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

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 encryption in May, and affected messages may need to be downloaded beforehand.

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 ...

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

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

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

Instagram's message encryption will soon end.