{"id":40341,"date":"2025-09-24T08:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/40341\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:56:08","slug":"meta-adds-real-time-language-translation-to-whatsapp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/40341\/","title":{"rendered":"Meta adds real-time language translation to WhatsApp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n         Published on<br \/>\n            24\/09\/2025 &#8211; 10:39 GMT+2\n            <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Meta is adding real-time language translation to its popular messaging app WhatsApp, in a bid to make communication easier among its billions of users worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp translations will initially be available in 19 languages on iPhone and six languages on Android, with additional languages to follow, according to Meta, which also owns Facebook and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Users who want to translate a WhatsApp message will be able to long-press the text, tap Translate, and select a language \u2013 similar to the language translations already available in Apple\u2019s iMessage.<\/p>\n<p>Android users will also be able to turn on automatic translations for an entire WhatsApp conversation. <\/p>\n<p>We hope this feature helps break down language barriers and allows users to connect more deeply,\u201d Meta said in a blog post announcing the change.<\/p>\n<p>For Android users, translations will initially be available for English, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, and Arabic.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, iPhone users will have access to those six languages plus Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.<\/p>\n<p>The translations will occur directly on users\u2019 devices \u201cto protect the privacy of [their] chats,\u201d Meta said.<\/p>\n<p>The messaging app uses end-to-end encryption, and Meta has said it does not read or listen to personal messages.<\/p>\n<p>WhatsApp has more than three billion users in over 180 countries, Meta said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on 24\/09\/2025 &#8211; 10:39 GMT+2 ADVERTISEMENT Meta is adding real-time language translation to its popular messaging app&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[19226,30641,61,60,30642,30643,1226,80,15300],"class_list":["post-40341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-big-tech","tag-end-to-end-encryption","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-languages","tag-machine-translation","tag-meta","tag-technology","tag-whatsapp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}