Washington: Meta Platforms on Tuesday said it is introducing a translation feature for its WhatsApp messaging service, aiming to ease cross‑language chats among its more than 3 billion users. "Message translations were designed to protect the privacy of your chats. That's why translations occur on your device where WhatsApp cannot see them," Meta said in a blog. The feature works for personal and group chats, as well as channel updates. Android users can also enable automatic translation for an entire chat thread so future messages are translated by default.