WhatsApp has become the communication tool par excellence. The vast majority of people have this application installed on their smartphone. Now, what if they speak to you in another language? Nothing happens because you can translate whatsapp messages quickly and easily.
exist several methods to be able to have a conversation in another language via WhatsApp and without dying in the attempt. And it is that you will not need to have complex applications installed on your iPhone, although it is true that the easiest method is to install a new virtual keyboard that speeds up conversations in another language. But, we are going to tell you the different methods to translate WhatsApp messages from iPhone.
We are not going to deceive you: unfortunately, in whatsapp we will not be able to resort to many options to be able to translate whatsapp messages when we are in conversation. Moreover, we can use two applications to perform the translation without leaving the instant messaging service. The third option will have to resort to the typical “Copy and Paste”. But let’s see what options we have.
Translate WhatsApp messages using virtual Google keyboard
Normally, this keyboard is installed on mobile devices that use Android, whether they are a smartphone or a tablet. Now, in the case of the Apple phone, things are changing. Although we turn to the App Store, we will have solved it. All you have to do is search for “Gboard” and install the app.
How to Use Gboard to Translate WhatsApp Messages on iPhone
Once installed on your terminal, you must go to the “Settings” of the phone, drag the menu to the last part and find the section that refers to this application. As you enter, look in the last part for the subsection that says ‘Keyboard‘. Enter and Activate the two options presented to you: ‘Gboard’ and ‘Allow full access’.
Now you will have the keyboard ready to use whenever you want and in any application, be it a social network, a browser, from the messaging manager you use and, of course, from WhatsApp. Now, when iPhone virtual keyboard launches, you will notice that something new has been added. In effect, it’s a button with the big “G” for Google. By pressing it, you will discover a new menu in which, among other things, the Google translator will appear.
To use and translate all messages in WhatsApp, you must write messages directly in the activated box –and which you will be able to see in the screenshots that we attach to this article–, having first to indicate the language into which it must be translated and, if you prefer, also the original language.
Once you are done writing what you need to say on WhatsApp, press the virtual key on the keyboard that says ‘Translate’. You will see that the text will have been translated directly by placing it in the box to send via the instant messaging application.
Now, if what you need is to translate the message of your interlocutor, you must mark the received message first, bring up the Gboard keyboard and paste your message in the box that says “Type or paste text”. After pasting the message, the translation will automatically appear and you can continue the conversation without leaving the WhatsApp application.
But, as we have already mentioned, having this keyboard active at all times, you can use it wherever you want and from any application to be able to have much smoother conversations, even if the language used is not your native language.
Translate now – a virtual keyboard that also allows you to directly translate WhatsApp messages
translate now It is an application that you can find in the App Store. It works very similar to Gboard, although we’re not just talking about a virtual keyboard, but it’s a powerful translation tool to use anytime, either through an image or as a chat tool.
But what really matters to us is that Translate Now you can translate WhatsApp messages directly from the application and without using “copy and paste”. In other words, we can write directly in the language we choose. For that, proceed as following :
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- download app
- Go to the “settings” of the iPhone and search for the “Translate now” application among all those installed
- Inside, in the ‘Keyboard’ section, you need to activate and authorize the options ‘Translate now’ and ‘Allow full access’
- You will now have a new active keyboard in your favorite apps. And, of course, WhatsApp will be one of them.
Using “Translate Now” is very similar to “Gboard”. We will have to activate the new virtual keyboard when we go to write in WhatsApp. Likewise, we need to configure the input language and the output language. And the app will automatically translate your texts to hold conversations in 110 different languages.
Translate WhatsApp Messages Using Native iPhone Translator
If you have explored a bit the apps you have installed on your iPhone, you will have noticed that one of them is a translator. Now we want to tell you that it’s a bit more complicated and less nimble than using the previous app. Moreover, we could tell you that the iPhone Translator is a good option for having conversations, face to face.
However, if you want to use this native iOS app on WhatsApp, you will need to copy and paste, as if it were a conventional translator. Now, if it’s not about having a conversation and what you want is only to send a single reply in another language, this can also be a solution compared to Gboard, the previous option that we offered. Of course, in this case, you will have to go and jump between applications.
Use Translator for face-to-face conversation
But, as we mentioned earlier, If the conversation takes place outside of WhatsApp and face to face, this iPhone translator is a very good solution, because you won’t need two terminals. This is done like this:
- Enter the Translator application
- Click on the optionConversation‘ which you will find at the bottom of the screen
- Then, on each side of the virtual microphone, you will have two small icons available: the one on the right side with three dots allows you to mark the options to detect language, automatic translation and reproduce translations. The icon on the left side –which is the one we are interested in–, when we press on it we will have two options to place the layout on the screen: parallel or expensive to expensive. Pressing on the latter, you will see that the screen is divided in two and places each part of it focused on each of the interlocutors of the conversation
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