"Very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs, so we're removing this option from Instagram in the coming months. Anyone who wants to keep messaging with end-to-end encryption can easily do that on WhatsApp."
"Meta is killing end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs. The feature will "no longer be supported after May 8, 2026," the company wrote in an update on its support page. Unlike WhatsApp, Meta never made encryption available to all Instagram users and it was never a default setting."
"In 2019, Mark Zuckerberg outlined a "privacy-focused" revamp of the company's apps, saying at the time that "implementing end-to-end encryption for all private communications is the right thing to do." In 2021, the company's head of safety said that Meta was delaying its encryption work until 2023 in order to create stronger safety features."
Meta announced it will remove end-to-end encryption from Instagram Direct Messages by May 8, 2026. The feature was never default and only available to users in select regions on a per-chat opt-in basis. A Meta spokesperson attributed the removal to minimal adoption, stating very few users enabled encrypted messaging. The company directs users seeking encryption to WhatsApp instead. This decision contrasts with Meta's Messenger platform, which is implementing end-to-end encryption as a default setting. Meta's encryption approach has evolved significantly since 2016, following Mark Zuckerberg's 2019 commitment to privacy-focused communications, though implementation has faced delays and criticism from law enforcement regarding child safety concerns.
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