Meta’s announcement comes after years of criticism from child safety groups over 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 encryption in May, and affected messages may need to be downloaded beforehand.

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, ...

Company says it's removing end-to-end encryption because few users opted in to the feature. The state argues encryption makes ...

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

Meta’s rollback spotlights a global clash between user privacy and law enforcement access as governments push back against ...

Meta is killing end-to-end encryption in Instagram DMs. The feature will "no longer be supported after May 8, 2026," the ...

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 encryption for its direct messages starting this May. We break down Meta's reasons for this ...

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