By Song Jianan | Tech Reporter
On June 8, we learned that WeChat has started rolling out a long-requested Moments search feature to a select group of iOS and Android users. According to customer support reps at Tencent, you can now tap through to “Me” > “Moments.” If you spot a magnifying glass icon in the top-right corner, go ahead and give it a click—it’s your new gateway to instantly searching through your past posts using keywords.
The best part? The search bar lives right on the main Moments feed. You won’t be bounced to some clunky external page or menu. Just flip back from scrolling through updates, type in what you’re looking for, and hit search. It’s fast, intuitive, and keeps the whole experience seamless.
Tencent’s support team confirms this is part of a staggered rollout across recent app updates. Right now, the beta testing phase is still rolling out to both iOS and Android devices. If your app isn’t showing the feature yet, you’re likely running an older version. Head over to your app store, update WeChat to iOS 8.0.71 or its Android equivalent, and you should be good to go. The team will keep expanding access over the coming weeks as they fine-tune everything behind the scenes.
Curious about what you can actually look up? Customer support told us the tool lets you dig through both your own posts and those shared by your friends. Beyond just typing a keyword into the search bar, you can also narrow things down by filtering for specific contacts or date ranges. So whether you’re hunting for a recipe you saved months ago or tracking down a photo from a trip, the filters have got you covered.
Honestly, WeChat users have been begging for this feature for years. Back when Moments first launched way back in 2015, community forums were already buzzing with pleas to add keyword search so people could finally track down old travel pics, random life updates, or important milestones. As the WeChat ecosystem has grown, Moments has basically become everyone’s digital diary. But let’s be real—the more stuff you post, the harder it gets to dig up anything specific. Most of us have resorted to endless scrolling and guessing dates, joking that hunting down a three-year-old post feels tougher than flipping through a dusty physical photo album. With this update finally rolling out, Tencent is quietly fixing one of the app’s most frequently criticized gaps.
In other big news today, WeChat is officially opening up its AI toolkit to developers. According to WeChat’s official education account, devs just need to head over to the Mini Program management console, find the “AI Capabilities” section, and toggle on the permission to connect to WeChat’s AI backbone. The platform is rolling out two hands-off options depending on your team’s size and technical setup. The “Auto Mode” simply asks for read-access to your Mini Program’s source code during review, meaning zero extra coding work on your end. WeChat’s system will scan your pages and let its AI take the wheel directly. If you prefer keeping full control, “Dev Mode” lets you build custom integrations tailored to your specific product logic. Once your build passes the platform’s review standards, it’ll be fully ready for AI-driven interactions.
That said, WeChat notes this AI integration is still in early internal testing, so everyday users won’t get to play with it just yet.
And it’s not just personal Moments getting a boost. Tencent Work (WeCom) just dropped a brand-new “Meeting Note Taker” feature in its latest release. Perfect for in-person stand-ups or project brainstorming, you can fire it up straight from your phone with a single tap. Powered by advanced voice recognition, it does more than just transcribe—it identifies who’s speaking by matching voices against your company directory. All that audio instantly turns into clean, structured meeting notes. Even better, the built-in AI automatically pulls out key action items and drafts a proper meeting summary, then routes tasks directly to the right team members.
Over on the productivity front, Tencent Yuanbao made waves last month by adding WeChat chat history summarization. Here’s how it works: jump into WeChat, highlight the conversation threads you want to digest, hit “Share to Other Apps,” and pick Yuanbao from the list. The entire chat dumps straight into Yuanbao’s chat window, where its AI instantly breaks it down, highlights the essentials, and serves up a clear analysis.
WeChat’s been packing its recent updates with serious quality-of-life improvements, especially around AI tools, cross-device file sharing, and desktop usability. On top of the Yuanbao chat summaries, the WeChat Keyboard just shipped a “Handoff” feature that lets you sling photos, videos, and docs straight between phones and computers running iOS, Android, Windows, or macOS. No Wi-Fi sync required—it’s a direct peer-to-peer transfer that just works.
Desktop users aren’t being left behind either. WeChat’s Windows and Mac clients now feature a scroll-capture tool. Take a screenshot, hit the “Scroll Capture” button, roll your mouse wheel, and boom—you’ve got a perfectly stitched long screenshot that covers everything below the fold, visible or not. They’ve also added native voice messaging on desktop. Just tap the mic icon in the bottom corner of the chat box, or hold down the Alt key, and start talking.
Now, for the rumors everyone’s been asking about: WeChat Read Receipts and Profile Visitors are officially off the table. Tencent’s PR director Zhang Jun put the rumor mill to rest recently, drawing a hard line in the sand by saying these two features are “permanently locked” and will never ship. As for the briefly tested status viewer count display? Yeah, that got pulled after a short-lived beta run, too.
Of course, with an eye-popping combined monthly active user base of 1.418 billion across WeChat and WeChat Global as of Q4 2025, Tencent knows the stakes. Every single update has to walk a tightrope between mass appeal, ironclad privacy, and smooth user experience. When you’re holding the digital lives of nearly a billion people, you don’t mess with the core social rules unless you absolutely have to.
