Enhance Your WhatsApp Messaging with Artificial Intelligence: Learn the Methods Here
WhatsApp, the popular messaging app, is testing a new AI-powered feature called Writing Help. This innovative tool is designed to assist users in refining their messages, offering AI-generated suggestions to improve tone, clarity, structure, and grammar before sending [1][2][3][5].
The feature is currently under development and is available in a beta version on both iPhone and Android devices. It was first introduced in the WhatsApp beta for iPhone around mid-August 2025, and is also available in the latest updates for Android as of August 2025 [1][2][3][5].
How Does Writing Help Work?
When typing in the chat input field, a pen icon replaces the sticker icon, indicating the AI assistant is available. Tapping this icon triggers the AI to present at least three alternative phrasings based on one of five selectable tones: Rephrase, Professional, Funny, Supportive, or Proofread [1][3][4][5]. Users may choose to keep their original message or adopt any of the AI-suggested alternatives. Recipients are not notified if a message was AI-assisted [1][3][4][5].
Privacy and Security
Writing Help uses Meta’s Private Processing system, ensuring that messages are encrypted and processed anonymously. No original text, AI suggestions, or related data are stored or linked to user identity. Only the draft typed in the chat input is processed; conversation history is excluded [1][3][4]. The assistant is switched off by default and must be enabled manually by users [1][3][4].
Meta positions Writing Help as a privacy-sensitive tool designed to enhance message quality without compromising chat security [1][3][4].
Key Features and Details
- Release Date: Beta released mid-August 2025 on iPhone (TestFlight) and Android (beta v2.25.23.7); no official wide launch date announced.
- Functionality: AI writing assistant offers multiple message refinement suggestions based on tone, structure, clarity, and grammar.
- Interaction: Pen icon replaces sticker icon; tap to receive alternative phrasings.
- Tones Offered: Rephrase, Professional, Funny, Supportive, Proofread.
- Privacy & Security: Uses Meta’s Private Processing for encrypted, anonymous AI processing; no data storage or linkage to user identity.
- User Control: Disabled by default; must be enabled manually.
- Notification: Recipients do not see any indication that AI assisted the message.
This feature is designed to simplify composing polished and appropriately toned messages while maintaining strong privacy protections [1][3][4][5]. Writing Help ensures privacy at all stages, as no original content is stored. WhatsApp or Meta does not get to access the messages and AI-generated responses in Writing Help. The messages processed by the AI in Writing Help will never be modified automatically.
Feedback on the AI suggestions is optional and is sent anonymously in Writing Help. The AI in Writing Help will only process the specific messages selected by the user and will not have access to broader conversations. When a user chooses to use Writing Help, only the selected message is sent to the Private Processing infrastructure.
The rollout of Writing Help globally to users is expected in the coming weeks with a future update.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2025/8/12/21313970/whatsapp-ai-writing-help-beta-test-android [2] https://www.wired.com/story/whatsapp-ai-writing-help-feature-beta-test/ [3] https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/12/whatsapp-ai-writing-help-feature-beta-test/ [4] https://www.engadget.com/whatsapp-ai-writing-help-feature-beta-test-081225/ [5] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/08/12/whatsapp-ai-writing-help-feature-beta-test
Technology continues to evolve, as WhatsApp's AI-powered feature, Writing Help, provides artificial-intelligence-generated suggestions to improve message tone, clarity, structure, and grammar before sending [1][2][3][5]. This feature, currently in beta, uses Meta’s Private Processing system to ensure privacy and security [1][3][4].
