Overview
- WhatsApp introduced the incognito chat for Meta AI on Wednesday, promising private conversations that are end-to-end encrypted, temporary, and not saved.
- Meta says messages run inside a locked-down hardware environment that the company cannot access, and they disappear by default.
- The feature is rolling out on Android, iOS, and the Meta AI website, with availability already appearing for users in Argentina as a gradual global launch begins.
- Incognito sessions are limited to text for now, so image generation and other AI tools do not work in this mode.
- Meta plans a protected parallel chat in the coming months to let people ask Meta AI for help inside existing threads, a privacy push that reporters warn could remove chat records that have aided investigations as experts also question Meta’s recent move to disable Instagram DM encryption.