{"id":40376,"date":"2026-03-13T20:33:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/instagram-is-getting-rid-of-end-to-end-encrypted-dms-that-very-few-people-used\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T20:33:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T20:33:23","slug":"instagram-is-getting-rid-of-end-to-end-encrypted-dms-that-very-few-people-used","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/instagram-is-getting-rid-of-end-to-end-encrypted-dms-that-very-few-people-used\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram is getting rid of end-to-end encrypted DMs that \u2018very few\u2019 people used"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8th. In a statement to <em>The Verge<\/em>, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby Luce says the platform is discontinuing the feature because \u201cvery few people\u201d were using E2EE in their DMs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Instagram has begun notifying impacted users about the change inside its app, and has also <a href=\"https:\/\/help.instagram.com\/491565145294150\/?helpref=uf_share\">posted an update to its support page<\/a>, suggesting that users download E2EE chats and images before it discontinues the feature, <a href=\"https:\/\/piunikaweb.com\/2026\/03\/13\/instagram-to-stop-supporting-end-to-end-encrypted-dms-after-may-8\/\">as spotted earlier by <em>PiunikaWeb<\/em><\/a>. \u201cAnyone who wants to keep messaging with end-to-end encryption can easily do that on WhatsApp,\u201d El-Kassaby Luce adds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/894752\/instagram-end-to-end-encryption\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instagram will no longer support end-to-end encrypted messages starting May 8th. In a statement to The Verge, Meta spokesperson Dina El-Kassaby Luce says the platform is discontinuing the feature because&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo4.dedicatedhost247.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}