{"id":998538,"date":"2026-03-16T11:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998538"},"modified":"2026-03-16T11:09:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T05:39:27","slug":"instagram-is-dropping-end-to-end-encryption-soon-here-are-5-secure-messaging-apps-you-can-use-instead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/16\/instagram-is-dropping-end-to-end-encryption-soon-here-are-5-secure-messaging-apps-you-can-use-instead\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram is dropping end-to-end encryption soon: Here are 5 secure messaging apps you can use instead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs, so we&#8217;re removing this option from Instagram in the coming months. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. &#8220;Very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs, so we&#8217;re removing this option from Instagram in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,4,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-telecom-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}