Overview

• The feature begins a gradual release today and works in one-on-one chats, groups, and Channel updates.
• Users activate it by long-pressing a message to tap Translate, then choosing languages and optionally downloading them for future use.
• Android supports six languages at launch—English, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, and Arabic—with an option to auto-translate entire chat threads.
• iPhone offers translation into more than 19 languages at launch, including Arabic, English, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.
• WhatsApp plans to add more languages over time, and there is no timeline yet for web or desktop availability.