Meta will discontinue end-to-end encrypted messaging on Instagram on May 8, 2026. The change will affect private chats, ...

The blue chat bubble means RCS is on, but I'm still waiting on the lock icon that's supposed to follow it.

When Google announced Tuesday that end-to-end encrypted messages were coming to Gmail for business users, some people balked, noting it wasn’t true E2EE as the term is known in privacy and security ...

As of last week, Google Messages indicated that Android-iPhone RCS conversations don’t support end-to-end encryption with a lock icon that features a slash. This is because Google Messages uses its ...

Instagram will remove end-to-end encryption for direct messages between users from May 8, 2026. When the date comes around, Meta will potentially be able to see the contents of all messages between ...

As of today, end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages is no longer available. DMs that you send to people on Instagram will no longer feature full encryption, and your conversations are not ...

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TikTok doesn't encrypt your direct messages like other platforms including Instagram, Messenger, and X, which offer the privacy option. According to a report by the BBC, TikTok will not add end-to-end ...

Apple joined the RCS bandwagon last year, giving its users the ability to exchange rich text messages with their Android counterparts. The only problem? Those messages are not encrypted, exposing them ...

Gmail gets EE2E as it turns 21. The greatest April Fool’s Day joke that never was has to have taken place on April 1, 2004. It was then that Google, without a hint of irony, launched what was to ...

Apple has released the latest iOS 26.5 beta, and it brings a familiar feature to the Messages app as the RCS technology sees the return of end-to-end encryption. Apple Messages' RCS Sees End-to-End ...

Apple announced today it is upgrading iMessage’s security layer to post-quantum cryptography, starting in iOS and iPadOS 17.4, macOS 14.4 and watchOS 10.4. The technology giant said that in the coming ...