WhatsApp has officially announced a new feature called Writing Help. The feature is
designed to assist users in drafting better messages while keeping their privacy intact. The tool uses AI to suggest different styles, such as professional, funny, or supportive. So, users can fine-tune their tone before hitting send.
To access Writing Help, users simply need to start writing a message in a 1:1 or group chat and tap on the new pencil icon. From there, WhatsApp will offer AI-powered suggestions that users can either use as is or continue editing.
The most important part of this update is how WhatsApp ensures privacy. Writing Help runs on Meta’s Private Processing technology. This means neither WhatsApp nor Meta has access to your messages or the AI’s rewrites. To back this up, WhatsApp has published technical details through its engineering blog and white paper, alongside independent audits from NCC Group and Trail of Bits to confirm the robustness of its privacy-preserving system.
WhatsApp also highlighted that this feature is optional and turned off by default, giving users full control over whether they want to use it.
For now, Writing Help is rolling out in English to users in the United States and a few other countries. WhatsApp says it plans to expand the feature to more languages and regions later this year.
