Meta is rolling out a new feature called ‘Writing Help’ on its instant messaging app, WhatsApp. Powered by Meta AI, the feature helps you type and send messages with suggestions in various styles, such as professional, funny, or supportive.
Similar to Microsoft SwiftKey Keyboard’s Copilot-based ‘Tone’ feature, it reads the current texts that users type and uses AI to effectively change the tone of the message. To use Writing Help, you can just start drafting your message in a 1:1 or group chat and tap the new pencil icon.
Meta claims to be using a dedicated processing technique called ‘Private Processing’ to handle users’ messages privately without Meta or WhatsApp reading them.
Users’ messages are fully processed in a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), which makes it possible for people to direct AI to process their requests in a Confidential Virtual Machine (CVM) without storing any messages.
Writing Help is part of the company’s ongoing efforts to integrate Meta AI into its messaging platform while keeping AI privacy in mind. Back in June, WhatsApp introduced AI-powered Message Summaries for unread chats, powered by the same Private Processing technology.
Availability
Writing Help is rolling out in the English language, starting with the United States and several other countries. The company is planning to expand this feature to other languages and countries later this year.