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Meta will soon end Instagram’s end-to-end encrypted chats, citing low adoption and directing users to export affected messages.

Instagram will stop supporting end-to-end encrypted messages on May 8, 2026. Meta advises users to download chats and media ...

Instagram will stop supporting end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) direct messages starting May 8, 2026, meaning private chats will ...

Instagram will stop supporting end-to-end encryption in May, and affected messages may need to be downloaded beforehand.

End-to-end encryption is a way of sending messages to the intended recipients without anyone else, including tech companies, ...

Meta will end Instagram E2EE chats May 8, 2026, reversing a 2021 privacy test and reigniting debate over encrypted messaging oversight.

Instagram users who rely on the platform’s end-to-end encrypted messaging feature will soon see a change. The company has confirmed that the optional privacy feature for direct messages (DMs) will be ...

Pulling the plug on privacy?

Cryptography is a funny thing. Supposedly, if you do the right kind of maths to a message, you can send it off to somebody ...