With today's release of iOS 26.5, Apple has begun rolling out beta support for end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging. As with ...

Google and Apple have started rolling out end-to-end encryption for RCS messages between Android and iPhone devices via the ...

Encrypted RCS messaging has a “beta” label in this release, and Apple says it’s limited to a subset of supported cellular ...

Messaging between blue and green bubbles is getting more secure. With the release of iOS 26.5, end-to-end encrypted RCS ...

After months of buildup, end-to-end encrypted RCS messaging has finally made it to iOS, allowing Android and iPhone users to ...

Massive follower purge: A cleanup of inactive accounts led to steep follower losses for major celebrities, brands, and Instagram's own profile. Privacy rollback: Meta ...

Meta has officially ended end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for Instagram Direct Messages from May 8, reversing a privacy feature ...

As of today, end-to-end encryption for Instagram direct messages is no longer available. DMs that you send to people on ...

Instagram has ceased support for end-to-end encryption in direct messages as of May 8, 2026, discontinuing the feature that ...

Instagram is removing a privacy feature on May 8 that previously prevented the company from reading users’ direct messages, ...

Starting May 8, Instagram will remove encryption from direct messages, allowing Meta to access chats—a move coinciding with ...

Meta said that if users have chats that will be affected by this change, they will get instructions on how to download any ...