Instagram is making a major shift starting May 8, 2026. The platform will officially pull the plug on end-to-end encryption ...

Bad news for anyone sliding into the DM’s—Instagram will no longer support encrypted messaging.

Meta claimed for years that it was technically challenging to implement end-to-end encryption across Facebook Messenger and ...

Meta blamed users for not opting into the privacy-protecting feature. Experts fear the move could be the first major domino ...

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

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

Meta is set to discontinue its end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages, which creates global security issues ...

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