Instagram's Messaging Encryption is Ending. Here's What You Should Know

Friday is the last day for your encrypted Instagram DMs. After May 8, the platform will no longer support the feature, it announced in a help post.

Instagram said in March that it would stop offering end-to-end encryption to its roughly 3 billion users worldwide. At the time, Meta said the feature, which required people on the platform to opt in, had a low adoption rate.

A Meta spokesperson told CNET that nothing has changed in its plans since that announcement and repeated a statement from March: "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."

WhatsApp is also owned by Meta.

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