WhatsApp adds built-in text translations on iPhone and Android

Android users tin acceptable full chat threads to automatically construe incoming messages.

A caller translation diagnostic for WhatsApp connected iPhone and Android that translates messages into your preferred connection is rolling retired “gradually,” starting today successful 1:1 chats, groups, and Channel update messages. It tin beryllium activated by long-pressing down connected messages and tapping the “Translate” enactment to take the connection you privation the connection to beryllium translated from oregon to.

Support for English, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, and Arabic volition initially beryllium disposable for Android users, portion iPhone users tin construe messages into more than 19 languages astatine launch. Android users tin besides alteration automatic translation for full chat threads to use the diagnostic to each incoming messages.

It’s nary real-time translation successful your ears, successful front of your eyes, oregon on your screen, and different messaging apps person besides offered akin features (Google utilized WhatsApp to demonstrate “Tap to translate” connected Android astir a decennary ago). But for WhatsApp’s billions of users, it could marque conversations easier arsenic they determination passim the world. WhatsApp says it plans to grow translation enactment for further languages successful the future.