Overview
- Meta, which detailed the feature Wednesday, says Inkognito-Chats route AI questions through an isolated environment where messages are not stored and vanish by default.
- In the coming months, the mode will roll out worldwide on WhatsApp and in the Meta AI app, with ‘Nebenchats’ for side-by-side AI help in existing conversations to follow under the same protection.
- An April addition called Advanced Chat Privacy lets users switch off Meta AI in individual private or group threads, while also blocking auto-saving of shared media and the export of the chat history.
- The new tools aim to let people ask sensitive questions in WhatsApp without exposing content to Meta, though anyone in a conversation can still take screenshots or forward messages.
- Independent reporting notes Meta continues to collect metadata such as a user’s name, last-online timestamp, and IP address, so confidentiality depends on more than content controls.