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

In a shocking update, Instagram is set to remove end-to-end encryption, marking a major turnaround from its prior push to ...

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

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 is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that ‘very few’ people used — The Verge (@verge) March 13, 2026 Meta ...

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

Pulling the plug on privacy?

Meta will end Instagram E2EE chats May 8, 2026, reversing a 2021 privacy test and reigniting debate over encrypted messaging ...

Paytinel’s analysis of how encryption keeps payment data safe when it's sent and stored, lowers fraud risks, helps confirm identities, and makes payment systems more secure.

End-to-end encryption is known for keeping messages exclusively accessible by the sender and the receiver and vice versa. The ...

Search Guard discusses application-level Encryption at Rest for Elasticsearch, including Lucene files, snapshots, and ...

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