--- title: "Meta is Planning End-toEnd Encryption for Messanger" description: "Meta plans end-to-end encryption for Messenger, expanding privacy measures amid growing concerns. Testing continues after technical challenges." author: "Nikhil Tiwari" published: 2023-08-23 updated: 2023-08-23 canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/news/3298/meta-is-planning-end-toend-encryption-for-messanger category: "news" tags: ["whatsapp", "technology", "technology news", "instagram"] reading_time: 3 minutes --- # Meta is Planning End-toEnd Encryption for Messanger Meta announced today that they will make [Messenger](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/50437/how-to-fix-messenger-that-keeps-crashing-or-stops-working-on-your-iphone-x-after-installing-a-new-ios-update) more secure by adding a special lock to protect messages. This means that only the people who send and receive the messages will be able to read them. They are also going to let more people try out this new feature to make sure it works well for everyone. The company has been adding special [protection](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/301143/how-to-wear-knee-braces-for-the-best-protection) to keep messages safe in Messenger for a long time. At first, only some people could use it, but now more and more people can. They started with protecting messages that are like secret conversations in 2016. Then, they added protection for voice and [video calls](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/94532/how-do-you-know-if-a-person-is-chatting-while-on-video-calls-on-whatsapp) in 2021. In January 2022, they made it possible to protect group chats and calls too. And in August 2022, they started testing protection for private chats between just two people. Meta is a company that lets people send messages to each other. Some people want Meta to make it so that nobody can read those messages except for the people sending them. This is because there was a situation where Meta gave someone's messages to the police, and that person got in trouble. This happened after a law about abortion changed. So now, people think it's really important to keep their messages private. ![Meta is Planning End-toEnd Encryption for Messanger](https://www.mindstick.com/usernews/654710/2946e503-a081-458d-9582-b4d8d13337fb/images/52011b6c-91d1-4e51-a2e8-148b91c592d9.jpeg) Meta, the company that owns Instagram, is planning to add a special security feature called end-to-end [encryption](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/1620/encryption-and-decryption-in-asp-dot-net) to [direct messages](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32145/should-i-use-automated-direct-messages-on-twitter) on Instagram. This means that only the people who are sending and receiving the messages will be able to read them, and nobody else. However, the company is [taking longer](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/158093/why-ajax-call-requests-are-taking-longer-time-to-execute) than expected to test this feature because they are facing some [technical](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12830/a-look-at-the-technical-features-and-specifications-of-type-c-hub) difficulties. The company had a hard time adding [safety features](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/86668/a-detailed-safety-features-of-tesla-cars-and-relevancy) to Messenger because they had to change the way things worked and create a new way for people to keep their messages private. They added a special code to make sure only the right people could see their messages. Meta said that they had to fix over 100 things in the Messenger app to make it work with end-to-end encryption. This is something that WhatsApp, another app owned by Meta, has been doing for a while. They are using what they learned from WhatsApp to make Messenger safer. After something bad happened, a lot of groups wrote a letter to Meta and other places asking them to make private chats safer by using special technology. People in charge from different countries are thinking about making new rules that could make it easier for them to see what people are saying in [messaging apps](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/105245/how-to-secure-business-information-on-mobile-messaging-apps). Meta, which owns WhatsApp does not like these rules and is trying to make sure that messages in WhatsApp stay private. But they have not made sure that messages in Messenger and Instagram are private yet. \ --- Original Source: https://www.mindstick.com/news/3298/meta-is-planning-end-toend-encryption-for-messanger Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.