Silently killing E2E encryption, because no one was using something they didn’t enable by default and didn’t told it was available. It’s a good time to think about moving to something safer and more private, like Signal.

Meta is killing end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs soon https://9to5google.com/2026/03/13/meta-is-killing-end-to-end-encryption-for-instagram-dms-soon/

Meta is killing end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs soon

Meta has confirmed that, soon, it will remove support for end-to-end encryption for Instagram DMs. Confirmed on a support page,...

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@t3mujin I hadn't really thought of Instagram as a chat app, and Signal doesn't offer the full range of features that Instagram does either.

Because of that, I wouldn't view or recommend Signal as an alternative to Instagram.