M Suggestions as a whole launched in April 2017, and are now available in 11 countries and five languages.Īt its F8 developer conference last month, Facebook previewed an upcoming redesign of Messenger, including a simplified user interface, a dark mode, and customizable chat bubbles.

Facebook plans to add other languages and countries in the future.įacebook first launched chat translation via M for users of its Marketplace service in the United States in early May. You can opt-out of the feature at any time via the M Settings menu in Messenger, accessible by tapping your profile picture in the top-left corner of the app.Īt launch, M can translate from English to Spanish, and vice versa. 'This is a meaningful milestone for M Suggestions and will enable people to connect with people they would not be able to communicate with otherwise in a way that is seamless and natural,' a Messenger spokesperson said.Īuto-translation is enabled on a per-conversation basis, and all messages are shown in both the original language and translated version. Upon doing so, all future messages received that are not in your default language will be automatically translated. When you tap on the suggestion, you will be asked to enable auto-translation. When you receive a message in a language that is different from your default language in Messenger, Facebook's artificial intelligence assistant M will automatically offer a suggestion to translate the message. Facebook today announced it is expanding chat translation within Messenger to all users in the United States and Mexico.

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