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

Instagram's message encryption will soon end.

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

The social media giant says that end-to-end encryption would make users less safe.

Instagram is dropping end-to-end encrypted messages from its direct messages, just over a year after introducing the feature.

A Meta spokesperson told PCMag it opted to remove the feature, which has proved controversial in the past, because ‘very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs.’ ...

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

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Meta’s photo-sharing platform Instagram will stop supporting end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8, according to an update on its support page. The change requires users who ...

Unlike WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, where E2E encryption is either the default or automatically applied to certain message types, Instagram's deployment had always been partial and ...

Instagram to end support for end-to-end encryption for DMs. Know what it means for users, and it affects their privacy at large.