta or WhatsApp ever seeing your messages or the private summaries,” states the document. “ No one else in the chat can see that you summarized unread messages either.”

Meta emphasized that this is an optional feature, and those who want to test it must activate it through their settings. WhatsApp also noted that through Advanced Chat Privacy, users can choose which conversations they want to include or exclude from AI features.

WhatsApp believes Message Summaries will be especially helpful when users have been offline for several hours—such as after taking a flight without Wi-Fi or when juggling multiple conversations at once.

42 unread messages about the new tennis court location, time change, recap of the last match…now you can catch up with message summaries pic.twitter.com/phr1ku0WPg

— WhatsApp (@WhatsApp) June 25, 2025

The messaging app also invited users—particularly those concerned about privacy—to read its engineering blog on AI tools for WhatsApp, as well as the Technical White Paper and Security Guide published on June 10. This week, the White House banned WhatsApp over data concerns, spreading worry among users.

A few days ago, WhatsApp also introduced paid ads on its platform for the first time, appearing in the Updates section.