With its new Private Processing function, WhatsApp recently started testing AI-powered message summaries for talks.
According to a feature tracker, WhatsApp is developing a feature that will let you scan documents on your Android smartphone. WhatsApp for iOS already has this feature, which lets you scan documents without ever leaving the messaging app and transmit them as media attachments to other users or to yourself. A new AI feature that WhatsApp started testing last week lets select Android beta testers view AI-powered message summaries in chats.
WhatsApp appears to be working on a feature for Android handsets that would allow users to scan documents, over six months after the feature was introduced for iOS users. After updating to WhatsApp beta for Android 2.25.18.29, feature tracker WABetaInfo noticed the same Scan Document feature. This functionality is still being developed, though, and has not yet been made available on the beta channel.
The feature tracker indicates that when choosing the Documents attachment option on WhatsApp, a new Scan document tool will ultimately be added. This feature will show up under the Browse documents and Choose from gallery options.
The feature is anticipated to activate the camera when the Scan document button is tapped, based on what we have observed on WhatsApp for iOS. When the app recognizes a paper, users have the option to either manually take pictures or allow it to do so automatically.
WhatsApp will create a PDF that you may send to another user or forward to yourself after scanning every page in the document. Additionally, you can share the PDF with another app and save it to the phone’s local storage.
Before WhatsApp adds its document scanner capability to your phone, you may also scan documents using the Google Drive app, which comes preinstalled on the majority of Android smartphones. Before making its way to the stable channel, the feature to scan documents will eventually be made available to WhatsApp beta testers for Android.
A new AI-powered chat function that summarizes messages was made available to beta testers earlier this month. According to the feature tracker, if you have installed WhatsApp beta for Android 2.25.18.18 or a later beta version, you may also be able to access a new Summarise with Meta AI button inside chats that contain a specific, undefined number of new messages.
To preserve user privacy, this new message summarisation feature apparently makes a request to Meta’s Private Processing system. AI-powered message summary prompts won’t appear for a chat, though, if the user has chosen Advanced Chat Protection for that specific chat.
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