The company says the feature wasn't popular with users.

Were your DMs ever encrypted?

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

Instagram direct messages are protected by end-to-end encryption. But in the next few weeks, all of that changes.

Meta has announced it will discontinue end-to-end encrypted direct messages on Instagram, a feature that ensures only ...

End-to-end encryption is a communications process that ensures that only the sender and recipient can access the contents of a message. The broader push for encryption within Meta dates back to 2016, ...

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

Popular social media app, Instagram said that it will end support for end-to-end encryption for direct messaging or DMs after May 8, 2026. In an update in Help Center page, the app said, “End-to-end ...

Google has introduced a new end-to-end encryption (E2EE) feature in Gmail, enabling organizations to send encrypted emails that even Google cannot read to other Gmail users. Later this year, the ...

While social media platforms have a habit of copying each other, there’s one area where TikTok is forging its own path. TikTok doesn’t use end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for direct messages, the BBC ...