Tech Desk 
Jun 26, 2025
WhatsApp has officially launched a new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered feature, which can easily summarise messages on the platform, providing an enhanced experience.
Meta-owned instant messaging platform revealed on Wednesday, June 26, 2025, that dubbed message summaries leverage Meta AI to help users catch up on unread texts.
According to the company, the feature uses a new technology called Private Processing, which is claimed to keep the message from being read by anyone else in the chat, including Meta.
WhatsApp launches message summaries feature
In a blog post, WhatsApp detailed its new message summaries feature, which is available in individual and group chats, and it is said to be completely optional and is turned off by default.
Message summaries are generated by Meta AI in a bulleted list view when tapping the Unread Messages icon in a chat.
“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. No one else in the chat can see that you summarised unread messages either,” the company said in a blog post.
Message summaries on WhatsApp are initially rolling out to users in the US in English, while they will be expanded to more languages and regions later this year.
The new AI-powered features are available under a new setting that can be accessed via Settings > Chats > Private Processing, which lets you turn on or off individual functions.
