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

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

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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.

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

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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 ...