Huawei’s Celia assistant can now send messages and start voice or video calls in WeChat through an agent-to-agent integration, although group chats and several features remain unsupported.
WeChat’s native HarmonyOS app has gained voice-controlled support for Huawei’s Celia assistant, allowing users to send messages and place voice or video calls to contacts through agent-to-agent integration, according to IT Home. The feature appears in WeChat version 8.0.22 for HarmonyOS and requires Celia version 11.7.8.303 or later, marking another step in Huawei’s effort to make its system assistant more useful inside third-party apps.
The experience is designed for hands-free tasks. Users can wake Celia and ask it to send a WeChat message to a named contact, or start a call without opening the app manually. If they dictate the content of a text message in the same command, Celia can pass that through as part of the request. When there is ambiguity, such as two contacts with the same name, the assistant asks for clarification before acting.
The current scope remains limited. IT Home says the integration works only with individual friends, not group chats or group calls. It also does not support stickers or Huawei’s cloned-account function. The feature is aimed at situations where touching a phone is inconvenient, including driving, cooking, cleaning, carrying a child or exercising, as well as at older users and people with limited vision who may find voice control easier to use.
Under the A2A model, the phone maker’s assistant sends a request to WeChat through an interface the app itself exposes and controls, rather than taking over the screen directly. That keeps chat functions inside WeChat while still letting Huawei’s system assistant trigger them. The same basic approach has already been reported on other Chinese handset brands, with Honor said to have shipped a comparable capability first on selected models. Huawei’s own rollout now brings that pattern to its HarmonyOS ecosystem.
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