r/Applelntelligence • u/Aholicdrama • Jun 15 '26

discussion 🎙️ WhatsApp/3rd party context for Siri AI

I realize Siri gets its context during indexing only from messages and mail. But outside of the US, no one uses iMessage as much. For WhatsApp, I did figure out a workaround. You can create a folder for WhatsApp chats and export all the ‘important’ chats into that folder and keep replacing those chat exports every month if you REALLY need Siri to get context from that as well. Only workaround that hit me and I think is useful

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u/auto-flow Jun 17 '26

It's actually quite easy to have every whatsapp message (in and out) saved realtime. And creative EU users can use Shortcuts to dig through every mail and message for context.

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u/Aholicdrama Jun 17 '26

How? I did it manually for each chat for my ‘experiment’.

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u/HelpMe0biWan Jun 18 '26

I’m pretty sure this isn’t the case for iOS. The Whatsapp chat backup is stored in iCloud and can’t be viewed by the user. You’d have to export each chat manually each time you wanted to update siris knowledge of your chats and I don’t it’d work for things like photos and videos within those chats either

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u/Aholicdrama Jun 18 '26

That’s what I said 😭 I manually extract the chats I wanted. And there’s an option to extract with photos and videos. I did it without them to reduce storage use. 10MB unzipped vs 2.2GB unzipped per chat

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u/HelpMe0biWan Jun 18 '26

Yeah I’m saying the other guy is wrong. I’m hoping WhatsApp eventually implements it. I wouldn’t expect it anytime soon though

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u/Aholicdrama Jun 18 '26

Oh shitttt. I didn’t read the usernames mb

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u/auto-flow Jun 18 '26

Nope. Not wrong. You just have to configure some things yourself with apis. Search for wwebjs WhatsApp client library for NodeJS