New Delhi, March 15 -- Meta has officially announced that it is ending end-to-end encryption on Instagram starting from 8 May, 2026. While the company has been promoting the essential privacy feature for years, it now says that the feature is being removed because very few users were actually opting for it.

"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." Meta said in a statement to Hacker News.

In a support page, the company says that affected users will see instructions on how to download and keep any media or messages they want to keep.

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