WhatsApp can now translate messages on iOS and Android

WhatsApp offers users’ ability to translate messages into their favorite language, the description -owned company Declare Tuesday.

Now, if users see a message in a different language, they can click on “translate” and click “Translation”. Users can then determine the language they want to translate from or to, and download it for future use. WhatsApp notes that messages translations are available in chats, groups and updates individual channel.

Android users have the option to operate the automatic translation of the entire chat thread in order to see all future received messages in that translated conversation.

The company notes that the translations occur on the user’s device, where WhatsApp cannot see, which means that messages remain encoded.

“With more than 3 billion users in more than 180 countries, we are always working to keep our users close, regardless of where they are in the world,” WatsApp wrote in A. Blog post. “But we understand that the language sometimes may be an obstacle to accomplishing matters or expressing what you really feel. That is why we are excited to bring messages translations to WhatsApp, so that you can communicate more easily through languages.”

This step comes after a few months Apple launched a live translation in messages.

Messages translations are presented to Android and iPhone users starting on Tuesday.

Android users can access translations in six languages: English, Spanish, Indian, Portuguese, Russian and Arabic. IPhone users can do this in Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese.

It is not known when WhatsApp plans to bring messages translations to the web or for Windows and Mac applications.