WhatsApp, owned by Meta, rolled out Message Summaries on Wednesday. The feature leverages Meta AI to generate private summaries of unread messages, offering a brief glimpse into chat activity before users read further.
How It Works
Message Summaries is built on Meta’s Private Processing technology — which Meta introduced earlier this year to enable secure AI tools on WhatsApp.
It ensures that both your messages and the summaries remain inaccessible to Meta and WhatsApp. The feature also works silently, so other chat members won’t know you’ve used it, preserving your privacy throughout.
User Control and Privacy
In its announcement, the company emphasized that it puts control in your hands — Message Summaries is optional and disabled by default. You can choose to enable it and use Advanced Chat Privacy settings to decide which chats can share data for AI features.
WhatsApp’s approach to AI prioritizes user privacy by ensuring features like message summarization are optional, transparent, and give users full control — especially for sensitive chats, which can be excluded from AI processing through Advanced Chat Privacy.
Availability
As of now, Meta is rolling out its Message Summaries feature in English for U.S. users, with a global expansion to more languages and countries expected later this year.
