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WhatsApp Rolls Out Message Translation on iOS in 19 Languages

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WhatsApp has announced the rollout of its new translation feature, allowing users to translate messages into their preferred language directly within the app. The feature is launching gradually across iPhone and Android devices for one-on-one chats, group conversations, and Channel updates.

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To translate a message, simply long-press on the text and tap the "Translate" option. Users can then select both the source and target languages, with the ability to download language packs for future use. WhatsApp says that all translations occur locally on the user's device, in line with the app's end-to-end encryption that ensures even parent company Meta can't see message content.

WhatsApp users on iPhone get translation support for over 19 languages, including Dutch, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

Android users can access translation in six languages, but they do get an additional convenience feature: automatic translation for entire chat threads. Once enabled, all incoming messages in a conversation are automatically translated without requiring manual activation for each message.

The rollout follows Apple's introduction of Live Translation for Messages as part of its iOS 26 and macOS Tahoe launch earlier this month. WhatsApp plans to expand language support in future updates, but it didn't say when the feature will come to WhatsApp for web or desktop.

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It’s kind of funny that even WhatsApp fully supports Polish, yet Apple still ignores it in many of its services. It almost feels like Apple has something against Central and Eastern Europe, while smaller platforms provide full support without any problem
 
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rybak17 said:
It’s kind of funny that even WhatsApp fully supports Polish, yet Apple still ignores it in many of its services. It almost feels like Apple has something against Central and Eastern Europe, while smaller platforms provide full support without any problem
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But Apple does support translation to and from Polish, just check out the Tłumacz app.

It does not support Apple Intelligence-related features, like live translation in Messages, but that has more to do with the EU slowly turning into… well, something it was not really supposed to be.
 
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I wish they let us have multiple numbers already. I think the Android versions lets people have 2 on the same app.
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Agreed. The android version has offered this feature for several years. Petty resentments by Zuckerberg directed at Apple would seem to be the real reason it has not emerged from beta since it is more than a year since it became known it was in beta. If Zuckerberg wanted it done, it would be completed. He would have set a deadline / goal and the engineers would have uncovered and resolved any issues preventing full release.
 
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