Messenger’s E2EE chats cover your on-line conversations from third events, together with Fb itself. It additionally makes it harder for regulation enforcement and hackers to entry the messages you ship and obtain. WhatsApp already has E2EE by default, and Instagram permits customers to activate E2EE for particular person conversations.
Beforehand, Meta didn’t provide any option to customise encrypted chats. As quickly as you switched to (or entered) a secret chat, all customization choices disappeared and also you have been left chatting on a plain white background. However now that Meta is bringing these customization options to encrypted chats, you may set themes, together with static and gradient colours, to make your conversations look much less boring.
You may even have entry to the total vary of emoji reactions in E2EE chats and might customise the short response tray. Meta provides the power to set group profile pictures, in addition to view lively standing icons and hyperlink previews that present you extra details about the place a hyperlink leads you. When you use Messenger on Android, you may also use the bubble characteristic for E2EE chats, which provides you fast entry to lively conversations if you’re in different apps.
This comes as Meta appears to be like to launch E2EE by default. Whereas Meta began testing E2EE by default final August, it’s now increasing this take a look at to extra customers over the following “few months.” It would not say how many individuals may have entry to it, however the firm says it should notify folks in “particular person chat threads” when their chats are up to date. At present, the choice to allow E2EE on Messenger is buried in every chat’s settings, and it isn’t that straightforward to search out if you do not know the place to look.